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 ANCHOR:
• An anchor is a device, normally made of
metal, used to connect a vessel to
the bed of a body of water to prevent the
craft from drifting due to wind or current.
• Anchors can either be temporary or
permanent. Permanent anchors are used in
the creation of a mooring, and are rarely
moved; a specialist service is normally
needed to move or maintain them. Vessels
carry one or more temporary anchors,
which may be of different designs and
weights.
TYPES OF ANCHOR – STOCK AND
STOCKLESS ANCHOR
Profile view forecastle
 NUMBER OF ANCHORS CARRIED IN
SHIPS
• Most ships have two anchors, one on the port bow and
one on the starboard bow. The resons for this are:
• Depending on the current and wind direction the
vessel may have a tendency to fall off course to one
side of the other and trip over chain and do damage to
the bow (particularly if the ship is equipped with a
bulbous bow) .
• An anchor is considered essential safety equipment…
and most safety systems aboard ship are required to be
redundant (i.e. have two independent systems).
 NUMBER OF ANCHORS CARRIED IN
SHIPS
• If the brake fails when setting the anchor you could possibly
loose it. You could also potentially entangle an anchor
around an obstruction on the sea floor. In this case it’s a
good idea to have a spare.
• Some docking situations (Lookup “Med Mooring”) require
the use of anchors and one side maybe proffered.
• Few ships carry a third “spare” anchor because anchors are
very large and heavy and would be very difficult to replace
at sea.
• Very few ships have a third anchor mounted at the stern…
which they may use for some special operations or special
docking situation.
 ANCHOR CERTIFICATE
• Length of shank in millimetres.
• Length of arm in millimetres.
• Diameter of trend in millimetres.
• Proof load applied in tonnes.
• Identification of proving house, official mark and
government mark.
• Number of test certificate.
• Number of tensile test machine.
• Year of licence.
• Weight of the head of the anchor.
• Number and date of drop test.
• Name of supervisor of tests and signature