ship anchor in a sentence
1) When the ships cast anchor , the sails are left standing in the wind.
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2) The accidents arising from ships' anchors all took place between Jersey and Guernsey.
3) When he was found, he had a ship's anchor tied around his legs.
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4) Lara spots the BLOCK AND TACKLE supporting the ship's anchor above the deck.5) The ship's starboard anchor (one of six she carried) was raised on March 15.
6) Unfortunately, the weather and ships' anchors conspired to render them inoperative much of the time.
7) He then sent divers to cut the cables of the ship's anchor , but this was also unsuccessful.
8) Three cables, therefore, had been already destroyed, partly by ships' anchors , and partly by corrosion.
9) The anchor escapement was so named because one of its principal parts is shaped vaguely like a ship's anchor .
10) Here we see that, without a doubt, the ship's anchors were dropped into the sea and abandoned.
11) One of the ship's anchors is incorporated into a memorial to naval aviation at Nowra, New South Wales.
12) The Northwestern's crew attempted to retrieve the ship's anchor after it snapped off in a storm the night before.
13) It has also been broken three times off the coast of Jersey, from having been accidentally caught by ships' anchors .
14) The ship's anchor was hurled several miles away, where it was discovered embedded in the ground at the PanAmerican refinery.
15) Having already laid a cable between Gibraltar and Algiers, Mirror had to do it all again when the cable was fouled by a number of ships anchors during a storm.
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16) So on, until the cable rattles over the windlass, as the good ship's anchor plunges down fathoms deep into the blue waters of the Bosphorus - her voyage ended.17) Thirty-five miles were wrapped with iron wires to protect the fragile core from the perils of ships' anchors and abrasion in the shallow waters close to either end.
18) The duration of that cable was mainly owing to its having been deposited upon a sandy bottom, devoid of rocks, where no ships' anchors could touch it.
19) Dec. 20th. 1886 Arrived in Colombo, passage 107 days from Penarth, Pilot came aboard (drunk) and moored the ship on top of another ship's anchor .
20) He decided to have his ships drop anchor and enter the river in skiffs, in search of the great city of Indians described by Juan de Grijalva.
21) The horses are too small for the riders, and the chain by which the dog is held is "big enough for a ship's anchor ".
22) Although initially slated to depart on 10 August 1969, the loss of the ship's stern anchor forced a delay of one full day.
23) The ship anchor and oars are the Coat of Arms from 9E's original parent unit, the 2nd Battalion Mounted Engineers.
24) Porthcurno was chosen in preference to the busy port of Falmouth because of the reduced risk of damage to the cables caused by ships' anchors .
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