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Photographer: Christopher Light
Taken: July 17, 2009
Caption: Modern Ship Anchor Plaque
Additional Description: This Navy-style stockless anchor is the type used on all modern ships and, at 3 tons, it is typical of those carried on 8 - 10,000 ton freighters. A usual rule of thumb provides that a vessel's anchor chain should be three times the depth of the water in which she is anchored: this chain usually weighs about 100 pounds per foot. Provided by the Army Corps of Engineers.
Submitted: July 23, 2009, by Christopher Light of Valparaiso, Indiana.
Database Locator Identification Number: p71981
File Size: 0.104 Megabytes

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