Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 March 1893 — Novel Anchors. [ARTICLE]

Novel Anchors.

The British steamer Bnwnmore, now discharging coal at Mission No. 2, has a novelty aboard in the shape of a stockless anchor. In fact she has two of them, and they are hauled up “chock-a-block” to the hawseholes in a way to make a sailor feel like kicking himself for all the risks he has run in the way of catting and fishing anchors in the years gone by. The new anchor has no stock and no flukes. It consists of a heavy semi-circular mass of metal fastened directly testhe chain and furnished with two attachments very similar to the oldtime flukes, but twisted like the flanges of a screw propeller. The anchor can be let go and grounded inside of ten seconds and hoisted in less than half a minute. It will take hold of the hardest bottom, and the anchors, starboard and port, will keep a ship in position in the worst weather.—[San Francisco Call. An aerolite that is said to weieli 40,000 pounds feO near iiminez, to Mexico, tome months a«<a