Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 March 1893 — Boon to Jack. [ARTICLE]

Boon to Jack.

The British steamer Bawnmore, which recently visited an American port, 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 the risks he has run in the way of catting and fishing anchors in years gone by. The new anchor has no stock and no flukes. It consists of a heavy semi-circular mass of metal fastened directly to the chain and furnished with two attachments very similar to the old-time 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 aminute. It will take hold of the hardest bottom, and the anchors, starboard and port, will keep a ship in position in the worst weather.