BLUEMOMENT

Whilst in Lossiemouth in early August, a fishing boat came in with an anchor which he'd dragged up in his nets. They had to get a crane to get it ashore! See below -








Made a hell of a mess of his nets. The Harbourmaster thought it was possibly from a RN ship, as apparently they used to drop the hook off Lossie before going into Invergordon to refuel. this would have been sometime around the time of the last war.

I doubt if even Puddock could have retrieved this one by hand!

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The Hall anchor looks to me like it would only work in giant sizes but you can get tiny ones too so I suppose they must work after a fashion. You never hear anyone arguing their merits in yotty sizes though. I had thought of getting a tiny one for the dinghy but went for the traditional folding grapnel instead.

The shank seems very clean for a WW2 anchor. Most of the stuff I see that has been underwater for 50+ years is covered in growth and concretions. Newer?

Alcyone wrote:The shank seems very clean for a WW2 anchor. Most of the stuff I see that has been underwater for 50+ years is covered in growth and concretions. Newer?

Could be newer, who knows. Also depends on how far along the sea bed it was dragged in the nets, which could have scrubbed off any growth.

All I know is that it was an effin' big barsteward ! ! !

I am pretty sure some off the smaller (older) oil supply ships use a similar anchor. I'll get my camera out and have a walk around.............