ACCIDENTS 329
21. One of your bower anchors is damaged. How could you replace it
with the spare one?
Lower the damaged one down until it is just clear of the hawse
pipe. If no crane on the forecastle-head I should use No. 1 derrick
and winch for handling it. Overhaul the wire along outside clear
of everything and shackle it on to the ring Have steam on the windlass.
Heave away on the wire (see the derrick is properly guyed) and walk
back the windlass. Light up the weight of the cable if necessary.
Get the anchor in on the foredeck or forecastle-head. Put a lashing
on the cable to prevent the end running away. Unshackle it from the
damaged anchor and put it on to the spare bower. Shift your derrick
wire on to the spare bower. Come up the clamps and lashings securing
it on its bed. Don't forget the lashing on the cable.
Take the weight on the derrick and guy it out to the side as required.
Come back gently on the winch and heave the cable slowly in with the
windlass until the anchor is under the hawsepipe. Unshackle the
derrick wire, heave the anchor up into the pipe and secure it.
If the combined weight of the anchor and cable is too much for the
wire, I should hang a block at the derrick head and reeve off a purchase
which would be suitable for the job. A wire pendant might come in
useful if the drift was a long one; or:—
Lift the damaged anchor on to the deck without the cable. Hang
the anchor off under the hawsepipe and unshackle the cable. Beeve
a good wire out through the hawsepipe to take the place of the cable.
Lead it to a winch. Take the weight of the anchor on your derrick
and hawsepipe wires. Cast adrift the lashing with which you hung
off the anchor. Slack away your hawsepipe wire and heave the anchor
up on to the deck with the derrick wire.
Get the spare bower down under the hawsepipe with the same two
wires. Shackle the cable on. Get the wires adrift from the anchor.
Heave it up into the pipe and secure it.
22. You come across a steamer which has lost her rudder. How would
you assist her into port?
Manoeuvre into a position astern of her. Take two good wire
hawsers, one from each of her quarters, and make them securely fast
on my forecastle-head. Shackle them on to my cables if I expected
bad weather so that there shall be some spring in them.
Let her go ahead of me, making the best speed she can under the