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3. Suppose you could not get her off by this means, what would
happen7
1 should carry out my spare bower anchor, also one of my other
bower anchors if necessary, and try to heave her off with them, of course,
also using my engines and ballast tanks.
4:. Are you running any particular risk by using your engines in this
case?
There is the possibility in the shallow water of mud or sand or
weed being drawn into the condenser tubes and thus temporarilv
disabling the engines. If I had two inlet pipes leading to the condenser
should use the upper one as being less likely to get choked. Should
also protect the inlet valve with a wire guard or some other arrangement
if possible.
5. How would you carry a bower anchor out?
Between two boats. Lay a kedge and guess warp out in a position
suitable for heaving out the boats carrying the bower anchor.
Shackle a good wire on to the spare bower, and lower it over the
side with one of the forward derricks until the shackle is 3 feet or so
above the water level. Bring the two boats along one on each side of it.
Make a good spar well fast across the four gunwales about the middle
of their length. Lash the shackle of the anchor to the spar making
sure that the wire will be underneath the spar when the anchor is dropped.
Ease the weight gradually from the derrick on to the spar and unhook
or unshackle the anchor from the derrick.
Heave the boats out with the guess warp, paying the wire out from
on board the ship. When in the right position cut the lashing and
let go the anchor. Heave the boats back with a line also paid out
from the ship as the boats went away. If the kedge was not requires
any more, pick it up and bring it back with me.
6. If the anchor was an ^old-fashioned one with a stock, would you
carry it out in the same way?
Yes. I should, however, have the boats far enough apart to give
clearance to the stock or be careful to hang the anchor low enough
for the* stock to be below the keels of the boats on account of possibb
damage if it swung round.