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    or bower anchors, and usually stowed aft. Every yacht should carry at least two anchors – the main or bower anchor and a second lighter kedge anchor.[clarification...
    57 KB (7,902 words) - 17:35, 21 October 2024
  • Look up Bower or bower in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Bower may refer to: Catherine, or The Bower, an unfinished Jane Austen novel A high-ranking...
    2 KB (336 words) - 13:24, 2 December 2023
  • Thumbnail for HMS Investigator Anchors
    Australis included five bower, two stream and two kedge anchors. An additional bower anchor was included in stores sent to Port Jackson. Investigator...
    15 KB (1,869 words) - 17:22, 17 November 2024
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    on 19 January, with the best bower anchor sent to the South Australian Maritime Museum in Adelaide and the stream anchor sent to the National Museum of...
    9 KB (709 words) - 04:43, 10 February 2024
  • Thumbnail for HMS Endeavour
    12 June, the longboat carried out two large bower anchors, and block and tackle were rigged to the anchor chains to allow another attempt on the evening...
    73 KB (8,315 words) - 19:23, 16 October 2024
  • Bower Place (also known as Bower Place Shopping Centre) is a shopping centre located in Red Deer, Alberta, Canada. It has more than 110 stores and services...
    3 KB (215 words) - 17:04, 29 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for HMS Colossus (1787)
    Captain Murray did, however, hand over to Nelson three of his guns and one bower anchor. This was done as Colossus had been ordered home to England, whereas...
    16 KB (1,889 words) - 22:05, 31 August 2024
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    by the National Maritime Museum. The anchor is one of only three known surviving bower anchors (the main anchors) from the "Sirius". The other two are...
    83 KB (11,969 words) - 21:23, 8 January 2024
  • " An indeterminate time later, two members of the flight crew, Corporal Bower and Lieutenant Payton, awaken. Improper emergence from the hibernatory state...
    19 KB (1,971 words) - 20:04, 11 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for HDMS Lougen (1791)
    the bower anchor. (Perkins reported that it was the first shot from Lougen that loosed the bower anchor.) Arab's crew was unable to cut the anchor free...
    9 KB (853 words) - 22:56, 3 July 2024
  • best bower anchor was broken by the shocks and strains caused by the gale, and the small bower could not hold the ship alone. The sheet anchor was immediately...
    39 KB (4,217 words) - 17:07, 3 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for John Perkins (Royal Navy officer)
    the bower anchor. (Perkins reported that it was the first shot from Lougen that loosed the bower anchor.) Arab's crew was unable to cut the anchor free...
    27 KB (3,441 words) - 10:43, 15 November 2024
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    Clematis (redirect from Virgin's-bower)
    sole British native, C. vitalba, by the herbalist John Gerard; virgin's bower for C. terniflora, C. virginiana, and C. viticella; old man's beard, applied...
    40 KB (4,198 words) - 23:05, 30 October 2024
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    Ankers Bower (also Anker's Bower, Ankers' Bower, Ankersbower, or Anchor's Bower) is a townland and hill in St. Mary's civil parish in the barony of Brawny...
    7 KB (549 words) - 18:03, 3 January 2024
  • Thumbnail for HMS Arab (1798)
    the bower anchor. (Perkin's reported that it was the first shot from Lougen that loosed the bower anchor.) Arab's crew was unable to cut the anchor free...
    25 KB (3,087 words) - 21:38, 28 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for HMS Investigator (1801)
    Western Australia. The best bower anchor is on display at the South Australian Maritime Museum while the stream anchor can be seen at the National Museum...
    20 KB (2,070 words) - 17:25, 17 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for HMS Siren (1773)
    Newport, Rhode Island on 24 July 1815. She had retrieved Syren's best bower anchor and a quantity of iron knees. Spelling during the period was not fixed...
    5 KB (389 words) - 16:17, 6 November 2024
  • recovery of the anchors and their connection to the voyage of HMS Investigator is commemorated in the inclusion of the best bower anchor and the outline...
    29 KB (3,384 words) - 17:26, 17 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for RMS Lusitania
    fitted with equipment weighed about 16,000 tons. The ship's stockless bower anchors weighed 101⁄4 tons, attached to 125 ton, 330 fathom chains all manufactured...
    123 KB (14,467 words) - 00:26, 9 November 2024
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    Turkish screw-steamer Babel, which rendered assistance in laying out a bower anchor for the Lord Clyde to heave off with. The Raby Castle is seen lying beyond...
    14 KB (1,655 words) - 14:56, 21 October 2024
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