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Not able to do much on my Victory build at the moment but I have been doing some reference work. I don't recollect seeing the attached picture elsewhere in the forum but it shows the anchor construction well. According to the Memorials in Portsmouth site both the woodwork and metalwork have been replaced over the years but it's still classed as original by most people - a bit like Triggers Broom! The site says it's now more like a replica. Hope it's useful. Regards Gary Garfield59 attached the following image(s):
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Haven't seen this one before either Gary, nice find and thanks for sharing.
Regards
Alan
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Thanks Alan. It does show the circular cross section and the square section where it passes between the two halves of the stock. I think this was one of the last Admiralty pattern anchors with a stock. Later ones were of course stockless so that they could be drawn up into the hawse pipes.
Looks like I'm gonna be attacking the square anchor shaft with a file to make it circular.
Gary
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Well I'm glad I haven't had time to modify the anchor to a circular cross section because it would have been wrong!
Doing some more reading on the subject of anchors, I came across a document entitled
"The History and Development of English Anchors CA 1550 to 1850 - a thesis by Harold James Williamson Jobling."
A very interesting read with some interesting references and lots of info on the changes in anchors over 300 years.
The new reference suggests that the cross section was not circular but a smaller square section with the corners removed so effectively an octagonal section. This seems to align with comments by Jase in a much earlier post several years ago.
The document is available as a pdf through Google and is well worth a read.
Regards
Gary
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This is how McGowan reflected the anchor in his book..Tomick attached the following image(s):
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