called the windlass room. An anchor windlass is a machine that restrains and manipulates the anchor chain on a boat, allowing the anchor to be raised...

The windlass /ˈwɪndləs/ is an apparatus for moving heavy weights. Typically, a windlass consists of a horizontal cylinder (barrel), which is rotated by...

counterclockwise. One form of capstan was connected by a shaft and gears to an anchor windlass on the deck below. On riverine vessels, the capstan was sometimes cranked...

beginning to drift back. The anchor should initially be lowered quickly but under control until it is on the bottom (see anchor windlass). The vessel should continue...

mountain using a complex system of pulleys and aided by the ship's anchor windlass. The crew falls asleep after a drunken celebration, and the chief of...

mounted in tabernacles so they can be lowered to pass under bridges; the anchor windlass is used to lower and raise the gear via triple blocks. This takes considerable...

quarters as in the past, and may contain essential machinery such as the anchor windlass. A disadvantage of such a design is the structural weakness at the...

v t e Parts of a sailing ship Aftercastle Afterdeck Anchor Anchor windlass Apparent wind indicator Beakhead Bilge Bilgeboard Bitts Boom brake Bow or prow...

being widened at their pivot for anchoring and narrow at their tip. Anchor windlass A pawl is used in an anchor windlass to prevent a free-spooling chain...

as dropping the anchor in position, the longboat would often be used for weighing (raising) the anchor after use. To do this, a windlass was usually fitted...

Cruikshank 1856, p. 46. Hanrahan 2011, p. 191. "Edwin Fox Hull and Anchor Windlass". Heritage New Zealand. Hanrahan 2011, p. 199. "Convicts and the British...

v t e Parts of a sailing ship Aftercastle Afterdeck Anchor Anchor windlass Apparent wind indicator Beakhead Bilge Bilgeboard Bitts Boom brake Bow or prow...

v t e Parts of a sailing ship Aftercastle Afterdeck Anchor Anchor windlass Apparent wind indicator Beakhead Bilge Bilgeboard Bitts Boom brake Bow or prow...

capacity. As steam was still required to operate deck winches and the anchor windlass, a vapour steam generator, similar to those used on railway locomotives...

an anvil, hammer and wheel, and in the upper right-hand corner an anchor, windlass and oars. Under the shield, in black letters, shall be placed the words...

v t e Parts of a sailing ship Aftercastle Afterdeck Anchor Anchor windlass Apparent wind indicator Beakhead Bilge Bilgeboard Bitts Boom brake Bow or prow...

of the programming language Lucid Gypsy, the wheel on a windlass, typically an anchor windlass, that engages the chain being pulled Austin Gipsy, a British...

air compressor. To prevent water from being taken into the anchor windlass room, the anchor winch, hydraulic unit, and mooring capstan were replaced with...

and keep the deck dry, the ballast was concentrated midships, and anchor windlass and chain placed aft of the mast. The rig was ketch (two mast) with...

in a large vertical post called the "samson post", upon which the anchor windlass was also typically mounted. The hawsepieces projected above the deck...

iron cross-bracings on each side. Wyoming was equipped with a Hyde anchor windlass and a donkey steam engine to raise and lower sails, haul lines and...

mooring winches and two combined electrically driven anchor windlasses for raising and lowering the anchor and its 142-millimetre (5.6 in) caliber chain. Power...

the explosion of the bomb damaged the deck of the forecastle and the anchor windlass beyond repair and ignited a nearby fighter. Three of Natoma Bay's crew...

an item fast Dog, a form of pawl used to secure a chain, as on an anchor windlass Dog clutch, a clutch that couples two rotating shafts or components...

ammunition manufacturers Wildcat, a sprocketed wheel for an anchor chain; see anchor windlass Wildcat! Wildcat!, an American band Wild Cat (disambiguation)...

ship's anchor-cable and windlass. This was a square pin thrust into one of the handspike holes of a ship's windlass. When at anchor, the anchor rope (called...

He is said to be usually sitting under the capstan (Ankerwinde, "anchor windlass"). But he makes himself useful to the needs of the ship when in disrepair...

v t e Parts of a sailing ship Aftercastle Afterdeck Anchor Anchor windlass Apparent wind indicator Beakhead Bilge Bilgeboard Bitts Boom brake Bow or prow...

v t e Parts of a sailing ship Aftercastle Afterdeck Anchor Anchor windlass Apparent wind indicator Beakhead Bilge Bilgeboard Bitts Boom brake Bow or prow...

while the Hyde Street Pier is being replaced. View aft from foredeck Anchor windlass in forecastle Bow and foremast, January 15, 2012 Stern and mizzenmast...