• Anchor Line may refer to: Anchor Line (riverboat company), a Mississippi steamer service from 1859 to 1898 Anchor Line (steamship company), a transatlantic...
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    An anchor is a device, normally made of metal, used to secure a vessel to the bed of a body of water to prevent the craft from drifting due to wind or...
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    Anchor Line was a Scottish merchant shipping company that was founded in 1855 and dissolved in 1980. The Anchor Line shipping company grew from small beginnings...
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    Blue Anchor Line was a British shipping company operating between the United Kingdom, South Africa and Australia between 1870 and 1910. The owners of...
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    launched on 4 October 1921 for the Anchor Line. During the First World War, several large liners of Glasgow-based Anchor Line (Henderson Bros) Ltd were lost...
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    A sea anchor (also known as a parachute anchor, drift anchor, drift sock, para-anchor or boat brake) is a device that is streamed from a boat in heavy...
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    The Anchor Line was a steamboat company that operated a fleet of boats on the Mississippi River between St. Louis, Missouri, and New Orleans, Louisiana...
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    Waratah was a passenger and cargo steamship built in 1908 for the Blue Anchor Line to operate between Europe and Australia. In July 1909, on only her second...
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  • Both numeric and non-numeric anchoring have been reported in research. In numeric anchoring, once the value of the anchor is set, subsequent arguments...
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    North American, Australian and New Zealand retail, an "anchor tenant", sometimes called an "anchor store", "draw tenant", or "key tenant", is a considerably...
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    such as a ship's anchor or a fishing trawl. On some ships, it may be located in a specific room called the windlass room. An anchor windlass is a machine...
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  • The following is a list of ships operated by the Cunard Line. The Cunard fleet, all built for Cunard unless otherwise indicated, consisted of the following...
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    Herald, 17 November 1903 History of the Anchor Line 1852–1911. 1911. Glasgow, UK: John Horn, for Anchor Line. Kassir, Samir (2011) [2010]. Beirut. Translated...
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    of the anchor cable, secured by the anchor bitts and the bitter pin in the cable locker under the forecastle. At anchor, the more anchor line that is...
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    which was built in 1920 by William Beardmore & Co Ltd, Dalmuir for the Anchor Line. She was requisitioned for use as a troopship in the Second World War...
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  • Look up anchor in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. An anchor is a device that attaches to the sea bottom to prevent a boat from drifting. Anchor may also...
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    Mooring (redirect from Mooring (anchoring))
    jetties, piers, anchor buoys, and mooring buoys. A ship is secured to a mooring to forestall free movement of the ship on the water. An anchor mooring fixes...
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  • Mary Dagen McDowell (born January 7, 1969) is an American anchor and co-host of The Bottom Line on Fox Business as well as a commentator and guest host...
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    A dead-end tower (also anchor tower, anchor pylon) is a fully self-supporting structure used in construction of overhead power lines. A dead-end transmission...
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    concluded the following: the anchor line was tied to the port-side transom as part of a (mistaken) plan to free the anchor; the vessel, which had a 200...
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    sail to steam. The Anchor Line managed her on various routes until 1900. She was scrapped in 1902. The completion of the Guion Line's Arizona in 1879 forced...
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    The Anchor Shipping and Foundry Company linked Nelson with other parts of New Zealand from 1870 to 1974. The company's former office remains on the quay...
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    Packetfahrt-Actien-Gesellschaft (HAPAG), known in English as the Hamburg America Line, was a transatlantic shipping enterprise established in Hamburg, in 1847...
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    Yeoman was ordered by Wilhelm Lund for his steamship company, the Blue Anchor Line. She was built by Campbell, Macintosh, and Bowstead at the Scotswood...
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  • HMT Ballarat, built for P&O in 1911 to expand its Blue Anchor Line subsidiary. Requisitioned as a troopship in the First World War. On 25 April 1917 a...
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  • joining FNC she worked as an anchor/reporter for WFXT (Channel 25), a Boston affiliate (Dec 2002-Dec 2005). While at WFXT, Line covered the sentencing of...
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    Commercial Review, Volume 10. New York City. p. 383. Anchor Line (1872). A Souvenir of the Anchor Line Agents Excursion on the Steamer California, 14 August...
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    Offshore embedded anchors are anchors intended for offshore use that derive their holding capacity from the frictional, or bearing, resistance of the...
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    built in Sunderland, England in 1898 for the Blue Anchor Line. P&O took over the Blue Anchor Line in 1910 and sold Wakool in 1913 to Japanese buyers...
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    The Anchor Bar is a bar and restaurant in Buffalo, New York, located north of Downtown Buffalo at the intersection of Main and North Streets. The restaurant...
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