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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SS Tuscania (1921) (section Anchor Line)
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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Dead-end tower (redirect from Long-distance anchor pylon)
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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USAT Burnside (section Blue Anchor Line (1882–1891))
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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