Begint een mooi model te worden !
Vind alleen de ankers een beetje aan de lompe/grove kant. Ik zou ze persoonlijk iets gaan bij werken
zie onderstaande foto’s
Daar zijn duidelijk de originele ankers van de Beagle te zien.
Maar jij bent natuurlijk de baas van je eigen schip,
een interessant weetje misschien over de ankers van de Beagle
The Beagle apparently had nearly twice as many anchors on board as a typical ship of its size. Presumably this was based on FitzRoy’s prudent planning – knowing full well the potential for the loss of an anchor in uncharted waters, and the need to be prepared for different sorts of conditions. Paperwork suggests that the Beagle had the following anchors on board when leaving Plymouth at the end of last year:
- 5 – 14cwt bowers (These are the main anchors – usually found at the bow of the ship.)
- 2 – 7cwt stream anchors (These are medium-sized anchors used to help stabilize the ship in tidal regions or river channels.)
- 4 – 3 cwt kedge anchors (These are light anchors usually used for helping to turn the ship while it is moving – a technique called “kedging”.)
- There was also a combined 1100 fathoms – 6600 feet or roughly 2 km – of chains and cables to be used with the anchors.
Anchors are measured in “hundredweight” or cwt. One cwt equals 100 pounds, meaning the Beagle‘s anchors each weighed from 1400 to 300 pounds. Combined they would have weighed 9600 pounds or almost 5 tons.
Weight alone is not enough to hold a big ship on place though. The anchors on the Beagle would have also have been “hooked”, allowing them to become embedded into the sea floor (think of the classic anchor shape). It appears that the loss of the anchor on this day in 1832 resulted from the flue (“hook”) getting stuck in the bottom.