Mystery anchor

[Poignard]

a) What type of anchor is this?

b) Where was it photographed?

 

[Little Five]

a) What type of anchor is this?

b) Where was it photographed?

It's the new rocna

 

[sailorman]

a) What type of anchor is this?

b) Where was it photographed?

looks like an early Egyptian bronze Snurble thrib gribley Mk11 with fixed eye

 

[DanTribe]

Looks more like a bit of freemasonry regalia.

 

[armchairsailor]

Looks like someone lost an earring...

 

[AndrewB]

Reminds me of the 'Wing' anchor that was marketed about 40 years ago. When you dropped it overboard, it was supposed to go down more horizontally than vertically, spinning like a sycamore seed, purportedly so you didn't have to fall back on it to set it. Claimed that if correctly dropped, it would go 5ft forwards for every 1 ft it sank.

The YM reviewer described it as the most useless anchor ever. Management waited with bated breath for the summons ....

 

[sarabande]

It's a classical puny Hermit design; that is to say an *nch*r*t*.



Probably at some exhibition ?

 

[Poignard]

Well I have no idea what type it is (or even if it is any type at all) but here is a picture showing the windlass associated with it.

This may give a clue as to where I saw it.

 

[ianat182]

Is it one of the anchors used when they install the wind generator bases to hold them in position by the 'mothership' vessel. Saw a programme on the QUEST channel a while ago where they were doing this job.

ianat182

 

[sarabande]

Greenwich, or the Discovery Museum in Newcastle ?

 

[Scotty_Tradewind]

museum down the Medina?

 

[Boathook]

Falmouth.

 

[Ricd]

Gosport?

 

[Poignard]

Clue:

The photo was taken in a former railway station

 

[Porthandbuoy]

The anchor off an early submarine?

Though why that would have anything to do with a railway staion I have no idea?

 

[Poignard]

The anchor off an early submarine?

Yes

 

[Porthandbuoy]

Good grief!

 

[sarabande]

Confederate ?

 

[Rigger Mortice]

Gare Maritime de Cherbourg?

 

[Poignard]

Gare Maritime de Cherbourg?

Give that gentleman a coconut!