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Anchor. The (English) Anchors and Chain Cables Act, 1899 (62 & 63 Vict. c. 23), consolidating, with small amendments, three Acts of 1864, 1871 and 1874, provides that unproved anchors are not to be sold or bought for a British ship, and regulates the made of testing by testing establishments licensed by the Board of Trade. See also (English) Merchant Shipping Act, 1894, ss. 290, 538-40. As to recovering the value of an anchor which has been slipped to avoid a collision, see The Port Victoria, 1902, P. 25....
Sheet anchor
A large anchor stowed on shores outside the waist of a vessel called also waist anchor See the Note under Anchor...
Cable
Cable [fr. cabl, Welsh; cabel, Dut.], the grate rope of a ship, to which the anchor is fastened. The proof and sale of chain cables and anchors, formerly regulated by the (English) Chain Cable and Anchors Acts, 1864, 1871, and 1874 (27 & 28 Vict. c. 27), (34 & 35 Vict. c. 101), and (37 & 38 Vict. c. 51) (see Chitty's Statutes, tit. 'Shipping'), are now regulated by the (English) Consolidating Anchors and Chain Cables Act, 1899 (62 & 63 Vict. c. 23), which simplifies and amends the law by providing more elaborate tests, the Schedule containing which takes the place of Rules of the Board of Trade, by which Board, however, it can be altered from time to time.Means a length of insulated single conductor (solid or stranded or of two or more such conductors, each provided with its own insulation, which are laid up together. Such insulated conductor or conductors may or may not be provided with an overall mechanical protective covering. [Indian Electricity Rules, 1956, R. 2 (1) (g)]...
Disanchor
To raise the anchor of as a ship to weigh anchor...
Killock
A small anchor also a kind of anchor formed by a stone inclosed by pieces of wood fastened together...
Warranty
Warranty, a guarantee or security; formerly a promise or covenant by deed by the bargainer, for himself and his heirs, to warrant and secure the bargainee and his heirs against all persons for the enjoying of the thing granted accompanied by a promise, express or implied, that if eviction should take place, the warrantor would substitute an equivalent estate in its place-see Co. Litt. 365 a. In that form it has been superseded in practice by 3 & 4 Wm. 4, cc. 27 (s. 39) and 74 (s. 14). See RECOVERY.More generally, a warranty is any agreement either accompanying a transfer of property, or collateral to the contract for such transfer, see Lawrence v. Cassell, (1930) 2 KB 83, and Miller v. Cannon Hill Estates Ltd., (1931) 2 KB 113, or to any other agreement or transaction, and in so far as it is a contract a warranty does not differ from any other contractual promise. A warranty may be express or implied by law or statute.For instances of implied warranties, see that title, CAVEAT EMPTOR, ...
Billboard
A piece of thick plank armed with iron plates and fixed on the bow or fore channels of a vessel for the bill or fluke of the anchor to rest on...
Bitts
A frame of two strong timbers fixed perpendicularly in the fore part of a ship on which to fasten the cables as the ship rides at anchor or in warping Other bitts are used for belaying belaying bitts for sustaining the windlass carrick bitts winch bitts or windlass bitts to hold the pawls of the windlass pawl bitts etc...
Boatswain
An officer who has charge of the boats sails rigging colors anchors cables cordage etc of a ship and who also summons the crew and performs other duties...
Buoy
A float esp a floating object moored to the bottom to mark a channel or to point out the position of something beneath the water as an anchor shoal rock etc...
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