This length is enough to anchor a ship in 40 fathoms ... it provided over 500 ships for the Royal Navy and each of those ships needed a lot of rope. An 18th century first rate ship of the line ...

Before the invention of anchor chain ships used hemp rope, which often broke and put ... In 1808 Samuel Brown, a Naval Leutenant, fitted out a Navy vessel, the 'Penelope' with chain anchor cables ...

A wild crocodile hitched a ride with a ship - by clinging onto the vessel's anchor. Footage shows the reptile biting the end of the rope while floating through the water at a dock in Bontang on ...