And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Looks like the anchor ring at the top of the anchor shaft had broken. Had to be a sad day for the sailor who weighed anchor and found out it was lost on the bottom of the sea.
...and would not have wanted to be around for the weather that washed it ashore...
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ReplyDeleteGoing to e a tough one to pick up and carry home...
ReplyDeleteSome of these were 8 ft long.
ReplyDeleteI guess you can 'weigh anchor'. I heard sailors talk about that in the movies.
ReplyDeleteLooks like the anchor ring at the top of the anchor shaft had broken. Had to be a sad day for the sailor who weighed anchor and found out it was lost on the bottom of the sea.
ReplyDeleteIt looks like it wore thru, not broke. Poor maintenance. Not used often, I suspect.
DeleteIt weighs a shipload!
ReplyDeleteNeed banana for scale.
ReplyDeleteWhat's a henway?
DeleteA door for chickens
DeleteYou weigh anchor! Not weighs anchor!
ReplyDeleteIn Russia, anchor weighs you.
ReplyDeletelooks as if the kelp floated it, can't weigh a whole lot then...
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