Heavy building materials were attached to a rope wound round the axle of the windlass, and then lifted by a person getting inside and treading the wheel around. The wheel was installed as high up ...

In 1967, it was finally sold for scrap and was to be towed to Europe. On Nov. 5, nearly 54 years to the day it ran aground on ...

In pulling stakes the lever is commonly used, although a Spanish windlass can be operated by one person, and is very sure to perform the work satisfactorily. The windlass may be made of a round ...

the windlass, and tied my feet, while the other flogged me severely. I had never experienced anything of this kind before, and, although not being used to the water, I naturally feared that ...

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I have seen at first hand the effort, cost and skill needed to have your glassfibre hull cut and polished by a professional, ...

Windlass Court is within walking distance of Cambridge Heath BR and a short distance from Bethnal Green Tube and Broadway ...

anchor windlass, and a Type III gravity lowered strongback davit for the LSD (CV) 52 cargo variant dock landing ship. Lake Shore has been the sole supplier of deck machinery since the inception of ...

More on that later. The immediate drama at hand is that the anchor is stuck on the ocean floor because of a broken windlass. They can’t take the guests back to port in the tender because Iain ...

The delayed ship was seen undergoing last minute trials earlier this week (Image: George Munro) And shipyard bosses were ...

Talking about the investment, Prachi Windlass, Director for Michael & Susan Dell Foundation’s India Education portfolio said, “Unlike most EdTech companies that are spending all their time ...

As such, Anegada attracts many divers and snorkelers. Remote beaches, including Cow Wreck Beach, Flash of Beauty, Bones Bight and Windlass Bight, are strewn throughout the island and accessible by ...