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lEI Ground Tackle and Deck Equipment
Deck equipment consists of all equipment used in deck seaman- other chain parts. It also includes the anchor windlass, the machin-
ship. This equipment is normally operated by the deck force. The e!'}' used to lift, or weigh, the anchor and its cable.
anchors and chains and all equipment associated with anchor- Betore the development of anchor chain, anchors were raised
ing are fundamental to the business of deck seamanship; thc}' are and lowered by fiber hawsers and wire ropes. Thus, the large pipe
called groll/llilackle. Other deck equipment has to do with moor- through which the cable passes from the deck to the ship's side
ing the ship, including the deck fittings to which lines ilre mnde received its name: hnll'sepipe. This is not to be confused with the
fast. A third major group of deck equipment is the rigging and elwin pipe through which the chain runs from the windlass down
booms, which are lIsed to hnndle cargo. into the chnil/locker.
This chnpter will discuss some of the basic information abollt
these 1110St important equipments. Difterent size ships will have
Anchors
different size equipnlents, but all ships have this basic gcar.
Anchors used by the Navy today are grouped into four types: the
patent or stockless anchors. the mushroom anchor, the lightweight
Ground Tackle type anchor, and the two-nuke, balanced-nuke anchor.
Ground tackle is the equipment llsed in anchoring and mooring
with anchors. It includes anchors, anchor cables and chains, and
all chain cable parts sllch as chain stoppers, shackles, detachable
RING
chain links, mooring swi\'els, and the tools lIsed to work this and
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STANDARD STOCKLESS LIGHTWEIGHT TYPE (LWT)
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TWO· FLUKE, BALANCED-FLUKE
MUSHROOM ANCHOR
The ground tackle in the forecastle of a typical ship. The four major types of anchors used by U.S. naval ships.
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