Mounted on the bow below the 3"/50 gun tub is the anchor windlass, used to pull the 5 ton
anchors from the sea depths to their resting place against the bow of the ship. The anchor chain is fed
into a chain locker beneath the windlass.
Lane Victory has an
electric-motor-driven, horizontal-shaft type anchor windlass on the
forecastle deck. Manufactured by the Hesse-Ersted Iron Works of Portland,
Oregon, the windlass is capable of raising two anchors simultaneously from a
30-fathom depth of water at a chain speed of 30 feet per minute. The
windlass motor, an Allis-Chambers compound wound type, is rated at 60-h.p.,
230-volts, 226-amps, and 600-r.p.m. Warping heads on the wildcat shaft of
the windlass provide the facilities for handling mooring lines. [8]
Lane
Victory's ground tackle includes two 9,500-lb. cast-steel best bowers,
stowed in the hawsepipes, and one 3,420-lb. stream anchor stowed on the main
deck aft.
The anchors were manufactured by the Columbia Steel Co. of
Pittsburg, California. The anchor chain is 300 fathoms of 2-1/8-inch
diameter stud-link cast steel chain, manufactured by the Pacific Chain &
Manufacturing Company of Portland, Oregon, in two lengths;
other lines
include a 90-fathom, 1-1/2-inch diameter wire rope stream line; a
130-fathom, 1-3/4-inch diameter wire rope towline; two 73-fathom l-inch
diameter wire rope hawsers; two 73-fathom wire rope warps; and two 73-fathom
lengths of 8-inch sisal rope. All of the wire ropes are mounted on reels
located on the weather deck. [9]
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