The anchor and chain system aboard the USS Ford is very, very heavy. The anchor itself weighs 30,000 pounds. The chain is 1,440 feet long and each link weighs 136 pounds.

Norfolk Naval Shipyard is the Navy’s “center of excellence” for anchor chain repairs, and handles that work for ships across the fleet. When the Stennis shots arrived, learning how to handle ...

Before the invention of anchor chain ships used hemp rope, which often broke and put lives in danger.As the size of ships increased hemp rope anchor cables were not strong enough, and in hot ...

An anchor and chain believed to be from a Canadian naval ship damaged in the Halifax Explosion were recently discovered in Halifax. The roughly 900-kilogram anchor was unearthed on Oct. 14 by an ...