Anchors - Havre de Grace, MD
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bluesnote
N 39° 32.434 W 076° 05.174
18S E 406659 N 4377330
Two anchors located next to the Maritime Museum.
Waymark Code: WMYEZ7
Location: Maryland, United States
Date Posted: 06/07/2018
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The plaque says, "An anchor is used to hold a boat or other floating object in position, and prevent it from drifting. Ancient anchors were simply a heavy rock dropped into the water at the end of a rope tied to the boat. Since the 19th century, anchors have been made of iron or steel, and shaped in various ways to hook into the bottom with a broad blade, called a fluke. These anchors are typical of ones used on sailing scows and skipjacks one hundred years ago."
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