adrag

Updated: May 20, 2025

The chief object thus accomplished, we succeeded in dropping out with the ebb-tide, now rapidly running, and were enabled to steady our course stern-foremost with the stream anchor adrag, whereby we reached our former position."

H. R. Fox (Henry Richard Fox) Bourne - The Life of Thomas, Lord Cochrane, Tenth Earl of Dundonald, G.C.B., Admiral of the Red, Rear-Admiral of the Fleet, Etc., Etc. : Vol. I

The reply being "an English vessel," satisfied them, so that our investigation was made unmolested. The chief object thus accomplished, we succeeded in dropping out with the ebb tide, now rapidly running, and were enabled to steady our course stern-foremost with the stream anchor adrag, whereby we reached our former position off the mouth of the river.

Earl of Thomas Cochrane Dundonald - Narrative of Services in the Liberation of Chili, Peru and Brazil,: from Spanish and Portuguese Domination, Volume 2