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Updated: June 14, 2025
Down went the anchor to the music of the rattling chain-cable a sound which had not been heard since the good ship left the shores of Old England. "If we were only a few yards farther in, sir," remarked the first-mate, "we should be better. I'm afraid of the stream of ice coming round yonder point."
It began with the erection of flagstaffs, as appurtenances to public-houses; then came slop-sellers' shops, with Guernsey shirts, sou'wester hats, and canvas pantaloons, at once the tightest and the loosest of their order, hanging up outside. These were succeeded by anchor and chain-cable forges, where sledgehammers were dinging upon iron all day long.
This showed us how the chain-cable of a ship at anchor might be cut; while a torpedo boat might dash in, as she was drifting away with the tide and the attention of her officers was engaged, to blow her up. The chief experiments of the day were still to come off. We saw a number of buoys floating in various directions some way up the harbour.
He had every requisite for his situation: his nerves were like a chain-cable; he was correct and zealous in his duty; and a great favourite of the captain's, who was his countryman. He was about fifty years of age, a married man, with a large family.
In the morning the chain-cable of the anchor was found tossed by the force of the sand-laden seas right over the deck, and arranged there with a certain regularity. To many of the crew it seemed clear that other than natural causes must have been at work; there were evidently "dead hands" upon the bank, and this was a warning. Nils shook his head and said nothing.
You all alone?" "I got asleep in the cabin, and they left me here." "And you been here all night? It is a wonder the sharks didn't eat you," said Simes, who had a very vivid imagination. "The sharks?" "Well, no matter about them things. I s'pose now you want to go home?" "Yes, if I can get down into your boat." "I'm willin' to take you if you can get down." "Couldn't I shin down the chain-cable?"
The anchor then splashed down to the accompaniment of a roar of chain-cable through the hawse-pipe the captain's gig was lowered away; and a few minutes later that individual was being pulled across the short space of water between his own ship and the Blanco Encalada.
'I recommend you to ring that bell, and have Mrs. Culling here. 'If she comes she will hear what I think of her. 'Then, out of the house! 'Very well, sir. You decline to supply me with money? 'I do. 'I must have it! 'I dare say. Money's a chain-cable for holding men to their senses. 'I ask you, my lord, how I am to carry on Holdesbury? 'Give it up.
While thus employed, axe in hand, a gallant young officer, Gibbard, of the Wolverine, fell mortally wounded. All the time the boats were under a heavy fire, to which they replied with their guns. The boom was fastened to the chain-cable of a vessel of three or four hundred tons.
Oh, Harve, did ye see his head?" "Did I? I'll never forget it. But look at here, Dan; it couldn't have been meant. It was only the tide." "Tide! He come for it, Harve. Why, they sunk him six miles to south'ard o' the Fleet, an' we're two miles from where she's lyin' now. They told me he was weighted with a fathom an' a half o' chain-cable."
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