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1.— Chain and Anchor: for Steam Vessels required by Lloyd’s Register of British and Foreign Shipping (1874).

Minimum Weights of Anchors ex. Stock, Sizes and Length of Chain Cables, and the Proof Strain to which they are to be tested; also Sizes and Length of Hawsers and Warps,—the Anchors and the Links of the Chains to be of unexceptional form and proportions.

2.—Chains and Anchors for Sailing Vessels required by Lloyd’s Register of British and Foreign Shipping (1874).

¹ The rules for the building and classification of iron ships provide that "their equipment is to be regulated by the number produced by the sum of the measurements of the half moulded breadth of the vessel amidships, her depth from the upper part of keel to the top of the upper deck beams, and the girth of her half midship section to the same height, multiplied by the vessel's length, for a one, two, and three decked vessel, and for a spar-decked steam vessel."

² Two of the bower anchors must not be less than the weight set forth above; in the third a reduction of 15 per cent. will be allowed.