ice-anchors

No sooner was the last dog helped on board, and the two ice-anchors released, than the engine-room telegraph rang, and the engine was at once set going to keep us from any closer contact with the ice-foot in the Bay of Whales.

The South Pole~ Northward 2009

No sooner was the last dog helped on board, and the two ice-anchors released, than the engine-room telegraph rang, and the engine was at once set going to keep us from any closer contact with the ice-foot in the Bay of Whales.

The South Pole; an account of the Norwegian antarctic expedition in the 'Fram', 1910 to 1912 2003

On the next day the ice closed upon them, and no opening was to be seen anywhere, except a hole, or lake as it might be called, of about a mile and a half in circumference, where the ships lay fast to the ice with their ice-anchors.

The Life of Horatio Lord Nelson Southey, Robert, 1774-1843 1993

At least they'd have a place to tie up and could forgo the trouble of utilizing the bulky ice-anchors.

Icerigger Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1974

A few of the barbarian rafts were struggling with reduced crews to pull out their ice-anchors and get under sail as well.

Icerigger Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1974

The ice, indeed, now set so fast down, that they were soon fixed; and obliged to heave through, for two hours, with ice-anchors from each quarter, nor were they quite out of the ice till midnight.

The Life of the Right Honourable Horatio Lord Viscount Nelson, Volume 1 James Harrison

Every effort to avoid their getting foul of each other failed; the ice-anchors and cables broke one after another; and the sterns of the two ships came so violently into contact, as to crush to pieces a boat that could not be removed in time.

Thrilling Stories Of The Ocean From Authentic Accounts Of Modern Voyagers And Travellers; Designed For The Entertainment And Instruction Of Young People Marmaduke Park

The ice closed fast, and was all round the ships; no opening to be any where seen, except a hole of about a mile and a half, where the ships lay fast to the ice, with ice-anchors.

The Life of the Right Honourable Horatio Lord Viscount Nelson, Volume 1 James Harrison

In returning to their ships, about seven in the morning, round which the ice had, in their absence, so completely got, that with their ice-anchors out they had moored alongside a field of it, they were frequently obliged to haul the boats, over ice which had closed since they went, to other openings.

The Life of the Right Honourable Horatio Lord Viscount Nelson, Volume 1 James Harrison

We placed her ice-anchors, and after that Wilson and I went on board and had a yarn with Pennell, whom we brought back to tea.

South with Scott Edward Ratcliffe Garth Russell Evans Mountevans 1918