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1.  What is all of the equipment associated with anchoring called?

2.  What is the machinery used to weigh the anchor and its cable called?

3.  What is the large pipe through which the cable passes from the deck to the ship's side called?

4.  What are the four types of anchors used by the Navy today?

5.  Answer each of the questions below in the space provided:

1. Describe a Mediterranean moor.

2. What is a stern anchor used for?

6.  What is the most common anchor in use in the Navy today?

7.  What are anchors carried on the ship's bow called?

8.  What are the advantages of LWT anchors?

9.  Answer each of the questions below in the space provided:

1. How many fathoms and feet are in a shot of chain?

2. How are shots connected to each other?

10.  What is the identifying color scheme of detachable links and shots?

11.  Answer each of the questions below in the space provided:

1. How is strain on the chain reported to the bridge?

2. What is the common reference used to describe the direction in which a chain tends?

12.  What is the common rule of thumb used to determine the proper amount of chain to be veered in an anchorage?

13.  What does it mean to "heave in the anchor to short stay"?

14.  Describe each the following:

1. Cleat

2. Bitts

3. chock

4. Bollard

15.  What are names of the lines in a standard six-line moor?

16.  What is the purpose of breast lines?

17.  Why must all naval ships be prepared to tow or be towed?