After 100 hours on the anchor chain Greenpeacers removed the pod from the Stena Carron’s anchor chain, saying, “We didn’t want to pay hundreds of thousands of pounds of supporter money daily ...

Just hours after we removed our survival pod from the ship’s anchor chain, it left for a site in the Lagavulin oil field where it will drill an exploratory well in 500 metres of water.

While ships’ anchor chains vary in length, many ships carry about 12 shots of chain, and each shot is 90 feet long, Browne said, which equals about 1,080 feet of anchor chain.

Navy ships can be massive behemoths, and that's also true of what's used to weigh down and stop these vessels. But how massive can Navy anchors get?

The damage isn't just done by the anchor, but also by the hundreds of feet of heavy chain that must be deployed as well. It is common practice to send out a length of anchor chain that is 5-7 times ...

Blaine manufacturer Lister Chain & Forge could be impacted by a Department of Defense decision to buy ship anchor chains from an overseas supplier.