A Marine & Seaman fishing off the anchor on board the Pallas in Senegal Road

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Title
A Marine & Seaman fishing off the anchor on board the Pallas in Senegal Road
Reference
PAJ2013
Document Type
  • Artwork, Illustrations and Photographs
Date
Jan 1775
Description
Titled, dated, and signed at the bottom, on the backing paper 'AVprGB' (to the life by Gabriel Bray). The date can be fairly closely identified as 29-30 January from the ship's log. The men are apparently sitting on the port anchor, though Bray has omitted the lashings supporting it against the ship's side, and the ship itself. There are in fact two anchors, a main bower with a smaller stream anchor on top of it, to which the buoy on which the seaman is sitting is probably attached. The ship is clearly lying off the mouth of the Senegal River, presumably only to single anchor using her starboard bower. The stream anchor was used for carrying out in a boat if the ship needed to be hauled off a shoal or otherwise manoeuvred in anchorages without using the sails.
Theme
  • Everyday Life at Sea