sheet anchor
The Oxford Companion to Ships and the Sea
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sheet anchor, an additional anchor carried in the largest ships for security should the
bower anchors fail to hold the ship. Originally two additional anchors were carried, one at either
chesstree abaft the fore
rigging, one anchor being termed the sheet, the other the spare.
The term sheet anchor is also used as a synonym for security generally. ‘I never knew an appeal made to them for honour, courage or loyalty,’ said Admiral of the Fleet Lord St Vincent (1735–1823) of the Royal
Marines during the Napoleonic War (1803–15), ‘that they did not more than realise my highest expectations. If ever the hour of real danger should come to England, they will be found the country's sheet anchor.’
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