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'A Launch of Spaniards weighing an Anchor at Tenerife' Long Caption: A view taken en route to Africa in the 'Pallas', probably in the harbour at Santa Cruz de Tenerife. The man are using a launch, the largest boat ships normally carried, to recover a ship's bower or stream anchor - both large and heavy. Anchors were sometimes lost or slipped in a hurry in mooring areas, their position marked by the buoyed cable: when possible they were later retrieved for collection or sometimes even sent on to rejoin their ship. Credit line: © National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London Object: PAJ2008 Artist: Gabriel Bray (1750-1823) Date: January 1775 Medium: watercolour Size: 165 mm x 203 mm Click here to buy a bespoke print of this image.