anchor watch
Example Sentences
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And, in 35 hours on the anchor watch, Cronkite committed only one embarrassing blooper by confusing Crooner Tony Martin with Tony Bennett.
From Time Magazine Archive
He had offered to take the anchor watch.
From "Carry On, Mr. Bowditch" by Jean Lee Latham
A kind of anchor watch had been chosen by straws.
From "Cannery Row" by John Steinbeck
At one o'clock, every one on board the Storm King, except the officers of the deck, quartermaster, and the two seamen who stood the anchor watch, was sound asleep.
From No Moss The Career of a Rolling Stone by Castlemon, Harry
I don’t know where the anchor watch was, stowed away asleep somewheres, likely.
From The Secret of the Sands The "Water Lily" and her Crew by Collingwood, Harry
