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
A kind of anchor watch had been chosen by straws.
From "Cannery Row" by John Steinbeck
He had offered to take the anchor watch.
From "Carry On, Mr. Bowditch" by Jean Lee Latham
"You were on the anchor watch on the evening of the twenty-fifth of August, were you not?"
From The Battleship Boys' First Step Upward or, Winning Their Grades as Petty Officers by Frank Gee Patchin
Fortunately, they did not meet the anchor watch, who was probably asleep.
From The Boy Pilot of the Lakes Nat Morton's Perils by Frank V. Webster
