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
The anchor watch discovered that there was something wrong.
From The Battleship Boys' First Step Upward or, Winning Their Grades as Petty Officers by Patchin, Frank Gee
He was to take the anchor watch, which would place him on the quarter-deck from eight until twelve o'clock.
From The Battleship Boys' First Step Upward or, Winning Their Grades as Petty Officers by Patchin, Frank Gee
