Large anchor identification help.

[Robin1]

Hello, hoping for some help identifying a large anchor on a local beach. Done some research and possibly established that it is a single fluke mooring anchor, possibly 'tombstone' circa 1900? Has the letters "CM" welded on it. Would be grateful for some help..

 

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[Fishin-4-a-Livin]

Is there a fluke buried on the underneath side?

 

[Robin1]

Is there a fluke buried on the underneath side?

Hi, no it's single fluke

 

[ARC]

Hi, no it's single fluke

Are you sure the other fluke was not broken off ?
FOR...
Anchors are not effective with a single fluke and no pivot.
It has to be a situation of a broken fluke... perhaps hence its abandonment from service.

Also... the welded letters signify who it belonged to.

 

[Robin1]

Are you sure the other fluke was not broken off ?
FOR...
Anchors are not effective with a single fluke and no pivot.
It has to be a situation of a broken fluke... perhaps hence its abandonment from service.

Also... the welded letters signify it's it belonged to.

Pretty sure it's single fluke. Found a photo of it with the fluke pointing downwards. The closest match I can find are permanent mooring anchors from about 1900, nicknamed "tombstones". It might have been used as a mooring in the past and just left there, its located at an estuary.

 

[Robin1]

Pretty sure it's single fluke. Found a photo of it with the fluke pointing downwards. The closest match I can find are permanent mooring anchors from about 1900, nicknamed "tombstones". It might have been used as a mooring in the past and just left there, its located at an estuary.View attachment 2125000

 

[ARC]

I for one are unfamiliar with this type of anchor... heh... learn something new everyday.

 

[Robin1]

I for one are unfamiliar with this type of anchor... heh... learn something new everyday.

Done a bit more research, there was a U.K. shipping company in the 1900s called Crosby, Magee & Co, which would tie in with the style of the mooring anchor...and the initials on the anchor.

 

[Magoopeter]

Still in use,

Single Fluke Anchor - Marine Anchor - Hi-sea

Single Fluke Anchor can be treated with black painted, galvanized, weight: from 75kgs to 25000kgs.

www.cqhisea.com

 

[newnan man]

I always called them plow anchors. They work quite well.

 

[Robin1]

Still in use,

Single Fluke Anchor - Marine Anchor - Hi-sea

Single Fluke Anchor can be treated with black painted, galvanized, weight: from 75kgs to 25000kgs.

www.cqhisea.com

Thanks for the info, all helps 🙂

 

[Robin1]

Ok quick update, a curator from a maritime museum in Swansea believes it is cast steel, a ship's anchor rather than a mooring anchor and probably early 1900s. After hours of trawling the Internet I have found a couple of similar anchors in a war museum in Malta and have contacted to see if the anchors there are from war ships....getting there slowly 🐌 😀