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Show A HISTORICAL ANCHOR. That of the Cnmberlaud Now on th TV. H. Macy. If the port anchor of the American ship W. H. Macy, now lying at Green street wharf, could talk it might unfold un-fold some wonderful yarns. The big but ungraceful mud hook swinging over the ship's bow was once suspended suspend-ed through the hawse pipe of the Unit-ed Unit-ed States frigate Cumberland. When it was made nobody now seems to know, but it is more than likely that it began its career of usefulness with the launching of the Cumberland. 1' was on the Cumberland in 1S61 when the war broke out and probably when the frigate disappeared under the waters wat-ers of Hampton Roads. Between that day and the time that the Macy was launched, which occurred about flfte611 years ago, the history of the Cumberland's Cumber-land's anchor is unknown. "Old Cumberland," Cum-berland," as the sailors call the big anchor, weighs about five tons, which is nearly twice as much as the average anchor used by sailing craft. Tha stock is sixteen feet long and of solid oak, which Is as sound today as when it rested on the deck of the Cumberland. The ring, through which the cable passes, Is large enough to admit the passage of the body of a full-grown man, and the flukes are just three and a half feet wide. The only signs of the anchor's past now visible is the name V. S, S. Cumberland stamped Into tie iron. Some of the letters are alns obliterated, but there Is enough le" to identify the anchor. |