Show A historical ANCHOR that of the lh tow on alo AT IV 11 II alster it if the port anchor of the american ship W 11 II macy now 1 ng at green street wharf could talk taik it might un fold some wonderful etui ya ns UL the big but ungraceful mud hook book swinging over the hips ships bow was once suspend ed through the habale pipe of the unit ed state stott frigate cumberland when it valk made nobody now seems to know but it ie Is more than likely that t began ito its career of usefulness with the launching of the Cumber cumberland latil it wae was on the cumberland in 1861 1891 when the war ar out and probably when the frigate disappeared dipp eared under the ant ere erg of hampton roads between that day and the time that the macy lacy was laun bod which occurred about fifteen iran ago the history of the cumber 1 IP e anchor Is I 1 unknown old clin jc erland rland ae as the ullars can call the big ambor anchor weighs about tone tons atch ie Is rit nearly arly twice aj as much as the average anchor used by ailing miling craft the tock stock ie Is sixteen feet long and of ocala oak which is aa as sound today u when I 1 ft retted rested on the deck of the Cuu urland the ring through ahr ough which the cable basses Is large enough to admit the of the t he bod boda of a full grown man and the flukes are jut just three and a half halt feet wd wide the only signs of the ene pet past now visible ie Is the name I 1 U S 3 cumberland stamped tamped into the iron sam of the letters are obliterated but there ie Is enough left to identity identify the anchor |