At 17:20hrs cleared port anchor - starboard anchor weighed.

Sails were unfurled, the anchor weighed, and mooring lines cast off.

Hardly was the boat out of sight, when the captain came forward and ordered the anchor weighed; he was going to sea.

Blade ordered the anchor weighed and made ready to receive whatever message the pirates wanted to send.

Sails were being run up, lines fastened in place, and anchors weighed.

Only one of those remaining had managed to get all her sails up and her anchor weighed, but she was floundering in dead air and smoke.

Cutwood weighed no more than fifty or sixty pounds, and the anchor weighed two hundred.

The two ship's stockless anchors weighed five tons each.

He shifted a little with the roll of the ship, whose sails had been unfurled, the anchor weighed.

Each anchor weighed 30,000 pounds and was connected to the ship by wire rope cables 2 inches in diameter and 7,000 feet in total length.