1851 Great Exhibition: Official Catalogue: Class VIII.: James Honiball
95. HONIBALL, JAMES, 42 Cornhill — Patentee.
Porter's patent anchors, tested by order of the Lord of the Admiralty.
These anchors (see fig.) are considered to possess superiority in strength and holding power.
The advantages peculiar to their construction are — the protection of ships from accidents common with anchors of fixed arms, viz.: preventing fouling either at single anchor or otherwise; affording quick bite in all kinds of ground, hard or soft, and with short scope of cable will bring the ship up instantly; preventing damage to vessels in overlaying the anchor, or in passing over it in shallow water, as the upper fluke rests on the shank, it cannot enter the ship's bottom; preventing vessels, while in crowded anchorage, from being hooked by the cables of other vessels; convenient for stowing on board, by disconnecting the arms from the shank; easy of transport to or from a vessel in two boats, when the anchor is too heavy for one boat; and as, in proportion to the superior power of these anchors, less weight is required, thereby affording relief to ships' bows, and enabling them to sail with greater speed.