Synonyms for anchor watch

Grammar : Noun

Top 10 synonyms for anchor watch

Other synonyms for the word anchor watch

third shift

Définition of anchor watch

As in graveyard shift : noun night shift
As in night shift : noun nighttime work schedule
As in swing shift : noun evening work shift

Example sentences :

The officer of the anchor watch seemed to be the only obstacle in his way.
Extract from : « Up The Baltic » by Oliver Optic

Ryder, the fourth lieutenant, and two seamen had the anchor watch on deck.
Extract from : « Up The Baltic » by Oliver Optic

This is the yarn I listened to on anchor watch thirty years ago.
Extract from : « The Grain Ship » by Morgan Robertson

Fortunately, they did not meet the anchor watch, who was probably asleep.
Extract from : « The Boy Pilot of the Lakes » by Frank V. Webster

On all men-of-war at eight o'clock, the anchor watch is mustered.
Extract from : « A Gunner Aboard the "Yankee" » by Russell Doubleday

If the vessel was at anchor in a roadstead, he had to keep his two-hour anchor watch the same as the rest of the crew.
Extract from : « Windjammers and Sea Tramps » by Walter Runciman

There are no native villages within ten miles at least, and we shall be quite safe, so we need only keep an anchor watch at night.
Extract from : « The Call Of The South » by Louis Becke

The men would alternate on an anchor watch and keep the fish "chummed" up during the night.
Extract from : « El Diablo » by Brayton Norton

Then, as soon as the fishermen had departed, all hands except the anchor watch went to breakfast.
Extract from : « The Cruise of the Nonsuch Buccaneer » by Harry Collingwood

I was "it" for anchor watch, and, as is often the case, the anchor watch manned the running small boat.
Extract from : « A Gunner Aboard the "Yankee" » by Russell Doubleday

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