“The “capstan was manned” in a moment by above fifty of the crew….

..."Now," continued he, addressing the people employed at the capstan, "now, recollect, my lads, I want no more than the "double-quick" step, for I always suspect there's a good deal of "heaving thro' all," when there's any fast running round; so now––

"Left foot––
"Double-quick––
"Heave."

The capstan was instantly set in motion, the seamen marking their quick-measured step to the mellifluous strains of a woolly headed African cat-gut scraper, who, as occasion required, catered for the carnal appetites of the crew below in the galley as cook's-mate, or restrained their brute force like Orpheus of old, by measured modulation.

In consequence of the steady step preserved by the men at the capstan in their circumambulatory march, the cabal was not only hove in with great celerity, but with an equable motion that permitted the people below leisurely to bend and coil it away, without any of those interruptions or stoppages at the capstan, common on such occasions to most ships in the service. A few minutes served to bring the brig near enough to her anchor to render it necessary the circumstance should be announced by Burton, who exclaimed––
"Hove short, Sir."
[Sailors and Saints Or Matrimonial Manœvres, Glascock, 1829]