“...This night was passed in equally as unpleasant a manner as the former one, and the first sound I heard in the morning was the crew singing the well known anchor song

                "A hundred years ago."

The massive chain began to move through the hawse-hole, and was drawn up link by link with the powerful windlass, till it lay upon the deck many a fathom. The anchor was soon secured in its place….”
[A Voyage to Australia and New Zealand, Askew, 1857]