“...and when it is recollected, that the “best bower,” of ninety hundred weight, has often to be dragged out of a muddy anchorage, some idea may be formed of the immense power demanded; it accordingly requires the simultaneous effort of sixty or eighty men, who “man the capstan,” to effect it: a drum and fife play a lively air to encourage them in their exertions, and to time their efforts.”
[Some Account of a Ship, The Saturday Magazine, Vol. III, July Supplement, 1833]