“Captain Malcolm, too, has plenty to do. Crew and officers are desperately active. What a rattling of chain cable! The long useless anchor is being got ready, and the wild “anchor song” of sailors, so cheery when a ship is nearing land, so melancholy when the anchor leaves the ground of home before starting for a long voyage, is ringing from the “fokstle.””
[The Voyage of the Lady, Vol.2, Grey*, 1860]
*Henry Schütz Wilson (1824 – 1902)