Brief History of the Anchor

The ancient Greeks used baskets of stones, large sacks filled with sand, and wooden logs filled with lead, according to Apollonius Rhodius and Stephen of Byzantium; and Athenaeus states that they were sometimes made of wood. Such anchors held the vessel merely by their weight and by their friction along the bottom. Lashing tree branches to the stone formed teeth or "flukes", to fasten themselves into the bottom. Advances in woodworking and metallurgy encouraged development of improved shapes for more compact, durable, as well as efficient anchors. ~ Wikipedia


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