• Lifes_Like_Plinko@lemmy.fmhy.mlOP
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    This is a ship’s ‘chain locker,’ for anchor chain stowage.

    EDIT: I sit corrected. This is not a working chain locker. Someone with knowledge weighs into the thread. See above. Or below. It’s in here somewhere.

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      And is super dangerous as the conversation of iron to rust tends to consume the oxygen inside and makes the air unbreathable. This has killed a lot of people.

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        Wow. So in addition to the size, like one link being enough to smash you like a bug… This landlubber was not aware of that.

        The remarkably good condition of equipment that lives in such an environment and gets regularly dipped in seawater was noted, however.

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      1 year ago

      This looks more like a shipment of rigging.

      There is a lot of clean chains there.
      It looks like every piece has additional rigging to make it easy to crane out.
      There are also a lot of shackles. I wouldn’t expect a ship’s anchor chain to have shackles, and I wouldn’t expect them to be stored with the chain.
      There are also spreader plates (or multi-blocks) in there.

      I would expect a chain locker to only have 1 kind of chain in it.
      I’d also expect it to be less… Tangled looking? At least a little more uniform as the chain gets put in.

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        1 year ago

        Thank you for the insight.

        This was represented as a chain locker where I appropriated it. I saw the shackles, but not knowing the first thing about maritime operations, stuck with what I read.

        You think this is a cargo hold?