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Anchor Chain Nightmare on U S S Hatteras
Jim Evrard of Brooklyn and two shipmates faced a deadly 360 foot steel anchor chain loop flight in the Hatteras chain lockers during a mid Atlantic storm in February 1918. The heavy ten and a half inch links whipped around the confined space threatening crushing injuries as they struggled to coil the chain correctly until the ship steadied.
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