4 things about Museum of ANCHORS on the open air …

#1

This original appliance a terrible minute became frequent a rescue last resort. Therefore the image of a two-horned anchor is the symbol of hope.

#2

At an exhibition various kinds of anchors are presented: heaver, made entirely from one piece of iron, Admiralty and Hollovsky, an anchor of Matrosov – the raised holding force, and so-called “cats”. Three, four, five-horn anchors-cats, easy and tenacious, were very convenient for castles of Vikings. They even were applied by Scandinavians in fights as boarding hooks.

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