Anchors

[Platapus]

Originally Posted by ETR3(SS)

If you do anchors then you would have to do harbor tugs as well. And then you would have to have the crew station the Maneuvering Watch as well. Speaking from my modern day experience we never used our anchor...for anything! We had procedures for using it, but never would have to use it. The only reason we had one was because of a Coast Guard regulation I believe. An anchor on a submarine is about as useful as a screen door on a submarine.

In the fiction book "final harbor" the author wrote that the US Sub had its anchor removed so that the chains could not shift around and make noise. The author also mentioned the possibility of the anchor coming loose during a depth charge attack.

Does that make sense or was the author BSing?