This is not a true anchor, as it does not sink to the bottom. It is a conical-shaped canvas bag required by the Steamboat Inspection Service to be carried in each lifeboat. When placed overboard it serves a double purpose in keeping the boat head-on into the sea and in spreading vegetable or animal oil from a container placed inside the bag. It is sometimes called an oil spreader.
Le asiyo-ankile yokwenene, kuba ayitshoni ngaphantsi. Yibhegi yelaphu leseyile ekumila kwe-conical okufunwa yiNkonzo yokuhlola iNqanawe eqhutywa ngomphunga ukuba ithwale sisikhitshane ngasinye sokuhlangula elwandle. Xa sisehliselwa emanzini sisebenza iinjongo ezimbini: ukugcina isikhitshane sijonge elwandla nokusasaza imifuno okanye i-oyile yesilwanyane esifakwe ngaphakathi engxoweni. Maxawambi ibizwa ngokuba ngumsasazi-oyile.