anchor watch

He had offered to take the anchor watch.

“I’ll stand the next anchor watch,” he said.

“We’ll stand anchor watch tonight, Mr. Bowditch, along with our crew. So they won’t get lonesome. If we get past tonight with a full crew, they won’t have another chance to jump ship till the Cape. After tonight we can rest easy.”

A kind of anchor watch had been chosen by straws.

An anchor watch had been set, and having "gone the rounds" in order to satisfy himself that everything was in order Kenneth Kenyon had gone to his cabin to write letters that would be sent ashore when the picket-boat brought off the skipper and Bramsdean.