Since writing The Recovery of the Small Stream Anchor from HMS Investigator, I have now found that details regarding the search for the two anchors from the Investigator were included in the Australasian Shipping Record, Vol.4, No.6, June 30, 1973.
The Australasian Shipping Record was published as the "Journal of the Australasian Maritime Historical Society".
The article in question is titled "The Search and Recovery of the INVESTIGATOR'S ANCHORS".
It tells of how the anchors were first lost by Investigator and how Bob Sexton and the late Doug Seton researched the loss and ultimately led an expedition to find them. It concludes with the actual recovery of the two anchors and their restoration, and finishes with the aim of having one of them displayed in Adelaide.
(Photo courtesy of Doug & Mara Seton)
Since the Australasian Shipping Record, Vol.4, No.6, June 30, 1973 is now some 52 years old, I am reproducing the article below via these scans: -
(Photo courtesy of Doug & Mara Seton)
The large bower anchor is now on display at the South Australian Maritime Museum in Lipson Street, Poort Adelaide.
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