They kept at this Kedging till midnight, and later, dropping the anchor ahead from the small boat, then hauling the ship up to it by the chain and steam windlass-with the variations splendid exercise for all hands.
"From Edinburgh to India & Burmah"
William G. Burn Murdoch
He saved his ship on one occasion, when she was becalmed and practically surrounded by a powerful British fleet, by "Kedging"-in other words, sending a row-boat out with an anchor, which was dropped as far ahead as the boat could take it, and the ship pulled up to it by means of the windlass.
"American Men of Action"
Burton E. Stevenson
On the 17th of July, 1812, a very calm day, the frigate met a fleet of British vessels, and the enemy thought they had an easy prize, but by a combination of towing and Kedging by means of the Constitution's boats and anchors, an extraordinary escape was made which, as Captain Hull stated at the time, was conceived by Lieutenant Morris.
"A Portrait of Old George Town"
Grace Dunlop Ecker