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This is a ship's 'chain locker,' for anchor chain stowage.
EDIT: I sit corrected. This is not a working chain locker. Someone with knowledge weighs into the thread. See above. Or below. It's in here somewhere.
And is super dangerous as the conversation of iron to rust tends to consume the oxygen inside and makes the air unbreathable. This has killed a lot of people.
Wow. So in addition to the size, like one link being enough to smash you like a bug... This landlubber was not aware of that.
The remarkably good condition of equipment that lives in such an environment and gets regularly dipped in seawater was noted, however.