Chain sizes

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I am building the Revell 1/96 Cutty Sark and am wondering what the correct links per inch or cm should be for the anchor chain? The supplied chain seams too large and the length is too short.
 
I think she carried at least three different chain sizes as her anchor sizes/types were 27-3/4cwt, stream anchor of 8-3/4cwt and two kedge anchors (I could not find the weight of these.) I have no idea how to calculate the chain size but hopefully someone here will have a formula for sizing the chain to the anchor weight plus the pull of the ship in normal or perhaps extreme anchoring conditions.
Allan
 
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