diff --git a/src/calibre/ebooks/mobi/reader/mobi6.py b/src/calibre/ebooks/mobi/reader/mobi6.py
index 24962fc858..25fc4b6ffd 100644
--- a/src/calibre/ebooks/mobi/reader/mobi6.py
+++ b/src/calibre/ebooks/mobi/reader/mobi6.py
@@ -385,8 +385,7 @@ class MobiReader(object):
         svg_tags = []
         forwardable_anchors = []
         pagebreak_anchors = []
-        BLOCK_TAGS = {'h1', 'h2', 'h3', 'h4', 'h5', 'h6',
-                                'div', 'p'}
+        BLOCK_TAGS = {'h1', 'h2', 'h3', 'h4', 'h5', 'h6', 'div', 'p'}
         for i, tag in enumerate(root.iter(etree.Element)):
             tag.attrib.pop('xmlns', '')
             for x in tag.attrib:
@@ -583,6 +582,10 @@ class MobiReader(object):
             else:
                 block.attrib['id'] = tag.attrib['id']
 
+        # WebKit fails to navigate to anchors located on <br> tags
+        for br in root.xpath('/body/br[@id]'):
+            br.tag = 'div'
+
     def get_left_whitespace(self, tag):
 
         def whitespace(tag):