bell-buoy

A pink and blue June morning found me at Bradgate looking from the Griffin Hotel over a smooth sea to the lightship on the Cock sands which seemed the size of a bell-buoy.

The Thirty-Nine Steps 2005

Some day I hope to hear the poem chanted or sung-with the bell-buoy breaking in out of the distance.

Mark Twain: A Biography 2003

Everyone who was there can still hear the old bell-buoy at Swakopmund.

With Botha in the Field Eric Moore Ritchie

Hence the whistling-buoy is used in roadsteads and the open sea, while the bell-buoy is preferred in harbors, rivers, and the like, where the sound-range needed is shorter, and smoother water usually obtains.

Scientific American Supplement, No. 470, January 3, 1885 Various

For the rest we had no change from the perpetual sound of the sea and the mournful note of the bell-buoy that marks the inshore shoal.

With Botha in the Field Eric Moore Ritchie

Farther to the north it widened a little with the curve of the shore, and through a swaying curtain of rain I could follow it to a point we called the Notch, near the entrance of the Cat's Mouth; of late years they have dredged the channel and moored a bell-buoy off this headland.

McClure's Magazine, Vol 31, No 2, June 1908 Various

_ -- The bell-boat, which is at most a clumsy contrivance, liable to be upset in heavy weather, costly to build, hard to handle, and difficult to keep in repair, has been superseded by the Brown bell-buoy, which was invented by the officer of the lighthouse establishment whose name it bears.

Scientific American Supplement, No. 470, January 3, 1885 Various

Manacles themselves foam yonder with perpetual menace, their bell-buoy sounding a dismal but quite insufficient warning.

The Cornwall Coast

Like the whistling-buoy, the bell-buoy sounds the loudest when the sea is the roughest, but the bell-buoy is adapted to shoal water, where the whistling-buoy could not ride; and, if there is any motion to the sea, the bell-buoy will make some sound.

Scientific American Supplement, No. 470, January 3, 1885 Various

The apparatus consists of a bell designed to ring either pneumatically from a lightship, electrically from the shore (the bell itself being a tripod at the bottom of the sea), automatically from a floating bell-buoy, or by hand from a ship or boat.

The Loss of the S. S. Titanic Its Story and Its Lessons Lawrence Beesley 1922