mooring-buoy

Peter crept forward and crouched on the deck in front of the mast I peered into the gloom to catch sight of our mooring-buoy.

Our Casualty, and Other Stories 1918 George A. Birmingham 1907

Kent's yacht, hung motionless over her mooring-buoy.

The Simpkins Plot George A. Birmingham 1907

Made it about noon, took possession of a convenient mooring-buoy inside the breakwater -- which buoy I found out later was sacred to the

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Six second mates on six American ships watched curiously, doubtingly, and at last anxiously, as sails were dropped and yards mastheaded on board the _Almena_, and as she paid off from the mooring-buoy before the land-breeze and showed them her stern, sent six dinghies, which gave up the pursuit in a few minutes and mustered around the buoy, where a wastefully slipped shot of anchor-chain gave additional evidence that all was not right.

"Where Angels Fear to Tread" and Other Stories of the Sea Morgan Robertson 1888

Five months later the _Almena_ lay at an outer mooring-buoy in Callao

"Where Angels Fear to Tread" and Other Stories of the Sea Morgan Robertson 1888

a short distance from the beach and made thoroughly secure by being moored with the ship's smallest kedge -- and, hoisting her huge lateen sail, cast off from the mooring-buoy, and proceeded to execute a few trial evolutions preparatory to the exploration of the reef.

The Missing Merchantman Harry Collingwood 1886

No beam, "said Harvey, critically, as the yacht slowed to pick up her mooring-buoy.

Captains Courageous Rudyard Kipling 1900