light-buoy

The container is then ready for supplying to a lighthouse or light-buoy the acetylene necessary for lighting.

Nobel Prize in Physics 1912 - Presentation Speech 1967

The _Vindictive_, always at that solemn gait of hers, found the flagship's light-buoy and bore up for where a coastal motor-boat, commanded by Lieutenant William R. Slayter, R.N., was waiting by a calcium flare upon the old position of the Stroom Bank buoy.

World's War Events $v Volume 3 Beginning with the departure of the first American destroyers for service abroad in April, 1917, and closing with the treaties of peace in 1919. 1902

"It's an anchored light-buoy," explained the lieutenant, "which forms the end of the electric light cable, and there to the right is another one.

Banzai! by Parabellum Ferdinand Heinrich Grautoff 1903