mooring ring

A mooring ring can still be seen in front of the church.

You can moor just about anywhere the bank will take an iron peg or where a mooring ring is available.

Michele secured the motor-boat to one of the mooring rings and handed her out.

As late as the early 1970s the harbour's iron mooring rings could still be seen at the eastern end of the bay.

Nowadays it offers around 1160 mooring rings, a wedge launch and a bunkering station.

Then they each have a turn at occupying different tasks on the boat, like pulling in the painters off the mooring ring and starting the engine.

Nevertheless, with more than a thousand mooring rings, Le Havre marina has underestimated its success.

They stood on the crumbling remnants of an old jetty, with huge, rusting iron mooring rings set in the weathered concrete.

First, Chow belayed the free end of his line to a mooring ring on the side of Airmo.

The decorative but ludicrous gondola mooring rings carved in stone on the exterior walls offer some evidence of this, as do other architectural features.

Mooring rings and securing bars were implanted, which acted as a solid base that could subsequently be used as a landing platform for building materials.

Crofts turned and accidentally dropped his cigarette packet, bending stiffly to retrieve it from where it had fallen against one of the rusted mooring rings.

With a slash of his sword he severed the painter that secured them tothe iron mooring ring in the stone wharf and seized the oars.

The hunting men of U-Gor were almost upon us as my groping fingers found one of the mooring rings in the bow of the Jhama.

Fossil Bay is one of the most popular anchorages, particularly for small boats that prefer to tie up to one of two docks rather than anchor or pick up a mooring ring.

Many ships were wrecked on the Doom Bar, despite the installation of mooring rings and capstans on the cliffs and quarrying away part of Stepper Point to improve the wind.

The report recommended initial expenditure of £20,000 to cut down the outer part of Stepper Point, which, in conjunction with the capstans, bollards and mooring rings, would significantly reduce the risk to shipping.

The building had not been intended for this purpose, and there was neither hangar nor mooring rings; but there are seldom high winds on Mars, and this was a particularly quiet and windless night.

Mooring rings were still there in 1824, and around 1830, three capstans at the base of the cliffs and bollards along the cliffs, by which means boats could be warped safely past the bar were installed.

She grinned sheepishly up at the bridge of the Estelle, then steadied herself and took the rope forward to the main pontoon, staring down at the mooring ring as if it were the most complex piece of technology she'd ever seen.

As a reminder of its maritime past, a small pond has been retained in the middle of the gardens and an old mooring ring of the type used by ships in the 17th and 18th centuries has been built into the masonry at the end of the gardens.

He heard the gentle clank of metal on stone as the line was secured through one of the jetty mooring rings - those rings polished so compromisingly friction-bright - and an abrupt roar of briefly applied power while the white water threshed and creamed as rumbling screws bit astern.