But done it was, and on the evening of the 22nd we anchored at the buoy of the Gunfleet.
There was a mariner wounded in eighteen places who by adventure recovered unto thebuoy of the galley so that the galley's boat took him up.
I realized that if this continued my life-buoy would be destroyed; but I was helpless.
Plump came a circular white life-buoy into the sea, luckily falling within my reach.
A buoy is a floating body in the shape of two inverted cones united at their bases, made of copper or plate iron.
That buoyon the starboard has no English name; but it is of no consequence, and I will not try to speak it.
On August 31st a floating buoy was found in the Arctic seas, and contained another message, but as it was dated July 11th it was of less interest than the first.
There was a slight, almost inaudible hiss and the buoy with the message attached, was ejected out of the conning-tower, rising to the surface within fifty yards of the on-coming launch.
On board my last ship, the Blanche, we had a rum start one day with our life-buoy sentry.
To-day we returned to the buoy we had left at the end of the six- wire cable, and after much trouble from a series of tangles, got a fair start at noon.
Now it is dark and we must wait for morning before lifting the buoy we lowered to-day and proceeding seawards.
Here as I write we run our last course for thebuoy at the St. Pierre shore end.
We are now at 7 o'clock getting the cable end again, with the main cable buoy close to us.
Nor was it till Cardyke pointed out that there was writing upon the buoy that Drake gave his attention to it.
Boyne Buoyon the starboard bow, sir," reported the look-out.
Lawless, "if we tied up to the buoy the bally submarine might come up immediately under our keel.
Or we could tie up to the buoy and plug any U boat that came up to the surface.
Drawing his revolver he fired it in the air, and before the report had died away the buoy and the submarine were lit up by the brilliant beam of the Knat's searchlight.
The chances of rescue by such a device might not be very brilliant, but it seemed the only thing left for him to do unless he were content to remain passively on the cage-buoy till he had to release his hold through sheer exhaustion.
Then, as the destroyer drew nearer, Trent, in his turn, recognised the soaked and huddled-up figure clinging to the platform of the buoy as that of his senior officer.
The bell-buoy, being such a well-known navigating mark, could not be mistaken for any other buoy in its vicinity.
Sitting on a bell-buoy catching submarines with a bent pin!
Tired out as he was, he strongly doubted his ability to cling on to the buoy for an hour, let alone a whole night.
If he could manage to swim to the bell-buoy and muffle the clapper some of the patrol boats in the neighbourhood would be bound to notice its silence and proceed to investigate the cause.
And now the mournful clang of the bell-buoy grew louder, and a fanciful idea occurred to Lawless that it was tolling for the hundreds of men who had perished in the North Sea by mine and submarine.
He swung himself over the deck-rail, reached the buoy safely, and next moment the searchlight was switched off and the Knat disappeared in the darkness.
These two men at last reached the buoy; and, having fastened the punt to it, they tied one end of their rope to the small buoy that they had in the punt, and sent it adrift towards the vessel.
The coxswain seized a life-buoy and hurled it towards him.
The buoy having been secured, an iron hook and chain of great strength were then attached to the ring in its head.
Jack was painting squares of alternate black and white on a buoy of a conical shape.
The buoy having been lifted, another of the same size and shape, but freshly painted, was attached to the chain, tumbled over the side, and left in its place.
You see we require stronger tackle," said the captain to Stanley, while the buoywas being slowly raised.
Certain buildings on shore coming into line with other prominent buildings, such as steeples, chimneys, and windmills, were his infallible guides, and these declared that the buoy had not shifted more than a few feet.
That buoy weighs fully three-quarters of a ton, and cost not less, along with its chain and sinker, than 150 pounds, yet it is not one of our largest.
Dick was vigorously scraping sea-weed and barnacles off a buoyof a round form.
We left behind the painted buoy That tosses at the harbor-mouth: And madly danced our hearts with joy, As fast we fleeted to the south: How fresh was every sight and sound On open main or winding shore!
Whether a mine was attached to that buoy or not is unknown, though Mr. Williams was confident that one was.
She was conducted by a Spanish official pilot to her anchorage at a buoy between Regla and the old custom house.
The sea-breeze came in freshly with the tide and blew the fog away; and the little waves danced for joy around the buoy, and the old buoy danced with them.
The red buoy was in sight, dancing in the open sea; and to the buoy he would go, and to it he went.
And Tom sat upon the buoy long days, long weeks, looking out to sea, and wondering when the water-babies would come back; and yet they never came.
The wire that passes from cask to cask is stopped aslack to the buoy rope from the shell up to the cask to which it is securely seized, to prevent any strain upon that part which enters the cask.
The anchor to each is an eighteen inch shell and a piece of kentledge so placed as to prevent the barrels from fouling the buoy ropes at the change of the tide.
But there was delay, the lanyard fouled the buoy all right, the kegs floated past and strained the lanyard, but there was no explosion.
The return wire is stopped in like manner down the buoy ropes to the shell, and then along the span to the next shell.
They had earned the reputation of being the worst and the most costly in the world, and during the last eighteen months they had not belied it.
Signaling devices can extend from such buoy to the operator along the shore, who will close the circuit from the reserve or main supply circuit.
A buoy was thrown to him, the ship brought to the wind, and a boat lowered within fifteen minutes of the occurence.
I made several strokes with my arms, and suddenly spied a life-buoy floating almost twenty yards ahead of me.
And the way across isn't so bad, that I can see," announced Merritt, principally to help buoy up the sinking heart of poor Tubby.
He could feel for his chum, and it was only natural for him to want to buoy up Merritt's sinking hopes.
The buoy of the Inchcape Bell was seen A darker speck on the ocean green; Sir Ralph the Rover walk'd his deck, And he fix'd his eye on the darker speck.
The Abbot of Aberbrothok Had placed that Bell on the Inchcape Rock; On a buoy in the storm it floated and swung, And over the waves its warning rung.
They always start from Portland on the end of a norther, and run for this buoy to make their grounds from.
At the junction of the second and third a buoy was fastened, and another between the fourth and fifth.
Guess we'd better take a buoy aboard, and hang to it till Jim comes out to hunt us up.
Filippo, be ready to throw that buoy and coil of warp off the starboard bow the minute I make a strike.
The sea fell rapidly to a long, lazy swell, on which the buoy rocked drowsily.
As he approached the first buoy he opened his switch, stopping the engine.
Well, all I've got to say is that you were confounded lucky to hit the buoy and not the breaker.
Round the buoy above the water-line were bolted four lugs, or iron handles, by which the can could be hoisted on board the lighthouse steamer.
By ten o'clock the last hook was reached, anchor and buoy taken aboard, and the Barracouta, with two thousand pounds of fish heaped in her kids and towing astern in the dory, headed for Tarpaulin Island.
Gaffing the buoy aboard, he pulled up the anchor, and soon was hauling in the trawl over the wooden roller on the starboard bow.
Down on the breeze floated a distant, melancholy note, the voice of the whistling buoy south of Roaring Bull Ledge, two miles from Isle au Haut.
Dropping the buoy he had just gaffed, Percy took the oars and began rowing hard toward the sound, which gradually grew louder.
Soon the coils of the fifty-fathom lobster-warp had straightened out in the wake of the terrified fugitive, and the red buoy danced off over the wave-crests.
