The channel was little known and extremely intricate; all the buoys had been removed; and the Danes considered this difficulty as almost insuperable, thinking the channel impracticable for so large a fleet.
Nelson himself saw the soundings made and the buoys laid down, boating it upon this exhausting service, day and night, till it was effected.
To add to the difficulties, the Germans had already removed all buoys and navigation marks, so that the ships had to be continuously making use of the lead line.
The courses, cross-bearings, lights, buoys and beacons were all riveted in their memory, and it was a rare occurrence when their memories failed them.
On entering a channel from the seaward, red buoys are on the starboard, or right hand; white buoys are kept on the port, or left side.
Buoys at the end of a channel are usually surmounted each by some device or other fastened at the upper end of a perch.
The buoys of permanent channels are usually hollow metal cylinders or cones about two feet in diameter, anchored so that the end of the cylinder projects about three feet above the water.
For this purpose buoys of different shapes and colors are used by day; by night fixed and flashing lights are employed.
We now resolved to let off enough gas to bring our guide-rope, with the buoys affixed, into the water.
Other submerged bells have been fitted to buoys and beacon structures, or placed on the sea bed; in the former case the bell is actuated by the motion of the buoy and in others by electric current, transmitted by cable from the shore.
In some cases, when submarine bells are associated with gas buoys or beacons, the compressed gas is employed to actuate the bell striking mechanism.
Acetylene has been extensively employed for the lighting of buoys in Canada and in the United States; to a less extent it has also been adopted in other countries.
Pintsch's oil gas has been in use for the illumination of buoys since 1878.
The installation was superseded by gas lit buoysin 1904.
The introduction of Pintsch's gas system in the early 'seventies provided a means of illumination for beacons andbuoys of which large use has been made.
In addition there are a few small lights and buoys privately maintained.
Buoys have been fitted with electric light, both fixed and occulting.
The lights placed on these buoys burn continuously for three or more months.
Great Eastern, having cleared away one of the great buoys and got it over her bows, was left as a sport to the wind, and drifted, at the rate of 70 feet a minute, down upon the imaginary line where the Cable had sunk to useless rest.
At present there are no buoys, but in the latter part of next month there will be buoys on Blossom Rock, Anita Rock, on the shoals on the N.
One carrier pigeon, apparently liberated 48 hours after the start, was shot, and two floating buoys with messages were found, but nothing more was heard of the explorers.
The harbour of Port Blair is well supplied with buoys and harbour lights, and is crossed by ferries at fixed intervals, while there are several launches for hauling local traffic.
She's all right now," said Priscilla, "and anyway there are two life buoyson board.
Only the few deep channels remain, with their foolish stranded buoys and their high useless perches, to witness to the fact that at evening time the sea will claim its own again.
The store, or big shed, was full of buoys of all shapes; some new and fresh, others old and rugged; all of them would have appeared surprisingly gigantic to any one accustomed to see buoys only in their native element.
On the way they stopped at one of the large buoys which required to be painted.
That these duties were not light might have been evident to the most superficial observer, for the buoys and their respective chains and sinkers were of the most ponderous and unwieldy description.
The tender was now bearing down on one of the numerous buoys which mark off the channels around the Goodwin sands, and it required careful steering in order to avoid missing it on the one hand, or running into it on the other.
All white buoysare to lie on the south side of the channel, and black buoys mark the north edge of it, and are consequently to be left on the port hand in passing to eastward.
The four English gun-boats to be provided with buoys (white).
The rest of the ships will then steer the same course, keeping one cable apart, and all anchor together in a line nearly north and south, just without the flag buoys that will be placed during the previous night.
The nights of the 30th and 31st were employed in surveying the waters, laying down buoys to replace those removed by the Danes, and in further reconnoissance of the enemy's position.
We saw them slip the string of life-buoys over their heads, and the next instant they were buried in the vast volume of water that broke, roaring and hissing, over the fabric that they stood upon.
This was soon done; the life-buoys were cut loose and piled in a safe and convenient position on the poop; and we were ready for any emergency.
You see that the buoys are beyond where the channel really begins.
In the silence of the night as the big ships swung To the buoys as the flood-tide made, Came a clamour from the wind like a shield that is rung By a foemen's blade.
Altering the position of those buoys the night you were here doubtless upset the German gunners' calculations.
Three more, preparing to leave at high water, were tied up to buoys at the entrance to the outer basin, their crews working silently as if infected by the solitude that overspread the once busy port.
Practically the best design for such a floating power-generator will be one in which four buoys are placed, each of them at the end of one arm of a cross which has been braced up very firmly.
A thin steel pipe offers less resistance than a wooden beam of equal strength, besides facilitating the use of a simple device for enabling the frame and buoys to slide easily up and down.
At first sight it might seem as if this arrangement rendered nugatory the attempt to take advantage of the rise and fall of the buoy; but it is not so when the relations of the four buoys to one another are considered.
He kept a strict lookout, and at the time appointed, neither the buoys nor the vessel coming up, he applied to the Orpheus frigate, which lay just off the barge, for assistance.
Possibly these nets were merely attached to buoys which we were then supposed to drag along after us, thus betraying our position.
The horrified listeners were told how Rousseau and Voltaire had corrupted France, how religion was overthrown and the naked Goddess of Reason set up as an object of worship.
The steps leading up to the settlement of the question may be briefly referred to.
Surely, surely, we have enough of this most wretched sectarianism in our churches without carrying it further.
Sometimes the buoys are numbered: then the even numbers are on the red buoys, and the odd ones on the black buoys.
When going into a harbor, red buoys must be left on the starboard hand; that is, on your right.
Black buoys must be left on the port, or left, hand.
Jenkins went to the wheel, picked up the buoys played upon by the searchlights, and sent the man to join the others, as one after another faced Denman and gave his name.
Then they turned on both searchlights, and saw buoys ahead, to starboard and port.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "buoys" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
