That was the mooringwire of one of the mines scraping along our protective girders.
Instead of warding off the mooring wire of an anchored mine, that jagged projection would foul it, for a moral cert.
With a slight, almost imperceptible shock, one of the protective girders encircling the submarine engaged the mooringchain of the hulk.
Almost at once the rush of water stopped, gradually subsiding until the tug swung easily at her mooring cables.
It took a few seconds for the rush of water to reach the Bohio, and when it did the tug began to sway and tug at the mooring cables, for they had not yet been cast off to enable it to be towed.
The pilot emerged behind them, glanced down at the captain overseeing the mooring operations, and then spoke to Tom, who made him acquainted with Patience and invited him to join them.
But sundown was not mooring time, for the twilight along the river often lasted until nine o'clock, and not a minute was wasted.
After the game country, which really meant the buffalo range, was reached this man went ashore almost every night and hunted until dawn or later, always keeping ahead of the boat's mooring and within sight of the river after daybreak.
I don't care how early you set out in the morning, but I want you to find your mooring or your anchorage by supper-time.
One of the yard hands threw off the mooring rope and Bob took the wheel.
The brig was now drawn in between two islands, and the mooring lines carried out.
When they came back the cable was unshackled and the end of it led in through the mooring half-moon on the vessel's stern, and there then remained the second anchor to lay out.
It's when he rounds up to his mooring the circus will begin.
He traced the mooring line back to the post at the shore where it had been tied and quickly loosened it.
Mewes loosened the bow line from itsmooring and tossed it into the longboat.
He was in the act of casting a mooring rope off a fixed capstan when De Sylva shot him between the shoulder-blades.
A wire hawser and mooringrope were severed with axes, the screw revolved, and the Andorinha was in motion.
They came up out of the cabin to watch the mooring line cast off, and to wave handkerchiefs at the empty cottage porches as the Arrow backed and straightened and swept out of the bay.
Part of the time a small power boat swung to the mooring in the bay where the shining Arrow nosed to wind and tide in other days.
Fortunately the mooring rope was still attached to the canoe, and Arthur endeavored, though many times ineffectually, to fling it within reach of the doomed catamaran.
The mooring rope is fast to a deck scrub thrust into the bank, and a heifer, having found out the roughness of the scrub, is leisurely rubbing herself all over and most thoroughly against the bristles.
No mal de mer can haunt its smooth waters; there is no tossing about in exposed anchorages, but instead the mooring by grassy banks odorous with flowers.
The mooring work of the Base was performed under the control of the Admiralty Port Officer, H.
They watch the preparations of the bluejackets for mooring at the stage with a detached professional interest; some of them gaze out to the nor'ard where the transports of the convoy are approaching.
The menace of sea-mines is particularly theirs; the run and swirl of Channel tides has strength to weigh a stealthy mooring and carry a power of destruction up stream and down.
Into the boat we scuttled with our bundles, and, giving way with a will, we soon covered the stretch of water between the ship and jetty and pulled the boat alongside, mooring her head and stern.
Mooring his boat at the foot of the rapids as quickly as possible, Russell half climbed, half waded, along the shore of the river and made his way back.
Her fingers stiff with cold, she cast off the mooring ropes, and the boat drifted away from the dock.
Penny and Louise, eager to impart information, brought the dinghy to a mooringat the floating platform.
Woodbury braced himself and lunged back on the reins, but he might as well have tugged at the mooring cable of a great ship; the bit was in the monster's teeth.
Suppose a hull lies in the water, stanchly built, graceful in lines of strength and speed, nosing at the wharf or tugging back on the mooring line, it may be a fine piece of building but it cannot be much admired.
The lieutenant, waspishly superintending the work of crew and base guards at the mooring lines, stood preoccupied within an arm's length; while the landing stage was a fair six feet away.
At this Lanyard began to move along the deck, one by one working the mooring lines clear of their cleats and dropping them gently overboard, till but two were left to hold the U-boat in place.
Just getting light enough to see," added Waynsford, as, in contradiction to his statement, he stumbled and almost fell over a mooring rope.
Hastily the pins of the mooring shackle were knocked out.
Meanwhile, the three vessels had steamed close to the mooring buoy, which, it will be remembered, lay in full view of the kitchen window.
Indeed, the Lapwing dared not approach nearer than the Trinity mooring buoy.
Then he passed a rope under the after thwart and reeved it through a ring-bolt in a rock placed there for mooring purposes in very calm weather like the present.
The mooring rope of the Betsy Jane had been cut or had broken, and he was miles out on the Atlantic without a prospect of succor.
I wonder if her mooring rope broke or if it was cut--guess I'll take a look.
As Frank came into view of the black old hull, swinging on her mooring line on the turning tide, a "Hampton" motor boat came chugging round the Betsy Jane's stern.
The boy dragged inboard the end of the mooring line that still hung over the bow.
The mooring of the floating light was a great point gained, but in the erection of the beacon at this late period of the season new difficulties presented themselves.
Hitherto the artificers had remained on board the Smeaton, which was made fast to one of the mooring buoys at a distance only of about a quarter of a mile from the rock, and, of course, a very great conveniency to the work.
The schooner herself, it was reported, had broken from her mooring during a gale and been driven upon the beach of Cleveland Bay, some miles from the town.
This tackle was made fast to a chain attached to the ship; and the mooring chain extending across the river was hauled on by the tackle.
At the stern mooring the anchor was bedded into the ground on the further side of the river.
The mooring chain of the bow tackle also gave way, although there was not any excessive strain on it.
With one or two mooring posts to watch it, and a course of stepping-stones, the brook slides into the peaceful bay, and is lost in larger waters.
He had drawn it aboard when he discovered it dangling from the mooring bitts into the water.
