Mooring
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A mooring is any permanent structure to which a seaborne vessel may be secured. Examples include quays, wharfs, jetties, piers, anchor buoys, and mooring buoys. A ship is secured to a mooring to fores
Mooring Post, Eisenhower Pier, Bangor, Northern Ireland
A dockworker places a mooring line on a bollard.
Mooring line of Polish ship Fryderyk Chopin
Twenty foot diameter sheet pile cell mooring structure and five steel pipe pile tripods
Mooring bollard
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A mooring bollard is a sturdy, short, vertical post on a ship or quay used principally for mooring boats.
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…Heavy mooring lines are often passed from larger vessels to people on a mooring by smaller, weighted heaving lines. Once a mooring line is attached to a bollard, it is pulled tight. Large ships generally tighten their mooring lines using heavy machinery called mooring winches or capstans. The heaviest cargo…
Mooring bollards, such as this one in the Hudson River, were the first type of bollard. The use of the term has since expanded.
Old cannon used as a mooring bollard on the Merwede-Canal, Utrecht, Netherlands
Old cannon used as a mooring bollard, near the entrance of the Grand Harbour, Malta
Mooring bollard, Lyme Regis