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.
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
Bitts
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Bitts are paired vertical wooden or metal posts mounted either aboard a ship or on a wharf, pier, or quay. The posts are used to secure mooring lines, ropes, hawsers, or cables. Bitts aboard wooden sa
Mooring bollard
…the line a turn, in order to veer it steadily, and check the animal's velocity". Bollards on ships, when arranged in pairs, may also be referred to as "bitts". Bollards made from old cannon were called niggerheads. A conventional measure of the pulling or towing power of a watercraft, defined as the force…
Shipboard bitts
Shoreside bitts