MOORING
BUOY
Located on hill between Buildings 12 and 67
Sand Point Naval Air Station
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HISTORY DISTRICT
In 1946, the question "Could Navy aircraft legally moor on Lake Washington?" A flurry of dispatches flew between Sand Point and The bureau of Aeronautics, establishing the Navy's rights.
On June 15th NAS Seattle was informed that 24 PBY's would arrive from Alameda, with six coming in each day.
Ted A. Morris, Lieutenant Colonel,
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Mooring buoys are distinguished by the
addition of a fitting to receive a ships mooring chain or hawser. A
mooring buoy typically consists of an anchor, a tether and a float
marking the location of the anchoring system. Below photo was taken at
Great Barrier Island, New Zealand. They are about 4 feet in diameter.
Commercial buoys are typically used for
temporary moorage of a vessel that is awaiting transit, or loading or
offloading. Often these vessels are barges. Recreational buoys are used
as semi permanent moorage for recreational vessels. The size of these
vessels are typically between 4 and 12 meters in length, with smaller
vessels moored on private tidelands or on shore and larger vessels
moored in marinas.
from GlobalSecurity.org
Bridle Information from:
Admiralty
manual of seamanship or All
About Buoys
A bridle is several feet
of line, (rope or chain) allowing the buoy to float around the plane
being moored.
Another use for buoys of this size are to SUPPORT SUBMARINE NETS IN HARBOR DEFENSE AREAS |
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 Figure 14E4 - Type T net defeating a torpedo |
 Figure 14E5 -
Portion of a Type T Net. |