I'm looking at the frayed end of the mooring cable.

When you're finished with that, cast off the mooring cables.

And then he would have surely run mooring cables to shore.

The mooring cables snapped away and we were released into the air.

"Another half hour to release the mooring cables and be on our way.

I don't know how much longer our mooring cables can withstand the strain.

Men moved as quietly across the decks, among the mooring cables.

One source says that a mooring cable got wrapped around a gas cylinder.

He made his way along the float, taking the mooring cable with him, and jumped ashore.

Pitt studied the detailed plans of the mooring cables given him by Morton.

"Am I to understand, you intend to use the mooring cables as towing lines?"

You have to figure they'd be a little nervous that a mine or two might have too long a mooring cable.

You take the right-side mooring cable, I'll take the left.

Cadmann wrapped a mooring cable around his arm and reeled it out.

Reina Cristina slipped her mooring cables and prepared to maneuver.

They were also freshly painted and their mooring cables were recently lubricated.

Sweeping proper, with an underwater cable cutting the mooring cables of floating mines.

We unlashed the mooring cables almost as the last bag of cement was carried down the gangplank.

A seven-fathom section of the mooring cable had been removed and replaced with much lighter chain which then gave way during the next storm.

The shelter proved inadequate, and Chauvelins mooring cables snapped.

On the journey they lose their anchor, and their mooring cable is snapped by a squall.

One of Domon's crewmen jumped for an axe and swung it high over a mooring cable.

"We've already formed work crews to help us use the hotel's mooring cables for tow cables.

Answering from the rooms where the great mooring cable winches were mounted, Brown acknowledged, "Just say the word."

The explosion was of such magnitude that a thick mooring cable from the ship hit Peñacastillo, 8 km away, killing a person.