riding anchor

The ship was riding anchor in choppy seas.

Riding anchor on its isolated mooring, the castle at night sits in spotlighted splendor.

As well as neutral ships, the warring parties had vessels at Narvik, riding anchor in the same port.

The commercial harbor was beyond the pier, where fishing boats were tied up at the docks or riding anchor, nets hanging from booms for drying and repair.

Drawing back her veil, Liandra shaded her eyes and stared at the insolent, thirty-four-gun frigate riding anchor in the turquoise sea.

And I'd find myself among five or six people riding anchor in the Great South Bay, clamming the sand flats near West Island.

In the early 15th century, the sight of Zheng He's fleet riding anchor in Calicut harbor symbolized the strength of the world's two greatest powers, China and India.

Next day, June 26, the French naval dispatch steamer Kienchang was also riding anchor outside the strait, when rebel Japanese artillery atop the bluffs surrounding Shimonoseki opened fire on her.

The U.S. merchant steamer SS Pembroke, under Captain Simon Cooper, was riding anchor unsuspectingly outside Shimonoseki Strait when intercepted and fired upon by two European-built warships belonging to the rebel forces.