Sentence examples for mooring operation from inspiring English sources

Kirk S. Lippold, had reported by telephone to commanders in the region in the hours after the attack that the crew believed the skiff had been involved in mooring operation, suggesting the mooring was still under way.

Admiral Clark said that the ship's captain would not have necessarily have expected a routine mooring operation to pose a threat.

The revised timing is significant because it contradicts first reports that the attackers were involved in the mooring operation, or had infiltrated it and, having blended in, did not appear suspicious.

The sequence of events outlined by officials today supports initial eyewitness accounts -- reported immediately after the blast -- that the skiff had approached the Cole alone and unchallenged, not as part of the mooring operation.

The investigation is focusing on the theory that a team of suicide bombers, possibly belonging to an Islamic terrorist group, attacked the destroyer using the cover of a mooring operation in Aden harbor to dash in among a flotilla of support vessels.

We present a conceptually new controller for position mooring operations.

Bollards (mooring posts) on the lockside are used for holding vessels steady by ropes against the turbulence during lock operation; mooring hooks set in recesses in the walls provide an alternative anchorage against surging.

This paper addresses the dynamic positioning of surface vessels moored to the seabed via a turret based spread mooring system, an operation referred to as the position mooring.

A creep damage analysis of synthetic fiber ropes is of necessity to ensure the safe and economic operation of mooring systems.

In December 1971, Nixon learned of a military spy ring, the so-called Moorer-Radford operation, that was piping White House documents back to the Joint Chiefs of Staff.

Floating platforms with mooring systems are used extensively in off-shore operations.