Preparing To Handle The Buoy. How to Plant a Mooring Buoy, in a series of difficult lessons by Coast Guard Buoy Tender, LAUREL. The crewmen of the Coast Guard Buoy Tender LAUREL are coiling the eight-inch hawser which is to serve as a stopper for the chain which loads from the top ring of the mooring buoy. The size of the twenty-ton buoy may be gauged by comparing it (right) with the men working beside it. Even with the aid of the powerful derrick equipment of the ship, the manual labor involved in this type of operation is one of the most burdensome a sea-going man is called upon to face. Not
Preparing To Handle The Buoy. How to Plant a Mooring Buoy, in a series of difficult lessons by Coast Guard Buoy Tender, LAUREL. The crewmen of the Coast Guard Buoy Tender LAUREL are coiling the eight-inch hawser which is to serve as a stopper for the chain which loads from the top ring of the mooring buoy. The size of the twenty-ton buoy may be gauged by comparing it (right) with the men working beside it. Even with the aid of the powerful derrick equipment of the ship, the manual labor involved in this type of operation is one of the most burdensome a sea-going man is called upon to face. Note: These scenes of Coast Guard action are laid in a Greenland Fjord.
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