ive understood it to mean tying down, its more reminiscent of the word docking since they refer to ships that are tied to a dock using the mooring lines
They are the same. they get onto the ships from the mooring lines.
If a mooring line under tension suddenly snaps, the whiplash (snapback) of the cable could injure or kill anyone standing in the area of the whiplash. On the deck of a ship, there are areas round mooring lines where it is not safe to stand.
anchor, anchor windlass, mooring lines, seamen. flag
I am very excited to see the mooring of a ship. I have never saw one.
Yes. Mooring is a noun.
Keisha Mooring's birth name is Keisha Danielle Mooring.
Linwood Mooring's birth name is Linwood E. Mooring Jr..
Titanic's voyage began on April 10th, 1912, when she cast off her mooring lines in Southampton, England.
Arthur Mooring died in 1969.
Arthur Mooring was born in 1908.
They let down lines (100-200 foot in length) that are captured by men (10-20) on the ground, then it is reeled in for mooring.