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These mooring buoys are variously described as "swing mooring buoys", "coaling buoys" and "hulk buoys" depending on their location and purpose within the harbour. Two of the syntaxes on the buoy timbers contain a broad arrow, meaning that the timber was clearly owned by the Royal Navy as the finished buoy would also likely have been. Not only would there have been buoys on each of the vessel moorings, but in addition there were also coaling station buoys, hulk moorings and a series of transportation buoys that allowed safe transit in and out of the harbour for naval vessels. During the dredging works to deepen the access channel to Portsmouth Harbour and its naval base for the newly-built Queen Elizabeth Class aircraft carriers, sections of a large, early 19th-century timber buoy were recovered from the harbour-bed and re-deposited by the operators onto the quayside. [Extracted from the article]