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He managed to get a line and hawser ashore, across which some 40 men scrambled to safety.
The captain and his crew abandoned ship in the boats and ran a hawser to anchor the Shuna's bow to the shore.
The steeply sloping reef was covered in a jumble of steel hawser, deck plates, twisted girder and hand-rail.
The monkey bridge is constructed using two sheer legs and bridged with a hawser and handrails secured using pickets.
Beneath the water, the hawser that anchored the buoy ended in a noose, with Michele's neck inside it.
On the CCGS Sir William Alexander, the towing hawser was led through the aft centerline fairlead and secured around the towing bollard.
It was decided to use the port anchor cable as a hawser, but, as the weather further deteriorated during the evening, the operation was delayed.
The bowsprit was a long, graceful lance, reaching out above his head, but the anchor cable plunged into the water beside him, and he laid a hand on the thick hawser.
We sent boats with ropes and hawsers to the rocks, wound a rope round a rock, made a hawser fast to the rope, and swung to it with a length of hawser.
There was a tense moment when a sharp snapping sound rang through Ready but it was only one of the guide ropes that guided the steel hawser back onto the drum giving way.
The bow is impressive and very photogenic, with the exposed starboard anchor still housed and its hawser and mooring bollards easily distinguishable.
Again, the rescuers fired a thick hawser, what could prove a life-line, to the Carelmapu, but this plan was not in the cards.
The old forestry trades, timber rafting, charcoal making, hawser making and wood cutting have left their marks on the landscape.
The L'ACADIEN II took a measurable sheer to port, struck a solid and sizable floe of rafted ice, and was forced onto her starboard side by the diagonal pull of the towing hawser.
Simultaneous measurements on a flap and on the hawser of a pop-pop boat have shown that the thrust indication given by the plate is overestimated.
Measured by comparing the figures of the towing gear certificate provided by the manufacturer with the line remaining after the towing hawser was cut at the scene of the accident.
The size of the towing hawser itself was not ideal in that it was very nearly impossible that it would part under strain, given the light displacement of the towed vessel.
Following the occurrence the owner installed additional vertical guides at the after and forward end of the net hauling hawser to prevent the line from riding over the rollers and striking a person.
Examples from Classical Literature
If a small line could be got across from ship to ship, the end of it would be made fast to a coir hawser in the Monsoon.
To get her off, the launch was hoisted out, and the kedge anchor with a hawser, was put into her.
Whether any saved themselves on it, the two clinging to the hawser could not see.
The hawser had but just been loosened from the bitt when the drag of the waters began.
The recoil was taken up by a heavy hempen hawser fastened to the bulwarks and passed through the cascabel of the gun.
The strain on the Miami was extremely great, but the hawser held well, although the Northwestern yawed frightfully.
Judson was watching the last hawser slipping through the fairlead.
At the other end was a hawser which the boat now towed towards the rock.
Leaping on to it, the boatswain and Lizard made fast the hawser.
The brave mate was seen to cling to the hawser, and work his way back.
The hawser, however, parted, and with it the last hope of escape.
But how do you make a leaf into a cord, a hawser, a sail, or a bag?
Stand fast, secure all, when a hawser has been sufficiently hauled.
A contrivance for sending a hawser from a stranded vessel to the shore.
Would the hawser reach across this flux and reflux of death?
Among other things they had brought a kedge anchor and a hawser.
There are no waves lapping, but only a steady swirl of water softly running against the hawser.
A trawler was employed to tow a submarine by a submerged hawser.
To expedite this proceeding we got another hawser carried on shore.
The hawser was as taut as a bowstring, and the current so strong she pulled upon her anchor.
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