| Thicker hawsers followed, and it took no more than a few minutes to wrap them around the mooring bollards. |
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| Many of the ship's 625 passengers peered at the spectacle below, as the ship was moored along the pier and held by thick hawsers. |
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| The docks were littered with greasy, untidily coiled hawsers, tools, cargo and refuse. |
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| The bow is equally imposing, with two extremely large anchors still in their hawsers and a great deal of machinery and portholes to see. |
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| Fortunately, her dogs were tied to a tree by what appeared to be old tug hawsers. |
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| At about five-fifteen in the afternoon, the hawsers began to snap as the surge lifted the boats above the piers. |
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| Once the ground is thoroughly thawed, there they are, tugging on earthworms as though they were the hawsers of the S. S. Earth. |
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| Davier retrieves capella hawsers for the coffers while the Grand Bé pushes the Annemieke to port to keep her in line. |
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| The Greenpeace activists have also chained themselves to the hawsers that are securing the boat to the harbour. |
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| Hurricane hawsers are to be returned to the pallets provided when a ship singles up. |
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| The Portuguese discovered coconuts there, which cured the scurvy and enabled them to make hawsers for their caravels. |
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| 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. |
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| After a match, my Achilles tendons felt like hawsers on a rusty barge, and as I clomped back to work I'd get passed by map-consulting tourists. |
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| We pass black boot prints tarred with waste oil and a great heap of wharfish refuse, tangles of long-discarded fishing nets, thick manila hawsers. |
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| Secondary mooring: FOB anchors of 25 kg with 100 meters of hawsers. |
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| The hull of the tug pivoting in the notch acted as a fulcrum, overstressing and snapping the polypropylene hawsers on the bow, resulting in the separation of the tug from the notch. |
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| Abaca is chiefly employed for ships' ropes, hawsers, and cables and for fishing lines, hoisting and power-transmission ropes, well-drilling cables, and fishing nets. |
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| The Preußen was towed to Dover as a harbour of refuge, however a storm was brewing and the hawsers were simply not up to towing the gigantic sailing ship and were torn asunder. |
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| In conjunction with water, the thick coconut rope is reminiscent of ships' hawsers, and thus offers the possibility of using a sea voyage as the subject of play. |
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