towage

Example Sentences

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See if you can't get the charterers to pay the towage over to her loading port.

From Cappy Ricks Retires by Kyne, Peter B. (Peter Bernard)

Mostly to keep themselves occupied, they hunted paymetal, taking only the very best that they could find, to keep the towage mass down.

From The Planet Strappers by Gallun, Raymond Z.

This we were told would demand the towage of the engine over the last three miles.

From Sixteen Months in Four German Prisons Wesel, Sennelager, Klingelputz, Ruhleben by Mahoney, Henry Charles

It's up to the master of the tug very frequently whether, under such conditions, his task has been a mere towage job at the going rates or a salvage proposition to be settled in court.

From Cappy Ricks Or, the Subjugation of Matt Peasley by Kyne, Peter B. (Peter Bernard)

Sailing-vessels, however, require only a short towage, the docks being scarcely a dozen miles from Chesapeake Bay.

From Commercial Geography A Book for High Schools, Commercial Courses, and Business Colleges by Redway, Jacques W. (Jacques Wardlaw)