pilotage

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This was said despite Ecology and the Board of Pilotage Commissioners evaluating the expanded use of tugboats to escort small tankers and oil barges in case of an emergency.

From Seattle Times • Jun. 4, 2024

And thus it came to pass that the Pilotage Provisional Order No. 1 Bill was read a Second Time.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 100, June 13, 1891 by Various

Pilotage a dollar a foot on the draft of each vessel.

From Astoria, or, anecdotes of an enterprise beyond the Rocky Mountains by Irving, Washington

In 1867, the Tyne Pilotage Board took the matter up.

From The Book of the Damned by Fort, Charles

Pilotage is five shillings sterling per foot; and the port-charges are so exorbitant as to prevent the entrance of many vessels, which would otherwise stop to try the market.

From Journal of an African Cruiser by Hawthorne, Nathaniel