towage

Example Sentences

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The brokerage sees the merger as creating Indonesia’s largest listed towage and pilotage platform.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 6, 2026

Finding our speed too much diminished, by the towage of two heavily laden vessels, we cast off one of them—the Cuba—during the night and directed the prize-master to make sail, and follow us into port.

From Memoirs of Service Afloat, During the War Between the States by Semmes, Raphael

"And in return—" "I'll tear up the deadly document I extorted from Murphy and report a mere towage job to my owners."

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

Here's where we collect the towage bill on the S.S.

From Captain Scraggs or, The Green-Pea Pirates by Grant, Gordon

It saves millions of dollars in towage to London alone every year.

From Among the Forces by Warren, Henry White