tugboat

Definitions

Examples

• They blocked civilians from boarding tugboats by forming a blockade around the walls of the Malecón in the capital.

• Forty-four of the Jones Act fleet’s 57 tankers are sitting along the Gulf Coast or Eastern Seaboard, in addition to tugboats and barges.

• Woronowicz has been working on boats his whole life as a merchant mariner — on tugboats and cruise ships, now as a third mate on a Columbia University ocean research vessel.

• The days-long, round-the-clock effort to move the massive vessel involved sucking sand and mud from underneath its hull, as tugboats pushed and pulled the ship in confluence with a swelling tide.

• The positions of the Ever Given container ship and the tugboats are based on satellite imagery by Maxar, Airbus Space and Planet, as well as location data from VesselFinder.

• A tugboat improbably sits high on the bank, obscured by tall grass, a broken oil rig hangs over the water nearby.

• After airstrikes began, Libyan armed men seized an Italian tugboat in Tripoli used to service the coastal oil platforms.

• A half-mile or more distant from them a big, ocean-going tugboat was passing down the bay, without a tow and under full steam.

• I did not give up the venture there, however, but directed the captain of the tugboat to make directly for the island.

• A little abaft her beam a tugboat was blowing one long and two short, indicating her tow.

• It was on the tip of Mayo's tongue to argue the matter with the tugboat man, but he took second thought and shut his mouth.

• So the young man accepted Captain Dodge's invitation and climbed to the tugboat's pilot-house.