Towage

(Cue phone call to The Darling G, phone call to local garage, purchase of towing cable, towage of Vectra to garage, signing of job sheet and pending Credit Card Ouch.) ❋ Dungeekin (2009)

Boskalis said that equipment utilization across its businesses was under pressure due to lower volumes and increased competition in the first half of the year, although its revenues rose 9.6% to €1.25 billion $1.80 billion due to last year's acquisition of towage and salvage company Smit. ❋ Robin Van Daalen (2011)

You bend it back on itself to make a nonsticky handle for towage. ❋ Unknown (2010)

All he had to do was to race off to his consignees and stop payment of the towage bill before Falk had the time to get in and lift the money. ❋ Unknown (2004)

And when we rose not a word had been said about towage! ❋ Unknown (2004)

But amongst men of his own stature, or nearly, this frank use of his advantages, in such matters as the awful towage bills for instance, caused much impotent gnashing of teeth. ❋ Unknown (2004)

He was sure to get his own extortionate terms out of me for towage whether he frowned or smiled. ❋ Unknown (2004)

Because of the alleged fraud a clause in the towage contract exempting the tug owners and charterers from liability for the loss of Bos 400, allegedly does not apply. ❋ Unknown (1995)

If necessary, we had to be ready towage that battle, and to do so in conditions of full success and victory, which are the conditions that were given there. ❋ Unknown (1988)

"Give any necessary instructions in regard to victualling and towage to the dockyard," he said. ❋ Shute, Nevil, 1899-1960 (1957)

Mostly to keep themselves occupied, they hunted paymetal, taking only the very best that they could find, to keep the towage mass down. ❋ Raymond Z. Gallun (1952)

The size of the screws or paddles is also limited by the nature of the river and its traffic, and with cable towage a larger number of barges can be hauled, while the progress made is definite and there is no drifting back, as occurs with paddle or screw tugs when they have temporarily to slow or stop their engines on account of passing vessels. ❋ Various (N/A)

We do not doubt that this system of towage might with suitable modifications be advantageously employed on the large rivers in America and elsewhere for the slow transport of large quantities of raw materials and other bulky merchandise, a low speed being, as is well known, much more economical than a high speed, as many of the resistances increase as the square and even higher powers of the velocity. ❋ Various (N/A)

Navigation on this river is interrupted for about half the year by the ice, and the traffic is of larger amount only during part of the summer, while the length of the river itself is very great, so that laying down permanent cables would not pay; while, on the other hand, the current is so strong that towage of some sort must be resorted to for the transport of large quantities. ❋ Various (N/A)

On several of the large rivers on the Continent, with rapid currents, cable towage has been introduced in addition to the older methods of transporting merchandise by sailing and steam boats or by towage with screw or paddle tugs. ❋ Various (N/A)

The problem has been solved by the introduction of the capstan navigation or towage. ❋ Various (N/A)

All would be charmed with towage by steam, if done with economy, dispatch, regularity and safety; but quite another feeling prevails under the suggestions of changing drivers for engineers, stables for engine-rooms, horses for machinery, and light cargos for full ones, as in case of converting the horse-boat to a steamer. ❋ Anonymous (N/A)

In the early era of steam, _the prominent policy_ was to combine towage with carrying capacity by the steamer, for economical expedition. ❋ Anonymous (N/A)

This we were told would demand the towage of the engine over the last three miles. ❋ Frederick Arthur Ambrose Talbot (N/A)