tugboats in English

noun
1
a powerful boat used for towing larger vessels, especially in harbor.
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1. We had to berth our ship without the aid of tugboats.

2. 1 Tugboats and helicopters combed the area before the body was finally found.

3. To date there have been two children's shows revolving around anthropomorphic ( living ) tugboats.

4. 21 We had to berth our ship without the aid of tugboats.

5. 2 Five tugboats hauled the tanker off the rocks and into deeper water.

6. This sites offers Barges ships tugboats supply vessels Drydocks and other marine equipement for sale

7. 23 Then all three of the traders laughed together and sounded like a fleet of tugboats blowing their horns.

8. 22 The only traffic in the whole area consisted of chugging yellow Navy tugboats which emitted heavy black smoke from their tall stacks.

9. Operators of barges, tugboats and Bumboats (freight) KEPPEL SMIT TOWAGE Keppel Smit Towage Pte Ltd was established in 1991 under a joint venture between Keppel Shipyard Investments Pte Ltd [which is a part of Keppel Offshore & Marine under the umbrella of Keppel Corp] and Smit Singapore Pte Ltd [Which is a part of Royal Boskalis Westminster N.V

10. I love the salty air of a beach yet in a city, the families en route to baseball games, the soft clanking of the bus wires, the Ambitiousness of each small business, the commuters on bike and foot, the trees leaning out to keep guard over every block, the local art hanging in shop windows, the distant horn of tugboats in Puget Sound, the Queen

11. Grimy tugboats lay beside the traps, shrilling the air with creaking winches as they "Brailed" the struggling fish, a half-ton at a time, from the "pounds," now churned to milky foam by the ever-growing throng of prisoners; and all the time the big plants gulped the sea harvest, faster and faster, clanking and gnashing their metal jaws, while the mounds of salmon lay hip-deep to the crews that