How To Use Tugboat In A Sentence
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Here, the wreck of a tugboat rests in its sandy Caribbean grave.
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From the tender age of twelve, my mother had been unable to start her day without the aid of at least two cups of immoderately strong, tar-black, unsweetened coffee, a taste for which she had picked up from the tugboat captains and zooty bachelors who filled the boardinghouse where she had grown up.
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My canal-side atelier is filled with the sights and sounds of tall-masted old sailboats and put-putting tugboats outside and that ochreous Dutch sunlight pouring in during the afternoon.
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Like a mad tugboat, my friend Michael nonetheless seemed eager to drag me to the event.
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Engine room artificers, boatswains, tugboat crews and quartermasters in the harbour master section (navigation branch) of the Sri Lanka Port Authority began an overtime boycott on November 12.
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A preliminary federal report says an idled tour boat and nearby vessels repeatedly called the tugboat guiding the barge that hit and sank the craft, killing two Hungarian students.
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Smaller boats, including tugboats can also be seen moving about on the river.
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Workmen at the docks were unloading the crates from the tugboats and cruises.
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More than 400,000 gallons of thick industrial fuel oil spilled just upriver from the Crescent City Connection in the collision early Wednesday morning between a tanker and a barge being pulled by a tugboat.
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‘The nearest boat to the tugboat was 40 nautical miles away and we managed to be there in about two hours,’ he said.
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It's a meadow, on a butty boat, towed by a tugboat, through the canals from Bath to London.
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He said the ship was being tugged to a shipwrecking yard when the tugboat's cables broke and high tides pushed the tanker to shallow water where it ran aground.
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The company wants tugboat engineers to take over some of the duties of deckhands.
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Then all three of the traders laughed together and sounded like a fleet of tugboats blowing their horns.
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At 5 p.m., a helicopter was summoned to airlift the crew from the ship while a tugboat owned by Smit Pentow Marine Salvagers, the John Ross, connected a towline to the carrier and began moving it further offshore.
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‘Some articles say that we just took them out in a tugboat and threw chum in the water,’ says Lau, laughing.
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Suitable types might include sailing barges, historic tugboats, a wartime landing craft, steam motor yachts, or even a retired lightship, submarine, or hydrofoil.
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But its hands are tied in key respects by international agreements, some several decades old, that give primacy to commercial shipping and make basic safety measures such as tugboat escorts optional rather than mandatory.
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The tugboat is Italian-flagged, but its ownership was unclear.
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The tugboat, carrying eight Japanese and six Filipino crew members, was attacked by armed pirates.
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The main issue in the dispute is pay equity with deckhands and cooks working on tugboats.
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Work to remove the partially sunken tugboat, which is west of the 10th Street Bridge, is expected to start in a couple of hours.
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‘If you look at the Chamber of Shipping, you have tugboat operators, you have agents, you have chandlers, you have training schools - all of these different sectors in that one association,’ Kee says.
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We had to berth our ship without the aid of tugboats.
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We dropped more flares to vector the tugboat to the raft.
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Now an expert team of astronauts and space scientists has blueprinted a safety strategy for Earth: an asteroid tugboat.
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The Maid of the Mist, in addition to having ties with local native folklore, is the tugboat that takes tourists down about as close to the bottom of Niagara Falls as anyone would ever want to go.
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The only other way to gelift boats to the continent would be by pushing them with a tugboat, which is a slow and possibly dangerous process.
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Many parked their cars along River Road and either set up chairs or stood and watched as a tugboat nudged the ship into place.
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We would skid the logs to roadside with horses, and then they were hauled to the lake where they were boomed, and a tugboat would take them to the mill.
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PHILADELPHIA (AP) - A preliminary federal report says an idled tour boat and nearby vessels repeatedly called the tugboat guiding the barge that hit and sank the craft, killing two
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Members of the tugboat and barge operators union will now have to vote on the proposed deal - a process that could take up to six weeks.
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Jamie, fifteen, a ninth-grader, heads for a different sort of after-school activity—one that involves hanging around outside a restaurant on Seventeenth Street in Chelsea, waiting with a dozen other paparazzi to see if Gabrielle Bloom, the star of the HBO series Tugboat Annie, will emerge with her new boyfriend, investment banker David Balkan.
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The bridge swings open so massive cruise ships and small tugboats can enter the harbor.
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There are stooping painted storks, immaculate spoonbills, small groups of dabchicks puttering about like busy little tugboats, and a pair of patrolling river terns, which I think are nesting on a mud-spit at the far side.
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Today, the poet wants to compose a pantoum about the Mariel exodus, about his voyage from Cuba to Key West on a tugboat piloted by deranged exiles.
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Whether single-screw, twin-screw, tugboat, catamaran, or classic monohull, the boats are tough oceangoing vessels that chug along for long distances.
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Whether single-screw, twin-screw, tugboat, catamaran, or classic monohull, the boats are tough oceangoing vessels that chug along for long distances.
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Some are oddities, such as miniature tugboats, Chinese junks and small pirate ships, but many are simply modern editions - old-fashioned styles - workboats, harbor launches, fishing trawlers and picnic boats.
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Y., to Providence, ran aground Friday afternoon after the tugboat pushing it was disabled by an unexplained explosion.
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Used for tugboat , transportation, timber floating and binding.
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Y., to Providence, ran aground Friday afternoon after the tugboat pushing it was disabled by an unexplained explosion.
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A deck hand was killed when a tow bridle unexpectedly became taut and pinned her against a tugboat railing.
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Bill filmed the tugboat landing at the edge of the dock and the people debarking.
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PHILADELPHIA - A preliminary federal report says an idled tour boat and nearby vessels repeatedly called the tugboat guiding the barge that hit and sank the craft, killing two
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He served on tugboats, steamships and automated ships.
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No one was onboard the tugboat, which is registered to F&A Enterprises in St. Augustine.
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Miraculously at midnight in the pitch dark a tugboat crew that had heard the broadcast found Hunter adrift in the shipping lanes and picked him up unhurt.
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Engine room artificers, boatswains, tugboat crews and quartermasters in the harbour master section (navigation branch) of the Sri Lanka Port Authority began an overtime boycott on November 12.
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Other ships serve as fleet ocean tugboats, fast combat support ships, oilers, ammunition ships, and combat stores ships.
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The tugboat tugged the freighter into the harbor
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(A retired tugboat captain at my rowing club calls kayaks “speed bumps.”)
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The port tugboat operation scheduling is a kind of parallel machines scheduling problem with special process constraint.
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The only traffic in the whole area consisted of chugging yellow Navy tugboats which emitted heavy black smoke from their tall stacks.
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Workmen at the docks were unloading the crates from the tugboats and cruises.
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To make matters worse, MacKenzie had been making as much noise as a tugboat captain all day.
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To date there have been two children's shows revolving around anthropomorphic ( living ) tugboats.
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The cool air as it rises and the welcoming bray of the tugboats passing reassure us that life on the river is as continuous as the days and nights that pull it along from mountain stream to flat delta shelves.
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The tugboat is truly multi purpose, as it can lead oil tankers into port, repair petroleum pipes in the sea and act as a standby rescue boat.
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In addition to the tugboat and its inflatable tender, we also had a small kaïki and skipper on site each day.
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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 fed the butchering machines.
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