41. The towing machine uses a system to automatically pay-in and pay-out the towing hawser to maintain a constraint strain. 42. The hawser arrangement usually consist of nylon rope, which is shackled to an integrated mooring uni-joint on the buoy deck. 43. The towing machine uses a system to automatically pay-in and pay-out the towing hawser to maintain a constant strain. 44. Eventually the boarding party cut the hawser and the boats succeeded in pulling the felucca out, an operation they conducted under fire. 45. Two tugboats lashed to the casinos churn against the current to lessen the strain on the hawsers that hold the casinos to their moorings. 46. The " Northern Wave " attempted to tow the water-logged " Drake " but the hawser immediately snapped. 47. He attempted to capture her, but the crew boarded as he approached, and using hawsers hauled the schooner into the river channel. 48. A colleague guarding the hawsers cheerfully conceded that the workers, like the balloon, were going nowhere, but the balloon certainly was pretty. 49. On the tow in, the inch-and-a-quarter towing hawser snapped and almost killed my sail trimmer, Moose McClintock, 50. An hour later three British destroyers arrived and attempted to get two hawsers attached to " Sparrowhawk " to tow her to safety.
