The well-known word 'tug' was soon brought into use from England, where it originated from the fact that the first towboat in the world was called The Tug.
In 1823 a towboat company was formed, and the Hercules towed the Margaret from Quebec to Montreal.
The towboat was doing her best; a nasty head sea remained from the last storm, and began to pick up as the wind veered to the northward and eastward.
This is Captain Potter, pilot, of the British steamship Santiago, burned at sea" Later that evening we took a towboat off the lightship, and clewed up our sails.
Will managed to "snap" the three boys straining at that clumsy big steering oar called the "sweep"; with the towboatapparently dead ahead.
They passed so close to the side of the towboat that any one of the boys might, had they so desired, thrust out a hand, and touched the planking.
She dismissed forthwith all fears she had entertained regarding Wotherspoon's prediction that "among the features of the dinner would be a lifelike imitation of a towboat skipper swallowing his knife.
The expense is less, as there is the hull of the towboatto buy when separate.
You should not calculate in selling either cabin, engine or towboat when ready to leave for the north, as prices in the south are uncertain; and if you have not invested in power you lose that much less if you desert your outfit.
Illustration: Barge and towboat designed for shallow rivers and low bridges in the United States] The plan upon which interest is now most centered is that officially recommended by the local office of the United States Engineer Corps.
That towboattailed us just the same, but we had the satisfaction of fooling him.
There was a sassy little East River towboat that wanted to give us a tow, but our skipper said it would be losing time to take sail off and wait for a line then.
If he is not there "on the hour" he must wait until another 60 minutes have elapsed before the opening of the gates, unless a towboat should happen along.
Astern was the towboat Crucible making her way into the lock with a steel boat in tow.
Before dinner was over the small towboat was in the harbor.
It'll be two hundred an' fifty dollars at the lowest figger, an' if you got that much credit with the towboat company you're some high financier.
Scraggs and a beachcomber like his mate Gibney make a pair of star-spangled monkeys out of said two towboat men and get away with it?
The towboat men held a council of war and decided to drown Scraggs out.
His best was not much but it served to keep Dan Hicks off Mr. McGuffey while the latter was disposing of Jack Flaherty, which he did, via the rail, even as the towboat men had disposed of Mr. Gibney.
Both Hicks and Flaherty had grown old in the towboat service and the rules of the road rested lightly on their sordid souls.
Before leaving New York Mayo made inquiries at offices of shipping brokers and trailed Captain Zoradus Wass to his lair in the loafers' room of a towboat office.
She is--" The towboat man was not enough interested to listen to statements concerning the Conomo's condition.
Your passenger is not going back with you, sir," he called down over the rail to the towboat captain.
Ain't so sure about that, sir," stated the towboat man, loafing into an easier attitude.
I wouldn't let the ship be held up by anybody, least of all a towboat man.
I tell you, Matt, there isn't the slightest use hanging round for us," Murphy warned the towboat skipper.
The towboat and the railroad had done their work, and done it well and completely.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "towboat" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: boat; canoe; cruiser; ferry
