They evidently assumed that some ship had towed us here and rehearsed us in the story to tell, in an attempt to play upon sympathy.

"Twenty ships back, towing a disabled mule."

Boats of the squadron towed them off the shore in country vessels and the ships towed the whole to the Livorno roads.

The two ships towed the tanker and succeeded in making up to five knots, overcoming the tendency to swing to port.

Whether our ship towed such a line, I did not know; but even if it did, it would have done me no good.

Such disabled ships as they could move at all they towed behind undamaged Pangan battleships.

She was attacked by 16 Danish gunboats, of which Phillimore managed to sink three before other British ships arrived and towed him clear.

The ship usually towed the steamer barge Santiago, which had a length of 324 feet (98.8 m), to increase the amount of cargo carried each trip.

On top of that, she has to suspect from our acceleration rates that our older ships are towing heavy pod loads.

The dinghy floated nearby with only a tag remaining of the heavy rope by which the ship had towed it.