Meanings of towboat in English

The towboat and the railroad had done their work, and done it well and completely.

Eastern Steamship Lines have changed the names of their steam-towboat Germania to George E. Weed.

The Coast Guard directed a commercial towboat operator to escort the private vessel back to Provincetown.

Mayo looked straight into the towboat man's eyes.

Captain Shevlin bounded up in the cockpit, cupped his hands, and yelled across to the towboat captain.

It could have been a towboat on the river, a car passing by underneath his windows, anything.

Paducah, Kentucky-based Marquette provides towboat services in the Mississippi River and other major waterways in the United States.

My little boat sailed on precarious financial waters, and I wanted to have a towboat around to keep it afloat.

It was their understanding that the towboat would come back for them in 3 hours, so they didn't bring their lunchboxes.

You're pushing it to the max every day. The towboat and its barges get about two hundred feet to the gallon.

No oceangoing tankers were affected by the accident involving the towboat Caroline and the towboat Miss Stacie, both of which were pushing barges.

Today you might watch for just as long, and see only one long procession of sealed barges, pushed by a single small diesel towboat.

A vessel-specific duty cycle is derived to characterize the towboat's operations; more than 50% of the time the vessel engines are at idle.

A towboat tows the container ship "Hamburg Express" as it arrives at the Port of Hamburg August 15, 2012.

The EPA-prescribed ISO E3 duty cycle does not accurately describe inland-river operations of this towboat: its application overestimates actual NOx emissions by 14%.

Tells about the freight haulage on towboats, & about the men who work on towboats.