Hawser

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Supply ratings handling a coil of 16 inch towing hawser (rope) at the Naval Stores Department, Nore, Harwich, which supplies all sea-going ships with the stores and provisions that they need. Note how the coil is bigger than the men and they are having to use a trolley to transport it.
The hawser is coiled on deck.

Hawser is a nautical term for a thick cable or rope used in mooring or towing a ship.[1][2] A hawser passes through a hawsehole, also known as a cat hole,[3] located on the hawse.[4]

References

  1. ↑ The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, third edition, Houghton Mifflin Company, p. 830 (ISBN 0-395-44895-6)
  2. ↑ "Hawser at dictionary.com". 
  3. ↑ "Cathole at dictionary.com". 
  4. ↑ The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, third edition, Houghton Mifflin Company, pp. 829-830 (ISBN 0-395-44895-6)
Parts of a sailing ship


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