During daylight hours, recognizing a tow usually proves easy, although with a hawser ­stretching 200 meters or more between a tug and tow, inexperienced boaters might not associate one vessel with the ...

In June 1942, HMS Barrymore sailed out of the South African city of Cape Town towing a damaged corvette, HMS Bellwort. Our destination: Durban, on South Africa's east coast. I was a signalman on ...

The Hawser and Line were stationed in Bayonne, N.J., and the Wire was stationed in Saugerties, where they have served ever since. An officer-in-charge, typically a Chief or Senior Chief Petty ...