Crossword-Solution: TOWBOATS 8 letters, 3 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 13

They were just well under way when, either by the merest chance or by malicious design, several of the rival Company's towboats moored to the neighboring ships cast off.

Hearing a confused shouting to shoreward, Boyd ran to the rail in time to see one of the Company tugs at the head of a string of towboats bearing down ahead of the current directly upon his own slow-moving lighter.

Farnum,” inquired the gunboat’s commander, “have you any towboats about here that can be used in helping me to get the ’Hudson’ off this sand ledge?” “The only one in near waters, sir,” replied the yard’s owner, “is a craft, not so very much larger than a launch, that ties up some three miles down the coast.

Ain't you proud o' your navigatin' officer, Scraggsy, old tarpot?" "I am, Gib, but I'll be prouder'n ever if you can follow them towboats in without havin' to claw off Baker's beach or the Point Bonita rocks." "Calamity howler," Gibney growled.

The environs of Conflans-fin-d'Oise are of a marvellous charm, but the immediate surroundings, great garages of coal boats and barges, coal-yards where towboats are filling up, and all the grime of an enormous water-borne traffic which here divides, part to go Parisward and part down-river, make it unlovely enough.