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  • Thumbnail for Parasailing
    maximum height behind a 4-wheel-drive vehicle. The driver then releases the tow line; the parasailer flies down to a target area in an accuracy competition...
    10 KB (1,217 words) - 15:09, 13 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Roving bridge
    canal when the towpath changes sides. This often involved unhitching the tow line, but on some canals they were constructed so that there was no need to...
    3 KB (374 words) - 17:07, 16 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for SS L.R. Doty
    four-masted schooner Olive Jeanette which was being towed by the Doty until the tow line broke from the force of the storm. Seventeen crew members died. On June...
    6 KB (344 words) - 15:52, 21 September 2023
  • Thumbnail for HMS Syrtis
    submarine X9 to her target, then release it to perform its mission. However, the tow line between the two submarines parted en route, and X9 was lost with all...
    12 KB (1,274 words) - 06:20, 13 June 2022
  • Tampa attempted to tow Parr towards Halifax, NS. Parr broke away from the tow line on January 2 in a heavy gale. Tampa had to give up this attempt to return...
    5 KB (358 words) - 14:36, 15 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Rescue of the SS Danmark
    Danmark was carried away and the wire bridle of the tow line was ripped away. However, the tow line held, and the Danmark did not go adrift. Because...
    8 KB (1,328 words) - 11:22, 9 February 2024
  • Thumbnail for Samson (crane barge)
    an RAF Sea King flying from RAF Brawdy, after attempts to reconnect the tow line failed. The barge eventually ran aground at Rams Head, Ardmore, County...
    4 KB (202 words) - 14:40, 10 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for BQM-147 Dragon
    recovery, the parasail is used to lift a tow line into the sky, with the tow line trailing a series of recovery lines hanging between the parasail and...
    7 KB (935 words) - 02:51, 11 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for New Carissa
    An attempt to tow the bow section of the ship out to sea failed when the tow line broke, and the bow was grounded again. Eventually, the bow was successfully...
    39 KB (4,417 words) - 17:13, 27 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Miztec (schooner barge)
    of the turn, stranding the Miztec and Peshtigo in the storm, and then the tow line between the two barges broke. In an effort to reach the lee of Whitefish...
    12 KB (1,321 words) - 12:57, 20 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Richard Holyoke
    the towline. Holyoke misunderstood Captain Roberts’ signal to cast off the tow line, so it had to be cut lest the sinking Clallam drag Holyoke down with...
    8 KB (988 words) - 05:23, 20 December 2022
  • in their life raft. That afternoon, however, Strand unexpectedly cuts the tow line, leaving Alex and Jake adrift on their raft, to the horror of the rest...
    6 KB (705 words) - 13:12, 5 April 2024
  • Somerset. Star of Hope  United States The steam barge was wrecked when the tow line to the tug Burlington ( United States) parted in heavy weather and she...
    31 KB (564 words) - 03:43, 22 September 2023
  • to use a decoy trawler to tow a submarine. When a U-boat was sighted, the tow line and communication line was slipped and the submarine would attack the...
    5 KB (503 words) - 07:25, 14 January 2024
  • to use a decoy trawler to tow a submarine. When a U-boat was sighted, the tow line and communication line was slipped and the submarine would attack the...
    6 KB (525 words) - 00:07, 3 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for SS Alkimos (1943)
    Reserve from Hong Kong. Only a few hours out of port, on 31 May 1963, the tow line gave way and Alkimos was driven onto the shore. Although the ship remained...
    10 KB (826 words) - 16:25, 1 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Free flight (model aircraft)
    When the model is at maximum speed overhead, the tow line is released and a mechanism frees the tow line from the model which then starts a pre-programmed...
    19 KB (2,705 words) - 17:50, 9 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Battle of Whampoa
    tree branches, opened fire on the ships. Lt. Symonds immediately cut the tow line, the boats sailed towards the shore and the boat crews landed. The battery...
    4 KB (414 words) - 05:11, 31 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Order of the Rose
    favorite, he personally drove the carriage when, on Lavradio Street, the tow line was broken, and the horses became frightened, breaking the reins and...
    14 KB (1,391 words) - 22:38, 29 May 2024
  • to use a decoy trawler to tow a submarine. When a U-boat was sighted, the tow line and communication line was slipped and the submarine would attack the...
    6 KB (517 words) - 00:08, 3 July 2024
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