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  • Thumbnail for Foul (nautical)
    applied to many nautical situations: Foul hawse — when a ship lying to two anchors gets the cables crossed. Foul bottom — in reference to a seafloor that...
    3 KB (387 words) - 03:47, 15 June 2024
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    letting-go (dropping) the anchor, keeping an anchor watch, clearing a foul Hawse, weighing anchor and securing anchors for sea. Most commercial vessels...
    27 KB (3,285 words) - 02:46, 23 June 2024
  • stays, we took down two hawsers from the fore, passing them in through the hawse-holes and setting them up there. Hodgson also shows a certain playfulness...
    20 KB (3,164 words) - 14:39, 8 June 2024
  • an egg") hatch ("gate") hate hatefilled hateful hater hath hatred have hawse hawthorn hay haycock haymaker haymow haynet hayrick hayseed haystack hayward...
    156 KB (6,675 words) - 19:56, 13 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Franklin's lost expedition
    Gulf near King William Island: a wooden object, possibly a plug for a deck hawse, the iron pipe through which the ship's chain cable would descend into the...
    126 KB (13,995 words) - 08:07, 8 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for HMS Tremendous
    raking fire along the length of the ship. With this change, the bow frames (hawse pieces) were continued all the way up to the forecastle, as had been the...
    13 KB (1,297 words) - 15:51, 27 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for USS Aroostook (1861)
    .." and another "...through the starboard bow one foot above the sheet hawse hole"—suffered no personnel casualties during the engagement. For the next...
    24 KB (3,351 words) - 09:02, 9 November 2023
  • Thumbnail for ST Koraaga
    winch was fitted, and an anchor of the stockless type housed in a long hawse pipe. An iron breakwater was also fitted to divert the sea when the vessels...
    29 KB (3,863 words) - 14:34, 4 May 2024