Sentences with word «towboat»

«When I was injured working on the river, I chose the firm because I had heard they specialized in cases for the people working on towboats.

On the balcony sits child heaven: an authentic, 13 - ton towboat, scarred from its 50 years on the river.

Climb into the pilot house and take the helm, making sure you steer clear of the other towboats passing on the river below.

Murray Energy also engages in related business operations and activities, including owning and operating four mining equipment manufacturing and rebuild facilities along with a number of river, truck and rail terminals, and twenty - six river towboats and over 500 barges on the inland waterway system.

Dry land's misfits find purpose and direction twenty - eight days at a time as the steady hands of a towboat due for the port of New Orleans.

The towboat turned the prow into the wind and the mate called out, «Stand by for a starboard tack.»

Boat towing insurance covers the cost of a towboat going out to bring your vessel back to shore.

Through subsidiaries, AEP owns, leases, or controls more than 9,000 railcars, 726 barges, 18 towboats, and a coal handling terminal with 18 million tons of annual capacity to move and store coal for use in its generating facilities.

If you have been working offshore, aboard a ship, towboat, rig, crew boat, jack - up rig, or any other type of commercial maritime vessel you know it is difficult and sometimes dangerous work.

Hazards include the towboat's high horsepower, large winches and other machinery, towing lines, lifting heavy chains and shackles, slippery conditions, risk of falling overboard and being crushed by the dock when hooking up barges, among other dangers.

Boat towing insurance covers the cost of a towboat going out to bring your vessel back to shore.