Hawser

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Supply ratings handling a coil of Script error: No such module "convert". towing hawser (rope) at the Royal Navy's Naval Stores Department, Nore, Harwich, which supplies all of the Royal Navy's sea-going ships with the stores and provisions that they need. Note that the coil is bigger than the men and they need a trolley to transport it.

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The hawser is coiled on deck.

Hawser (Template:IPAc-en) is a nautical term for a thick rope used in mooring or towing a ship.^[1] A hawser is not waterproof, as is a cable. A hawser passes through a hawsehole, also known as a cat hole,^[2] located on the hawse.^[3]

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↑ The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, third edition, Houghton Mifflin Company, p. 830 Template:Cite American Heritage Dictionary
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[1] The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, third edition, Houghton Mifflin Company, p. 830 Template:Cite American Heritage Dictionary

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[3] The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, third edition, Houghton Mifflin Company, pp. 829–30, Template:ISBN

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