It was far from being an easy business to get this great length of hawser in and the anchor off the bottom.
My attention has been called to recent accidents which have resulted from the stretching of steel hawsers across highways.
The second mate of a timber vessel discharging overside had his leg caught in a noose in a wire hawser.
He also rigged wire hawser across the hatchway to form a support for men to stand on whilst the compartment was flooding.
There is no other redress for the fishermen as the hawsers and buoys in these instances carried no identification.
Is it to enable submarines to be raised by a hawser?
It might be unreasonable to insist on the oil companies being the only outfits which should positively mark hawsers.
Is he aware that it looked ludicrous a few weeks ago when he tried to limit answers about broken hawsers on a submarine?
