I turned my face aft, and crawled over the casks and came to under the main-hatch, where lay coils of hawser, buckets, blocks, and the like, but there was no pinnace, though here she had been stowed, as a sailor would have promptly seen.
"The Frozen Pirate"
W. Clark Russell
Their object, we found, was to tow us close enough to receive a hawser on board.
"Paddy Finn"
W. H. G. Kingston
A cradle was next rapidly constructed and fitted with ropes for hauling it backwards and forwards along the hawser.
"Won from the Waves"
W.H.G. Kingston