Hawser

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Nautical mooring line

title: "Hawser" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["shipbuilding", "sailboat-components", "sailing-ship-components", "nautical-terminology"] description: "Nautical mooring line" topic_path: "general/shipbuilding" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawser" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0

::summary Nautical mooring line ::

::figure[src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/88/The_Royal_Navy_during_the_Second_World_War_A16341.jpg" caption="mm}} 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."] ::

::figure[src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/ab/Tugboat_diagram-en.svg" caption="The hawser is coiled on deck."] ::

Hawser () is a nautical term for a thick rope used in mooring or towing a ship. A hawser is not waterproof, as is a cable. A hawser is an anchor rope, located on the hawse.

References

[[The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language]], third edition, [[Houghton Mifflin]] Company, p. 830 {{Cite American Heritage Dictionary. hawser
"''Cathole'' at dictionary.com".
[[The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language]], third edition, [[Houghton Mifflin]] Company, pp. 829–30, {{ISBN. 0-395-44895-6

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