Utiliser "towline" dans une phrase

1. The Secretary of War suggests that if the navy will not undertake to break through, take a transport, cover the pilot-house in most exposed points with baled hay, attach an anchor to a towline, and if possible grapple the torpedo cables, and call for volunteers from the army to run into the harbour, thus making a way for the navy

2. The towline, which hung loosely off the front of the big barge, suddenly snapped taught