The services include pilotage/towage, cargo handling and logistics support. The Port of Cork provides pilotage and towage facilities for vessels entering Cork Harbour. They include pilotage and port and terminal towage. Solent Towage, based at Fawley, operates four fire-fighting tugs. William also ran several steam tugs and a towage business on the river Thames. In addition to towage, the company developed shipping agency and tug barging activities. Managed by Overseas Towage & Salvage Co for MoWT. Sold in 1948 to Leith Salvage & Towage Co Ltd and renamed "E Nicholson". Another form of cargo transport was the towage of log rafts. Sold in 1946 to Overseas Towage & Salvage Co Ltd and renamed "Nereidia". Sold in 1946 to Overseas Towage & Salvage Co Ltd and renamed "Marinia". Together with their Bustler-class tug "Twyford", "Ashford" entered the rescue towage market. Sold in 1952 to Overseas Towage & Salvage Co and renamed "Marinia". Sold in 1967 to Tsavliris Salvage & Towage Ltd, Greece and renamed "Nisos Aegina". Sold in 1965 to Tsavliris Salvage & Towage Ltd, Greece and renamed "Nisos Lefkos".