The posts are used to secure mooring lines, ropes, hawsers, or cables. Mooring lines and hawsers may also be made by combining wire rope and synthetic line. Mooring is often accomplished using thick ropes called "mooring lines" or "hawsers". New towing hawsers and heaving lines would also be procured. The wooden pole is moulded as windlass and pulleys and hawsers are used for leverage. They used ropes and hawsers and went along dark corridors for several miles. "Dreadnought" and "Edinburgh" each had hawsers attached to "Victoria" so they could pull astern. The towing hawsers were cut and she sank in of water. Cables, hawsers, and a heavy chain attached these to the ship's stern. This enabled hawsers to be rigged with cradles for hauling people ashore one by one. Bruntons also supplied the hawsers for the Queen Mary in 1936. During the night, ten Maniots went and cut the hawsers of Hasan's ships.