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A vessel shall not be permitted to navigate in the Port's channels or entrance unless propelled by her main engines or assisted, when necessary, by an efficient steam or motor tug or tugs. The Deputy Conservator may in the event of insufficient propelling power being provided by the master or owner, or in any case in which he considers it desirable to do so. employ the Board's and any other available tug or tugs for duties in connection with any vessel navigating the channels or entrance or berthing and unberthing; and the master or owner of every such vessel shall pay hire charges for the use of any tug of the Board in accordance with the rates fixed from time to time in this behalf and shall also pay for the use of any other tug engaged at such rate as the owner of the tug usually charges for a similar work.