Abstract: An arrangement for towing a disabled ship comprising a wire on a wire drum having an axis extending in a longitudinal direction of a ship at the stern or stem of the ship, the wire being permanently connected with the ship at one end behind the drum and at the other end with a painter, the painter being a buoyant line stored in a magazine in which it is coiled without being twisted, the magazine being placed between the wire drum and a launching pipe for a buoy with which the other end of the painter is connected wherein the buoy is inflatable and connected with and encapsuled in a box in the form of a floating anchor, the box being launchably mounted in the launching pipe.