- Some are ocean-going, and some are
icebreakers or
salvage tugs.
Early models were
powered by
steam engines,
which were
later su****ded by
diesel engines...
- The
steam tug Echo
operated in the
early 1900s on
Puget Sound. Echo was
built at
Tacoma in 1900 by
Crawford and Reid for
Captain O. G. Olson. Echo was...
-
historic steam tug in Lyttelton, New Zealand. She was
ordered by the
Lyttelton Harbour Board in 1906 as a
replacement for the
earlier iron
paddle tug Lyttelton...
-
Steam Tug Wattle is a
steam-powered
tugboat in
preservation at Melbourne, Australia. The
tugboat was
constructed at ****atoo
Island Dockyard during the...
- deal. The
gunboat was then sold into
civilian service as a tugboat. As the
tug Polly, the ship
worked along the
northwest coast of
North America. During...
- by
volunteer crews).
Three steam tugs survive, in
addition to
three former Army
tugs later used for
other purposes. The
steam tugboat Edna G is in retirement...
- Elk was a
steam tug that
operated on
Puget Sound, and earlier, from 1880 to 1896, on Lake
Washington under the name of Katherine. Elk was
originally constructed...
- furnaces.
Steam tug Mayflower,
Bristol Industrial Museum Baltimore, of 1906, at the
Baltimore Museum of Industry, is the
oldest working steam tug in the...
- the
Battle of Trafalgar,
being towed up the
Thames by a paddle-wheel
steam tug in 1838,
towards its
final berth in
Rotherhithe to be
broken up for s****...
- bow
thrusting capabilities that
reduced the need for
tug ****istance.
Built at a time when
steam paddlewheels were
giving way to more
modern propulsion...