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Definition of steam tug

steam tug
Tug Tug, n. 1. A pull with the utmost effort, as in the athletic contest called tug of war; a supreme effort. At the tug he falls, Vast ruins come along, rent from the smoking walls. --Dryden. 2. A sort of vehicle, used for conveying timber and heavy articles. [Prov. Eng.] --Halliwell. 3. (Naut.) A small, powerful steamboat used to tow vessels; -- called also steam tug, tugboat, and towboat. 4. A trace, or drawing strap, of a harness. 5. (Mining.) An iron hook of a hoisting tub, to which a tackle is affixed. Tug iron, an iron hook or button to which a tug or trace may be attached, as on the shaft of a wagon.

Meaning of steam tug from wikipedia

- 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...