American Steam Vessels Series: Towboats and tugs
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File Size : 37,24 MB
Release : 1962
Category : Steamboats
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File Size : 37,24 MB
Release : 1962
Category : Steamboats
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Author : George Swede
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 28,93 MB
Release : 2010-09-30
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1453572392
The Steam Tug is a historical read about the evolution of the steam engine and steam tug. Developed and patented in England in 1737, the author takes the reader to the end of the roaring 1850s in New York Harbor. It was not until 1807 that Robert Fulton introduced the first commercially successful steamboat the “Clermont” on the Hudson River in New York. In the early 1800s sailing ships entering the harbor would lie at anchor in Sandy Hook for days and weeks waiting for wind to power them into the harbor so they could offload their cargo. Due to the expansion of shipping and commerce during the mid 1800s, sailing ships realized that small steam ferries operating between Staten Island and lower Manhattan could tow them into local wharfs to discharge their cargo and begin loading domestic goods to distant ports abroad saving valuable time. With the advent of large clipper ships, increased commerce and advanced steam boats, would lead to the rise and birth of a new industry, The Towing Business.
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File Size : 29,39 MB
Release : 1989
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Author : Chuck Fowler
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 34,65 MB
Release : 2009
Category : History
ISBN : 9780738559728
While square-rigged sailing ships, steamboats and ferries, and ever-larger cruise and cargo-carrying vessels have made their mark on Puget Sound's maritime history, no other vessels have captured the imagination of shore-bound seafarers like tugboats. Beginning in the 1850s when the first steam-powered tugboats arrived in the Sound from the East Coast via San Francisco, company owners and their crews competed fiercely for business, towing ships, log rafts, and barges. The magnetic attraction of powerful, tough tugs both large and small is unexplainable but enduring. This book, featuring about 200 rare historic images and carefully researched text, tells the colorful story of tug boating on Puget Sound.
Author : Franz Von Riedel
Publisher : Enthusiast Books
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 33,74 MB
Release : 2007-06-01
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 9781583881927
From the early days of commercial navigation on the waterways of the Great Lakes, tugboats have been needed to guide the ships in and out of the newly constructed ports. As the means of transportation progressed from wooden schooners to large steel steamships, the tugboat also grew in size. This book takes an in-depth look into the ancient practices of Great Lakes ice-breaking, ship-assistance and towing. At the turn of the century, the towing industry changed forever with the consolidation of fleets and the design of the low-profile powerful steam ship-docking tug. This "G-Tug" design has become known all around the world and these same 80-year old tugs are still the primary workhorse in most harbors on the Lakes today. Many other designs, unique to the fresh waters of the Great Lakes are profiled in this book. The severe climate of the Great Lakes region is brutal on the equipment and the tugs are built tough, for heavy ice breaking. A new class of powerful Coast Guard ice-breaking tugs came out in the 1940s. Today, many of these "WYTM" class tugs survive in commercial service on the Lakes. The Lakes have always been home to a large fleet of U.S. Army Corps of Engineers tugs. Additionally, U.S. Army auctions have brought many government-class tugs such as LTs, STs, and DPCs to the Lakes in the hands of private and commercial operators. In the rivers that feed the busy port of Chicago and all throughout New York State on the Erie Canal, a rare species of tug can be found-the famous "canallers" which are also featured in this volume.
Author : George Matteson
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 27,1 MB
Release : 2005-10
Category : Art
ISBN : 0814757081
Museum, brings his intimate knowledge of the boats, their work, surroundings, and crew to his account. The volume is oversize: 12x9". Annotation 2005 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com).
Author : Samuel Ward Stanton
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Page : 512 pages
File Size : 28,29 MB
Release : 1895
Category : Steamboats
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Author : Samuel Ward Stanton
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Page : 304 pages
File Size : 13,62 MB
Release : 1962
Category : Steamboats
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Page : 52 pages
File Size : 30,59 MB
Release : 1962
Category : Steamboats
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Author : Frederick Way
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Page : 144 pages
File Size : 24,26 MB
Release : 1946
Category : Steam-navigation
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