Tugboat
A tugboat or towboat is a type of boat that maneuvers other vessels by pushing or pulling them. This is done either by direct contact or by means of a tow line. Tugboats typically move vessels that are restricted in their ability to maneuver on their own, such as ships in a crowded harbor or a narrow canal,[1] Also, vessels that cannot move by themselves, such as barges, disabled ships, log rafts, or oil platforms.
Tugboat Media
Tugboat CSS Teaser is captured by USS Maratanza.
Justine McAllister, a tug boat in New York Harbor, January 2008.
Fleet tug USS Tawasa (1,255 tons, 205 ft) which towed a nuclear depth charge as it was detonated in Operation Wigwam in 1955
River tug pushing a log raft in British Columbia near Vancouver (May 2012)
A tugboat on the Arakawa River in Tokyo, Japan
Red Cloud (foreground), a type V2-ME-A1 tug, alongside Template:USNS, at the Golden Gate at San Francisco, California, 1950s. On the bow is a tugboat fender, also called a beard or bow pudding, which is rope padding to protect the bow.
References
- ↑ "How Pygmy Tugboats Dock a Giant Liner." Popular Science Monthly, March 1930, p. 22-23.