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228 stories matching tug
- The Ghost of the Tug Mystic
After being run down by a larger ship and sitting on the bottom of Puget Sound for months, the tug Mystic becomes the subject of a legal tug-of-war.
- Midnight Collision on the Sound
A steam tug towing a barge is struck by an ocean-going ship in the dark of night, leaving the tug's crew scrambling for their lives.
- The Cross-Border Tugboat War
Canadian tugboat operators are fuming over an unfair trade imbalance as American vessels dominate regional shipping routes.
- Tugboat Captains Sue for Massive Salvage Fees
A collision between the Willamette and the Premier led to a $20,000 legal battle over rescue services rendered near Whidby Island.
- The Blast at Mason Slip
A steam tug carrying three crew members is obliterated in a freak explosion on the Seattle waterfront.
- The tugboat captain who challenged a federal marshal
When the captain of the tug Tacoma ignored a U.S. marshal's order to stop a libeled ship, the law caught up with him at the McNeil Island penitentiary.
- The Relentless Fate of the Tug Blanche
For the fourth time in a single year, a local tugboat has met a watery end at the Seattle Lumber company wharf.
- The Tug-of-War at the Pioneer Square Celebration
A grueling contest of strength between Coast Seamen and Longshoremen turns the Fourth of July into a high-stakes spectacle.
- Local Tug Sold for Cross-Border Rivalry
A Port Townsend tugboat is sold to British Columbia interests to break the monopoly on regional towing business.
- The Long Road Back to San Francisco
After months of legal battles and a literal tug-of-war, a man wanted in California is finally extradited.
- Longshoremen Win 17-Minute Pioneer Place Tug-of-War
Thousands pack Pioneer Place to watch a grueling seventeen-minute battle of strength between Seattle’s longshoremen and sailors.
- The Tugboat Race to a Distant Sail
Off Cape Flattery, crews raced rivals for incoming ships and went months without seeing home — while rum-drunk gulls kept them company.
- The Battle for the Bark Elsinore
Striking sailors trail a tugboat in a high-stakes effort to prevent non-union labor from shipping out.
- The Great Tugboat Escape
A United States marshal is left stranded on the wharf while his prisoner escapes aboard a government tug to Port Townsend.
- The Steam Tug That Sailed Like Clockwork
After a major refit to repair hurricane damage, the sturdy steam tug 'Sehome' proves its mettle on a high-speed run between Seattle and Port Blakely.
- The Great Editorial Tug-of-War
When the National Editorial Association arrived in the Sound, Seattle and Tacoma engaged in a petty, comical, and highly public battle to 'kidnap' the visiting editors.
- The Uncharted Drift of the Little Lorenson
A schooner, untethered by high winds, nearly wreaks havoc in the Seattle harbor after snapping its lines near the waterfront.
- Thirty Hours Adrift Off West Point, Waving a Coat at Half-Mast
A passing steamboat captain spots a dismasted sloop wallowing off the Magnolia bluff; the tug Mayflower goes out and brings back a man who had run out of food, water and luck.
- Search for Missing Tugboat Crewman
Anton Anderson, a deckhand on the tug Holyoke, vanishes into the cold waters of Port Townsend after a night on shore.
- The tugboat blockade at Grays Harbor
A local editor exposes a corrupt tugboat manager for sabotaging a critical federal survey of the harbor bar.
- The Formosa Runs Aground in Bellingham Bay
A lumber-laden ship bound for Peru is stuck in the mud off Deadman's Point after a tug takes the wrong line—and her captain says the tug will pay.
- The Night the Hue Jacket Struck the Tacoma
A federal admiralty complaint lays out a Strait of Juan de Fuca collision, a missing lookout, and a $15,000 claim against a square-rigged ship.
- The Prohibition Tug-of-War in Colfax
A Whitman County sheriff’s liquor seizure tests the limits of state law, pitting authorities against the express company in a legal standoff.
- The Big River Never Came Back
A tug captain spots a wreck on the Grays Harbor bar and identifies it as the overdue schooner Big River, lost with five hands.
- The Tragedy of the Tug 'Mogul'
A young seaman from Maine loses his life in the waters of Port Townsend after a fatal fall from his vessel.
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- The Tug That Sank at Her Own Moorings
The Defender goes down in ten feet of water off the Pend Oreille landing while low water ties up log barges on the bars and fog strands a sixty-passenger steamer below Boundary Island.
- The Great Fleet of the Northwest
As Seattle's harbor crowds with vessels, a maritime shift signals a new era for local tugboat commerce.
- The Peril of the Deep
Divers and engineers battle immense pressure to raise a sunken tugboat from the depths of the bay.