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Tugs and fleetmates Fischer Hayden and Meredith Ashton pushing barge Justin Avery down the St. Clair River
Taken during a photo walk around Vancouver, BC and during a walk along the Stanley Park seawall. A Tugboat cruising through the harbour.
Who wins? Sun or snow. Fortunately there is no question of victory or defeat in Nature. There is only co-existance
Shot at Sangla valley in Kinnaur Kailash district of Himachal Pradesh, India.
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Tug 'HT SAIPAN' heading seaward to aid in the movement of a barge under tow into the Port of Newcastle.
An opduwer or opdrukker is a small tug- or towboat that was used in the Low Countries to push barges on inland waterways. Opduwers were predominantly in use in the first half of the twentieth century. During that time the internal combustion engine got adapted for inland shipping. Earlier, barges were propelled either by sail or by towing from shore by horse or manpower. Fitting an engine and propeller to an existing barge was found cumbersome however. It was easier to construct a small tugboat and use this to propel the existing barge. Opduwers were built between about 1910 to 1940. A large number survive as pleasure craft.
The skipper of the barge was commonly also the owner of the opduwer so barge and tugboat formed a working pair. The barge was sometimes towed but most commonly pushed by the opduwer. The word opduwer literally translates to 'on-pusher' in English. When used as a pusher the opduwer was lashed to the stern of the barge and often controlled from the barge using a string or the boat hook. The opduwer offered additional advantages to the skipper as it could be used as a handy motorboat for various tasks and there was no noise or vibration from the engine in the barge itself.
The first opduwers of around 1910 were simple wooden rowing boats that had an engine fitted. Later opduwers were built on shipyards, often from material that was left over from the construction of large ships. Early opduwers were made of either wood or steel but later only steel was used. Common sizes were from 4.5 to 6 meters long and 1.5 meters wide, weighing between 1 and 3 ton.
One of the Moran tugboats out of Portsmouth reflects the sunset as it passes Whaleback lighthouse at the mouth of the Piscataqua River. Viewed from Great Island Commons Park in New Castle, New Hampshire; the lighthouse is just over the line in Kittery, Maine.
January 2016
Nikon P7100
So I'm helping a friend of mine with some research. I know my way around M.S. Excel and he, well, let's say he knows were to find the computers on/off switch. This research is about arrival of planes and the delivery of goods at the platform/gate, incoming as well as leaving. To get the goods from the depots to the platform they use tugs. And another source of inspiration was found...
The carts, as your trained eye detected immediately, are really simple, yet I'm quiet pleased with the elegance. The tug however, ain't so elegant. And neither is it simple. The snot work? There is not a direction it isn't going (Okay, no upside down).
A pair of Heritage Marine tugs help the Great Republic out of Howards Pocket while a Great Lakes Towing tug waits to assist the Boland.
60076 "Dunbar" is seen between Sudforth Lane Sidings and Whitley Bridge with 6H12 06:24 Tyne to Drax loaded biomass. 18/10/2018.
Tug/Barge Mary E. Hannah/A-410, scenic Fall afternoon view on the St. Clair River at Marine City, MI (November 11, 2018)
Old Tug Boat moored at the Bremerton Marina in Bremerton, WA. Photographed with a Leica IIIa using a Fed 50mm f/3.5 lens. The film is Kodak Ultra Max 400 Expired 02/2013.
Red Deer stag tugging at Oak branch, not sure why but maybe a habit hoping some fresh acorns might fall. :0)
A full hull model for display of a american style harbour tug. The model contains lots of details.
storage space on the front and rear deck. A slidingdoor to enter the detailed wheelhouse which also has a detachable roof for easy access.
There is a achor winch located at the bow and yellow engine underneath the funnel. Yellow so it must be a Caterpilar engine.
To be able to use this model in my harbour lay-out I made the underwatership in two pieces. you can easily lift off the the top part and put it in any lay-out.
A soldier with The Black Watch (Royal Highland) Regiment of Canada, stares down at his competition prior to picking up the rope for a Highland Regiments tug-of-war competition at the Glengarry Highland Games in Maxville Ontario.
In 1897, the Union Dry Dock Co. in Buffalo built a tugboat. In the years following, the tugboat sank (twice) and was raised, burned (twice) and was rebuilt. Today, after 118 strenuous years, the same tug is still at work in Milwaukee, deftly assisting far larger ships in and out of the port. When it comes to tough workboats, the Wisconsin is in a class all its own.
The Wisconsin, some say, is also haunted.Graced with elegant, flowing lines, the tugboat Wisconsin is the one of more than 35 tugs owned by Great Lakes Towing, which provides tugboat assistance, shipyard, and other marine services across the entire Great Lakes region including Milwaukee. Carl Swanson photo
In her excellent history Soul of a Port: The History and Evolution of the Port of Milwaukee (The History Press 2010) author Leah Dobkin relates several eerie encounters experienced by the Wisconsin’s crew. Dobkin also quotes the tug’s captain saying he isn’t troubled by talk of ghosts. If they exist, he said, they’re probably friendly enough.
Traditional-style tugboats are distinctive-looking vessels. They have wide, round, deep-riding hulls for maximum stability. The low stern keeps lines close to the water for safer towing. The small superstructure gives its crew plenty of deck space all around for line handling and allows the tug to nestle under the curving hulls of bigger ships.
It’s a purely functional design but its long-ago builders managed to give the Wisconsin elegant, flowing lines. More practically, this tug is known for its unusually good handling characteristics in rough weather (the Wisconsin is a good “sea boat,” in lake jargon).
Since tugboats are usually seen alongside much larger ships, it’s easy to forget that they are not necessarily small themselves. The Wisconsin is 83 feet long, 21 feet wide, and its diesel engine produces more than 1,000 horsepower.
For all its great stability and power, a tugboat is a potentially hazardous place to work. It performs the most demanding tasks in the maritime world, day or night, and frequently in harsh weather.
Ghosts are pretty far down the list of things tugboat captains worry about.
Even when you do everything right, tragedy can still strike. It happened to the Wisconsin.
In fall 1941, a freighter named the B.F. Jones with a capacity load of iron ore blundered onto a clay bank off the east end of Belle Isle in the Detroit River and stuck fast.
The Wisconsin – it was then named the America – her sister tug Oregon, and several other vessels were dispatched to free the grounded freighter. The Oregon tied a heavy towline to bow of the America, which, in turn, attached its towline to the Jones’ anchor. The two tugs started pulling the anchor further into the river as the big freighter slowly fed out anchor chain. Once the anchor was reset, the Jones could assist in pulling itself free by winding in its anchor chain.
It was 2 a.m. on Oct. 23, 1941. Some of the tugboat’s crew were at their duty stations, others were asleep in their bunks. Inexplicably, the Jones’ suddenly stopped feeding out anchor chain. Before the Oregon could react, the America, jerked to a violent halt, rolled upside down, kept rolling until it was right side up, and sank – all within five seconds.
Seven men aboard were rescued including the captain of the tug, who escaped by smashing the pilothouse windshield with his fists – seriously injuring himself in the process – and he dragged a company supervisor to the surface with him. Six others drowned in the submerged vessel.
Raised and repaired, the tugboat went right back at work.
On June 27, 1946, the future Wisconsin went to the assistance of the grounded United States Gypsum, stuck on a sandbar just off Marysville, Mich. As it maneuvered near the freighter, the tug ripped its hull open on an underwater obstruction and sank within minutes. There was no loss of life, not even an injury. Patched, pumped out, and towed to the Great Lakes Towing shipyard in Cleveland for an overhaul, the tug was soon back on the job.
In 1950, it was converted from steam to diesel power. In 1979, while docked in Detroit, arsonists broke in, poured gasoline throughout the interior, and set fire to the tug. When firefighters arrived, the boat was a solid mass of flame from bow to stern. Once the fire was extinguished, mechanics pumped out the water used to extinguish the fire, sealed doors and windows, and prepared it to be towed its parent company’s shipyard in Cleveland. The work took all day. That night, the arsonists returned and set fire to the tug a second time.
For six months the burned-out hulk sat in Cleveland. The tug was 82 years old. It had worked ’round the clock through two world wars but finally the end seemed to at hand. However, the management of Great Lakes Towing surprised many observers by announcing it would restore the boat to service. Renamed the Wisconsin in 1983, the tug has called the Port of Milwaukee home in recent years.
The year it was launched, 1897, Grover Cleveland was in the White House, Mark Twain was alive, and the Klondike gold rush was under way. Against all odds, the Wisconsin endures – not a museum piece, but a working craft.
Battered, bruised, sunk, burned, and haunted, it’s been an eventful 118 years – and the story of the Wisconsin has a few more chapters yet to be written.
“We have no plans to retire the tug Wisconsin, and expect it will continue to serve the Port of Milwaukee for many more years.”
Tow aging tug boats docked in Boston Harbor. In the background you can see two famous Boston landmarks. The mast of the USS Constitution, center frame, and the Bunker Hill Monument on the right.
Been pretty quiet around here lately...
I've been busy with classes and spending my creative energy elsewhere. So as I way to get back into building, here's my modern take on 1982's 4005 Tug Boat. It's probably my favorite set from an era I didn't live through. It has odd proportions, undersized for the plainclothes minifigure, and is boldly colored. I tried to let those idiosyncrasies inspire the build.
I'm pretty happy with where it ended up!
Everything is buildable, except for the buoy in the back :( Will build in the coming months.
Stud.io; render
Affinity Design: touch-up
The tug Cheyenne is downbound at Point Edward. The Fort Gratiot Lighthouse stands proudly across the river.