towboat ,

At some point she was assigned work as a towboat.

The towboat is about to pass us going in the opposite direction.

Like many towboat operators in the area, they said, he had no formal training.

They were probably something in between small towboats and crash-wagons.

It would ground barges and towboats when the river was low in the summer.

As the towboat passed her position she looked down on its stern deck.

"We put a launch over the side and follow the towboat.

"Somebody just took a dive off the ship onto the towboat."

"The gunners on the towboat will cut them to pieces."

Inside, maybe three dozen people were climbing off the towboat and into the trucks.

Some barges cannot move themselves, and must be pushed or pulled by towboats.

He was especially intrigued by the barge and towboat alongside.

"Your decision to jump on the towboat came so fast none of my crew or I got dinner."

Without the weight of the barges to slow it down, the towboat seemed to race across the water.

When the barge was secure, they leaped back on board the towboat.

The towboats cut their lines and the vessel's anchors dragged.

He later boarded a towboat and, he said, pulled 35 to 40 people from the water.

Those barges could turn that towboat over like it was a paper cup."

Behind the stern of the ship lay a barge and a towboat.

Their anger at not being able to pound the towboat turned vehement.

In 1915 the vessel was converted to a towboat.

It is the largest diesel towboat on the river.

In fact, the object was not a towboat but the seven-foot-high bridge.

"That's about the time a new towboat is supposed to be coming out of the shipyards.

"Nothing shady about a towboat crew carrying arms," said Stewart.

Tugboats now work 24 hours a day, seven days a week.

I never wanted to be the captain of a tugboat.

Of these, the tugboat Cornell is the last in service.

If they have tugboats, then someone in the local government regime is probably involved.

This job was carried out by a group of men that worked with a tugboat.

But then it became clear the tugboat was moving in this direction.

"It used to be like trying to move a large ship with a tugboat," he said.

A few minutes later the old tugboat pulled away from the dock.

The island, complete with living trees, was pulled by a tugboat.

Larger pieces were brought to the construction site by tugboats.

A week later, a pilot's body was found by a passing tugboat.

With a tugboat race, a pushing contest and other activities.

The company did, however, retain its interests in Tugboat operations.

Just as he is about to depart, another tugboat returns.

And how does he know that his is the only private-use tugboat in the world?

But the navy has only three small tugboats here, and whether they will have the strength required is not clear.

A. Brown, a tugboat captain, the devastation will be no small thing.

Gives a brief history of tugboats from the steam age to the present.

What attracted his attention first was the fact that one so rarely saw tugboats at all, and then they were never alone.

Or maybe someone had fallen in the river and the men on the tugboat were going to rescue him.

It was a tugboat, and he was fine with that.

When she came in, a tugboat guided her into Boston harbor.

Last week it was transported, with the help of a tugboat, to its new home on Pier 63.

The others looked down and saw a small white barge, coupled to a green tugboat.

Every one of the crew on board the ships and tugboat is missing.