In a few moments the cause was known. The boiler of the steam-tug A.S. Field, lying at the dock between Bates and Randolph streets, had exploded, and the boat was a total wreck. Thither the ...
The wood steam tug sank in 1895, and its whereabouts have eluded people ever since. Decades ago, a local dive club even offered a $500 reward to find it. For years before their mission ...
The often-overlooked tugboat, as we know it today, was invented in the early 1800s as steam-powered workhorses of the water.
The steam tugboat Starlight was employed by the Government to convey the prisoners to Provincetown, Cape Cod, where they are to be transfered to the British gunboat Rinaldo, which arrived at that ...
As the wooden steam tugboat’s crew tried to grab a line from the I.W. Stephenson, the smaller vessel sailed in front of the bigger one—and the two ships collided. The John Evenson sank to the ...