Tugboats on Puget Sound - Hardcover

Fowler, Chuck; Freeman, Mark

 
9781531638610: Tugboats on Puget Sound
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 1531638619 ISBN 13: 9781531638610
Verlag: Arcadia Publishing Library Editions, 2009

Inhaltsangabe

While square-rigged sailing ships, steamboats and ferries, and ever-larger cruise and cargo-carrying vessels have made their mark on Puget Sound's maritime history, no other vessels have captured the imagination of shore-bound seafarers like tugboats. Beginning in the 1850s when the first steam-powered tugboats arrived in the Sound from the East Coast via San Francisco, company owners and their crews competed fiercely for business, towing ships, log rafts, and barges. The magnetic attraction of powerful, tough tugs both large and small is unexplainable but enduring. This book, featuring about 200 rare historic images and carefully researched text, tells the colorful story of tug boating on Puget Sound.

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Reseña del editor

While square-rigged sailing ships, steamboats and ferries, and ever-larger cruise and cargo-carrying vessels have made their mark on Puget Sound's maritime history, no other vessels have captured the imagination of shore-bound seafarers like tugboats. Beginning in the 1850s when the first steam-powered tugboats arrived in the Sound from the East Coast via San Francisco, company owners and their crews competed fiercely for business, towing ships, log rafts, and barges. The magnetic attraction of powerful, tough tugs both large and small is unexplainable but enduring. This book, featuring about 200 rare historic images and carefully researched text, tells the colorful story of tug boating on Puget Sound.

Biografía del autor

Chuck Fowler, a maritime historian, has written books about tall ships and tugboats and freelance articles on regional maritime heritage subjects. He is an Air Force veteran, past president of the Puget Sound Maritime Historical Society in Seattle, and has been active in many nonprofit heritage organizations. Dan Withers is a retired wireless communication executive and Navy destroyer veteran of the Vietnam War. He is founder and president of Combatant Craft of America, a nonprofit group dedicated to preserving warboat history, including the restoration of a World War II-era Coast Guard patrol boat.

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Verlag
Arcadia Publishing Library Editions
Erscheinungsdatum
2009
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1531638619
ISBN 13 
9781531638610
Einband
Tapa dura
Anzahl der Seiten
130
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