Tugboats on Puget Sound

by Mark Freeman, Chuck Fowler, Capt. Mark Freeman

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0738559725
• ISBN13: 9780738559728
• Release Date: February 2009
• Publisher: Arcadia Publishing (SC)
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.4" x 9.1"