The first version of a tug boat was made in 1736 and patented by Jonathan Hulls of Gloucestershire, England, according to Britannica. This craft was powered by a Newcomen steam engine and intended ...

QUESTION What was Britain's first steam-powered ship ... Symington's tug, the Charlotte Dundas, dragged two loaded boats — Active and Euphemia, weighing upwards of 70 tons — a distance ...

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 citizens hurried by hundreds, clambering and ...

Officials hope a boat that once tugged cargo around the Chesapeake Bay will now tug tourists to downtown Carver. “Northwind,” a 33-foot-long steam tugboat built in 1890, found a new home in ...