Wednesday, April 29, 2026

Steam tugboats

 Steam tug Pioneer among the squareriggers it guided to moorings at Port Gamble lumber mills in Puget Sound. Makes me wonder, how did these ungainly cargo vessels negotiate harbours and docks before tugboats?

 

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

I think they anchored out in comfortable waters, and that getting their contents to shore was a waterborne industry unto itself.
--rats, conjecturing wildly