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The Tugboat Roundup is a gathering of tugboats and other vessels in celebration of maritime industry. The Waterford Tugboat Roundup is held in the late summer at the confluence of the Hudson and Mohawk Rivers in Waterford, New York. The tugs featured are river tugs and other tugs re-purposed to serve on the New York State Canal System. [15]
The USCG 65' small harbor tug is a class of fifteen tugs used by the United States Coast Guard for search and rescue, law enforcement, aids-to-navigation work and light icebreaking. The tugs are capable of breaking 18 in (0.46 m) of ice with propulsion ahead and 21 in (0.53 m) of ice backing and ramming. [ 2 ]
Edward J. Moran is a tugboat built in 2006 by Washburn and Doughty Associates, in the port of East Boothbay, Maine. [1] Built for the Moran Towing Corporation of New Canaan, Connecticut, [1] [2] the tug was profiled in Popular Mechanics as "the world's most powerful tugboat."
Since Aiviq is an anchor handling tug and supply vessel, she is fitted with a large towing winch located amidships as well as chain lockers and storage tanks for both liquid and dry bulk cargo under the main deck. [61] Her gross tonnage is 12,892, net tonnage 3,867 and deadweight tonnage 4,129 tonnes. [1]
John King was built for C.J. King and Sons Limited [2].She was the second diesel engined tug built for them after the Volunteer, completed in 1934 [3].She was launched on 21st October 1935 [4] and handed over on 15th November.
In August 1991, Bristol Bay became the first Bay-class tugboat to receive a barge specially designed to perform aids to navigation work. The 120-foot (37 m) barge works with the ship to service more than 160 aids to navigation each year. USCGC Hollyhock and Bristol Bay were deployed for ice breaking at the St. Clair River, on 25 February 2019. [3]
Name Class Type Length Beam Draft Gross tonnage Status Main builder Operator ref Pioneering Spirit - Crane vessel: 382 m (1,253 ft) 124 m (407 ft)
The Bay-class tugboat is a class of 140-foot (43 m) icebreaking tugboats of the United States Coast Guard, with hull numbers WTGB-101 through to WTGB-109.. They can proceed through fresh water ice up to 20 inches (51 cm) thick, and break ice up to 3 feet (0.91 m) thick, through ramming.