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Chain boat and barges on the River Seine in France in the early 20th century. A chain boat, [1] [2] chain tug [3] or chain-ship [4] was a type of river craft, used in the second half of the 19th century and first half of the 20th century on many European rivers, [5] that made use of a steel chain laid along the riverbed for its propulsion.
Chain boat navigation. Postcard showing a chain steamer on river Seine in France. The caption reads "Conflans Sainte-Honorine – An arm of the Seine waterway. A train of barges.". A model of a German chain steamer on the Elbe. Chain-boat navigation[1] or chain-ship navigation[2] is a little-known chapter in the history of shipping on European ...
Chain ship on the Neckar near Heilbronn. Chain boat navigation on the Neckar was a special type of tugboat navigation in which chain steamers with several towed barges pulled along a chain laid in the river. It was used from 1878 between Mannheim and Heilbronn and from 1884 as far as Lauffen. Chain shipping considerably reduced the transport ...
Chain boat tow on the Main (ca. 1896) Chain boat of the Mainkette-AG in front of the "Mainkai" in Frankfurt After navigation on the Main had lost more and more of its transport capacity to the railway and the use of wheeled steam tugs had failed due to the shallow navigation channel of the Main, Heino Held, owner of the Mainz-based forwarding and coal trading company C.J.H. Held & Cie., had ...
Kirby Corporation, headquartered in Houston, Texas is the largest tank barge operator in the United States, transporting bulk liquid products throughout the Mississippi River System, on the Gulf Intracoastal Waterway, along all three U.S. Coasts, and in Alaska and Hawaii. Products transported by Kirby include petrochemicals, black oil, refined ...
Floating Bridge No 6, pictured, was first brought into service in May 2017. The Cowes Floating Bridge is a vehicular chain ferry which crosses the River Medina on the Isle of Wight, off the south coast of England. The ferry crosses the tidal river from East Cowes to Cowes. The first floating bridge between the two towns was established in 1859 ...
Saltchuk. Website. foss.com. Foss Maritime (formerly Foss Launch and Tug Company), is an American tugging company. The company was founded in 1889 by Thea Foss (1857–1927) and her husband Andrew Foss. The company is now the largest tug and towing concern on the west coast of the United States. On July 2, 2013, Foss Marine Holdings announced ...
GLT is the largest U.S.-flag tugboat company engaged in towing on the Great Lakes. [3] The company is widely referred to as “The Towing Company.” 1, 10 GLT provides services such as local harbor towing, docking and undocking, interport towing of vessels and barges, icebreaking, as well as rescue and assistance to grounded or damaged ships with a fleet of nearly forty tugboats stationed ...