Tugboat

A tugboat or towboat is a type of boat that maneuvers other vessels by pushing or pulling them. This is done either by direct contact or by means of a tow line. Tugboats typically move vessels that are restricted in their ability to maneuver on their own, such as ships in a crowded harbor or a narrow canal, Also, vessels that cannot move by themselves, such as barges, disabled ships, log rafts, or oil platforms.

Tugboat Media

• CSSTeaser.jpg

  Tugboat CSS Teaser is captured by USS Maratanza.

• Tug Boat NY 1.jpg

  Justine McAllister, a tug boat in New York Harbor, January 2008

• MarcusHookTugs.gif

  The tugboats Reid McAllister and McAllister Responder push the LPG tanker BW Volans into port at Marcus Hook on the Delaware River.

• Fleet tug USS Tawasa (1,255 tons, 205 ft), which towed a nuclear depth charge as it was detonated in Operation Wigwam in 1955

• Tug and Barge -- New York Harbor (NY) April 2016 (26621401834).jpg

  Articulated tug and barge (ATB)

• Svitzer Tyr - Ystad-2018.jpg

  Svitzer Tyr, a Danish tugboat, built in China in 2011, pictured in 2018 in Ystad harbour

• Tug boat pushing log raft near Vancouver.jpg

  River tug pushing a log raft in British Columbia near Vancouver (May 2012)

• Arakawa tugboat - 2019 3 25.webm

  A tugboat on the Arakawa River in Tokyo, Japan

• Tugboat diagram with modifications

• USN Tug Red Cloud YTB-268.jpg

  Red Cloud (foreground), a type V2-ME-A1 tug, alongside USNS David C. Shanks, outside the Oakland Bay Bridge in San Francisco Bay, California, 1950s. On the bow is a traditional rope tugboat fender.