Tugs Booms & Barges
ISBN 0-921107-08-0
$19.95 U.S.
Contents
Chapter 1 Tugs and Machinery Page 1
The types of tugs used in Puget Sound and British Columbia from steam boats to tractor tugs. The machinery that drives them.
Chapter 2 The Towboat Men Page 33
the crews and what they do. The navigators and how the navigated before electronics. The tool and some of their history.
Chapter 3 Working with Ships page 55
Docking and towing of Ships.
Chapter 4 Logs to Log Barges page 61
towing log booms along the coast. The development of the log barge.
Chapter 5 Scows and Barges page 87
the wooden scow to the large steel barges of today. Types of cargo shipped by barge.
Chapter 6 Shore to salvage page 115
The shore establishment. other types of work tugs do. Salvage.
Index