Word: tugboat
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week a battered old hulk was towed into Sturgeon Bay, Wis., to the din of saluting tugboat whistles and cheering throngs along the shore. The ugly hulk was the 600-ft. ore freighter George M. Humphrey, rusty red from 15 months under water. Her pilothouse had been crushed and her funnel twisted by the winter ice; the ripping current had torn off layers of paint, left her rail in tatters and smashed in the bulkheads. But to all of Sturgeon Bay (pop. 5,439) and especially to stocky, blue-eyed Captain John Roen, she was as worthy...
Liquidation. Valdasar Lopez put a hose in a tugboat tank, turned on a valve, relaxed on deck while the tug took on water. He awoke in Manhattan's North River after the tug went to the bottom...
...Sight. Six miles out from Galveston, in the Gulf of Mexico, a tugboat encountered a horse, swimming...
...hull was just off the ways of a little Newfoundland town. Half an hour after she slipped into the smooth bay she was outward bound, hitched to a tugboat, for a short haul to her outfitting port. The four men aboard her had food for two days, a small stove, a teakettle, an ax, lamp, nails and some rope...
When the gale struck, the tug captain, not seeing the land, steered out to sea for safety. Then the chain-cable towline parted. In the rising waves and wind, two emergency hawsers snapped. Then the hull drifted out of the tugboat's sight...