Talk:Alice (1897 tugboat)

2011
Seattle Tugboats

Seattle has a long marine tradition. It goes back, with steamships, to the SS Beaver in 1835. The complex inlets of Puget Sound needed tugs to move sailing vessels against contrary winds. One early tug was the Goliah of 1849. Tugs would wait in the open Pacific off Cape Flattery to greet the sailing ships entering the sound to move lumber.

Additionlly, Seattle is a trading centre with commerce to ports at Oregon, B.C., and Alaska. The early lumbering and logging industry needed tugs to move log booms from the hillsides to the sawmills.

Thea Foss established Foss tug in Tacoma in 1889. Foss tugboats have the longest and most expansive history in the area. Many of the small logging firms had tugboats for mills at Port Gamble, Bellingham, Everett, and Olympia.

The Klondike Gold Rush spurred the need for seagoing vessels. Every floating vessel was put to use and more were built. With it came explosion of Alaskan Canneries and copper mines. Sea trade became important, as it is to this day, to a distant, disconnected northern state.

At the same time the U.S. Navy established a naval base at Bremerton, and more tugs were needed. Shipyards were established in Seattle and built battleships. Industry set up at tidewater (viz Boeing) on the Duwamish River estuary. Marine building expanded at Anacortes.

The entry of America into the First World War expanded the need for shipping. Aircraft spruce production expanded on the remote Olympic Pennisula, and Alaska. The United States Shipping Board built Hogg Islander ships.

West coast tugs were built of coastal Douglas Fir, with cedar upper decks. Condensing triple expansion engine and coal fired boilers were common. Hundreds of tugs worked the coastal waters of Washington state.

Tug Alice Mosquito Fleet Foss Waterway — Preceding unsigned comment added by 174.7.23.169 (talk) 11:30, 17 November 2011 (UTC)

Yacht Alice 1925


On the source page this image is labeled "Bolinder marine Yacht Alice 1925". Does this image have anything to do with this article "Alice (1897 tugboat)"? -- Andrew Krizhanovsky (talk) 05:51, 7 May 2024 (UTC)