On the Hawser: A Tugboat Album
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| Rating | : | 4.63 (790 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0892720719 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 506 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 0000-00-00 |
| Language | : | English |
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Five Stars Great reference. Five Stars Awesome!. From a deckhand who was there,this is one terrific book. In one of my past incarnations,I was a deckhand on one of the tugs mentioned in your book,the Baleen.I not only was a crewmen on the Baleen,I was on her when she went down.Having spent a good portion of my life on tugs,I found this book to be an inciteful look into the world of tugs and towing.A must for all lovers of the sea and tugboats in particular. Thomas Blom
'On the Hawser', which incidentally is the tugboater's phrase that denotes a tug with a tow, is not merely a book of pretty pictures, but is also a reference volume that should have a place on every mariner's bookshelf. Here, for the first time, are photos and stories of many of the oldest and most famous of the American tugs as well as a representative selection of foreign tugs, especially the larger sea-going vessels that roam the world. Includes an extensive bibliography, a complete vessel index that reaches way back into the earliest steam tugs and more than 500 photos of tugboats at rest, at work, and their crews.". Rear dust jacket notes: "Tugboats, the workhorses of the maritime world, are seldom written about, much less pictured