WATERFORD, N.Y. — This weekend marked the 25th annual Waterford Tugboat Roundup, drawing in individuals from the Capital Region and beyond to see tugboats, workboats and barges line the Erie Canal and ...

FAIRPORT, N.Y. (WROC) — A longtime advocate in preserving the Erie Canal is being honored with a new vessel taking on the historic waterway. A tugboat was unveiled on the Erie Canal in Fairport Monday ...

Both a long-time maritime industry and literal and figurative journeys are explored in Tug: A Great Lakes Odyssey, a photographic study by Steve Nelson. The exhibition centers on the tugboat fleet of ...

This Labor Day weekend, Olympia’s waterfront will host a series of tugboat races on the open water of Budd Inlet at the 52nd annual Olympia Harbor Days Festival, a free event that has become a ...

TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. (WPBN/WGTU) -- The historic tugboat Robinson Bay is on the move with a Great Lakes Maritime Academy crew on board. The tugboat was officially handed off to the Great Lakes ...

The 106-foot-long ship was built 1903 as a Milwaukee fireboat named the Laurence Turner and later converted to a tug. It was “Lake Class," assigned to long hauls across the Great Lakes, plus ice ...

COOS BAY — As the Coos History Museum inches closer to its grand opening, the museum has reached out to the city of Coos Bay to acquire the Tugboat Irene as part of a new exhibit. Frank Smoot, ...

Normally we don’t associate tugboats with disruption and chaos, but at a time when New York City’s shipping industry was king, the Tugboat Strike of 1946 threw the City into turmoil. The strike began ...

EUGENE F. MORAN, the president of the Moran Towing & Transportation Company, the largest tugboat operators in the world, is an anomaly to his associates. Elegant, fastidious, dressed in tailored ...