Tugboat ELAINE FOSS
by James Williamson
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Title
Tugboat ELAINE FOSS
Artist
James Williamson
Medium
Painting - Watercolor
Description
ELAINE FOSS watercolor painting by artist James Williamson.
Artist James Williamson, ASMA
Signature Member of the American Society of Marine Artists
ELAINE FOSS vintage tugboat.
She was built as the light house tender LARCH and was not as heavily built as a regular tugboat. FOSS Maritime purchased the vessel and rebuilt the engine and drive installing a 250 hp Enterprise.
The Elaine Foss was built in St. Helens, Oregon in 1925 as the Larch for the U.S. Light House Service as a buoy tender on the Columbia River. She was purchased by the Puget Sound Bridge and Dredge Company in 1935 and was renamed the Loyal. The FOSS Tugboat company purchased the vessel in 1945 and after a major refit worked out of Seattle for the next twenty years. She was sold to the Annette Timber Corporation of Ketchikan and was renamed Trinity. On February 6, 1972, she sank near Prince of Wales Island in a storm. Michael Skalley, The ELAINE FOSS, ninety years of tow-boating
Tugboats Today
Originally the tugs' purpose was the towing of ocean sailing vessels to and from their intended docks. Today, mighty engines move ships, yet these ships continue to require assistance of these powerful and responsive tugboats in and out of docks throughout Puget Sound and around the world. The construction of today's tugboats includes the most advanced functional designs, advanced electronic navigation and mighty engines combined with the finest able-bodied crews and skilled captains. ARGH! Lads! This is seafaring.
Pacific Coast Tugboats
Artwork dedicated to the men of the Pacific Coast fleet of working boats, and to the gallant vessels, which will forever live in our memory. Classic Pacific Coast Tugboats: Gallant workboats with a history of nostalgic drama and color in tugboat operation on Pacific waters. Tugboats are a colorful and essential part of the Pacific Coast seascape today, just as they were a century ago.
Pushing their way through fierce storms to find a stricken ship a thousand miles at sea or sailing down a fairway on a summer afternoon with seagulls crying and catching rides on the boom of logs astern, tugboats are a colorful and essential part of the Pacific Northwest Coast today.
The hiss of steam and the creak of walking beams have given way to diesel and tractor power. Tugboats are a story of brave men in powerful vessels who are not afraid to take on a mighty ocean. A history of hard-hitting sea adventures of the great ships of sail and steam alike.
Tugboats on Puget Sound
Tug boating started on Puget Sound as a means of getting trees to the mills. The timber barons of the nineteenth century built their sawmills on tidewater, rigged with miles of virgin forests. Steam tugs towed the log rafts to the mills.
Sailing ships came to Puget Sound from all ports of the world. Ships sailed around the Horn from Europe and East Coast ports, across the Pacific from the Orient and the Antipodes, and up the West Coast from the booming towns of California.
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