Tugboat MOGUL
by James Williamson
Title
Tugboat MOGUL
Artist
James Williamson
Medium
Painting - Watercolor
Description
Pacific Northwest Tugboat MOGUL watercolor painting by artist James Williamson.
Artist James Williamson, ASMA
Signature Member of the American Society of Marine Artists
Tugboat MOGUL History
Tugboat MOGUL signal and radio call letters WV8602. Gross tonnage 199, net 11; dimensions in feet: length 111.2, breadth 31.1, depth 11.1; hull construction steel; date built 1965; place built Portland, Oregon; service tow; horsepower 2,200; home port Seattle, Washington. Tugboat MOGUL listed as a merchant vessel of the United States. Subject of painting: Towing barge to Alaska.
Artwork dedicated to the men of the Pacific Coast's fleet of working boats, and to the gallant vessels, which will forever live in our memory.
Classic Puget Sound steam tugs. 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, just as they were a century ago.
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. Hard hitting sea adventure of the great ships of sail and steam alike.
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, 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.
Originally the tugs' purpose was the towing of ocean sailing vessels to and from their intended docks. Today ships are powered by engines and yet they continue to require assistance of these powerful tugboats in and out of docks throughout Puget Sound.
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