Tugboat ARTHUR FOSS #2
by James Williamson
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$695
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15.000 x 11.000 inches
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Title
Tugboat ARTHUR FOSS #2
Artist
James Williamson
Medium
Painting - Watercolor
Description
Vintage Pacific Northwest Tugboat ARTHUR FOSS watercolor painting by artist James Williamson.
Artist James Williamson, ASMA
Signature Member of the American Society of Marine Artists
Historic Tugboat ARTHUR FOSS
The 1889 tug Arthur Foss, ex-Wallowa, is a preserved historic vessel owned and maintained by Northwest Seaport Museum, Inc. of Seattle, Washington. Arthur Foss is moored at Kirkland, Washington on Lake Washington at the Moss Bay Marina.
Arthur Foss as Wallowa and as Rebuilt and Maintained
As built in 1889 and launched as Wallowa, the vessel was 111.6 feet in length with a 23.9-foot beam, a 11.6-foot depth of hold, and a 15-foot draft. Wallowa was registered at 225 gross tonnage and 127 net tonnage. [1] Built of Douglas fir, the tug's wooden hull was heavily built with 8- x 7-inch double-sawn frames, wooden knees, 4-inch-thick outer hull and ceiling planking, treenail-fastened. The 15-inch-thick keel was built with a 2- 1/2-inch-thick ironbark shoe, and the hull above the turn of the bilge is sheathed with 1-inch-thick ironbark. The tug's form then, as now, was of a "typical" form for this type of craft prior to the Second World War. In 1927, one author explained that while there were slight differences in design and powering,
Pacific Northwest Tugboat History
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 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.
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, engines power ships, yet they continue to require assistance of these powerful tugboats in and out of docks throughout Puget Sound.
Pacific Northwest Maritime Artwork by James Willaimson, ASMA
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