Tugboat Watuppa

Title

Tugboat Watuppa

Artist

Carol J Deltoro

Medium

Photograph - Photograph

Description

A wonderful photo of the tugboat Watuppa, owned by the McCarren Towing Line, taken from Pier 5, East River, Brooklyn. 1936 (Photo by Berenice Abbott/Courtesy of the Museum of the City of New York)

The tugboat is a boat or ship that pushes or tows ships in a crowded harbor or a narrow canal, or barges, disabled ships, log rafts, or oil platforms that cannot move by themselves. They are powerful and stronge for their size, and some are ocean-going. Tugboats can serve as icebreakers or salvage boats. The early tugboats had steam engines. Harbour tugboats are smaller with a higher width-to-length ratio because of a need for a lower draught. The term lunch bucket boats was used for tugs In smaller harbours because they are only manned when needed and many times had only at a captain and deckhand who brought their own lunch with them. The Port of New York was really eleven ports in one. It boasted a developed shoreline of over 650 miles (1,050 km) comprising the waterfronts of Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens, the Bronx, and Staten Island as well as the New Jersey shoreline from Perth Amboy to Elizabeth, Bayonne, Newark, Jersey City, Hoboken and Weehawken. "The Port of New York included some 1,800 docks, piers, and wharves of every conceivable size, condition, and state of repair. Some 750 were classified as "active" and 200 were able to berth 425 ocean-going vessels simultaneously in addition to the 600 able to anchor in the harbor. These docks and piers gave access to 1,100 warehouses containing some 41,000,000 square feet (3,800,000 m2) of inclosed storage space. In addition, the Port of New York had thirty-nine active shipyards, not including the huge New York Naval Shipyard on the Brooklyn side of the East River. These facilities included nine big ship repair yards, thirty-six large dry-docks, twenty-five small shipyards, thirty-three locomotive and gantry cranes of fifty ton lift capacity or greater, five floating derricks, and more than one hundred tractor cranes. Over 575 tugboats worked the Port of New York." From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

A public domain photo from the NYC Digital Collection that has been enhanced with textures from Jai Johnson ( Daily Textures), Shadowhouse Creations and Hibbary Deviantart.

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