The seemingly disastrous launch of a new US Navy warship had it send a massive wave of water crashing over the significantly smaller tugboat used to pull it into the water. The US Navy had announced ...

Welcome back to the Fluctus Channel to discover the logistics and technology behind the work of the powerful Tugboats.

How can a small tugboat move a massive ship weighing hundreds of thousands of tons? In this video, we reveal the surprising power behind tugboats—their specialized engines, propeller systems, and ...

The Coast Guard and Boston firefighters responded shortly after 8 a.m. to what a Coast Guard spokesman described as an engine room fire on a "small tug boat." Source Boston Herald Dec. 07--A tugboat ...

KINGSTON, N.Y. (AP) — On a tributary of the Hudson River, a tugboat powered by ammonia eased away from the shipyard dock and sailed for the first time to show how the maritime industry can slash ...

This article appears in the April 2022 issue of The American Prospect magazine. Subscribe here. Jason Woods, a longtime tugboat worker and the president of International Longshore and Warehouse Union ...

Two men were presumed drowned after a small tugboat was spotted Saturday without its crew. The Canadian Coast Guard searched the waters of Stuart Narrows, north of Vancouver Island, for the bodies of ...