The owner of a steam tugboat which participated in the pivotal Dunkirk evacuation says the vessel is in "desperate need of repairs" as it is one of the last operational steam tugs in the country.

The move of the Balclutha followed the towing of the 1895 lumber schooner C.A. Thayer and the 1914 paddlewheel tug Eppleton Hall to the Mare Island seawall. Later this year, the 1890 steam ...

Turner's painting depicts this once-mighty gladiator of the seas being towed down a burnished River Thames by a much more recently invented steam-powered tugboat. A brief segment in the 2012 James ...

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The steam-tug Yankee was also quietly chartered by the Government, and slipped out of the harbor on Monday evening, at 5 o'clock, in company with the Baltic. She is a new and powerful tug ...

A Suffolk man needs to raise £35,000 to take a near 100-year-old steam tug back to Dunkirk ... Boats and ships to sound horns in tribute to Queen's 70 years as monarch His repair work resulted ...

As the steam-tug moved off, the soldiers sang with considerable effect the "Star Spangled Banner" and other patriotic songs, much to the satisfaction of a majority of these present, but to the ...

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