03 Jul

New Navy tugs have the finesse, power for a wide range of duties

Professional Mariner StaffAmerican Tugboat Review, Maritime News, Tugboats & Towing
When measured against the scale of February weather in the Pacific Northwest, it was a mildly miserable day in Puget Sound. But the gray backdrop did not dampen the showpiece sparkle of the tug Puyallup YT-806 moored at the J.M. Martinac Shipbuilding dock in Tacoma, Wash. Puyallup is the fifth of six Z-Tech 4500 class tugs designed specifically for the…
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Towing company draws on chief’s background as a naval architect
02 Jul

Towing company draws on chief’s background as a naval architect

Professional Mariner StaffAmerican Tugboat Review, Maritime News, Tugboats & Towing
Jantran Inc. has taken delivery of Lucy Janoush, a twin-screw 4,000-hp towboat designed by the towing company’s president. The boat was built by Nichols Boat Co. in Greenville, Miss. Lucy Janoush was designed by Joe W. Janoush, Jantran’s president. For many years Janoush was a naval architect at Mississippi Marine Corp. in Greenville, Miss.  In 1978 Janoush stepped out on…
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Thomas M. Gattle combines a traditional design with innovation
28 Jun

Thomas M. Gattle combines a traditional design with innovation

Professional Mariner StaffAmerican Tugboat Review, Maritime News
Terral RiverService, of Lake Providence, La., has placed its 14th towboat in operation along the Mississippi River and tributaries with the addition of the 2,800-hp Thomas M. Gattle. The twin-screw vessel is the seventh towboat constructed for the firm by NewSouth Marine Construction Inc., of Greenville, Miss., and is the third in a series of nearly identical vessels, all designed…
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Moran acquires the first of a new class of broad-beam docking tugs
27 Jun

Moran acquires the first of a new class of broad-beam docking tugs

Professional Mariner StaffAmerican Tugboat Review, Tugboats & Towing
Washburn & Doughty Associates, of East Boothbay, Maine, has delivered twin z-drive docking tugs to Moran Towing Corp. The first, James A. Moran, launched in October 2011, marked a new class of escort/docking tug. The 93-foot tug is named for James A. Barker, the son of Moran CEO Paul Tregurtha’s longtime business partner, James R. Barker. The tug sets a…
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27 Jun

Specially designed shallow-draft ATBs head north to serve remote Alaskan villages

Professional Mariner StaffAmerican Tugboat Review, Maritime News
Vitus Marine has taken delivery of two shallow-draft ATBs specially designed to bring crucial supplies of fuel and heating oil to remote villages along the coast of Western Alaska. Sneed Shipbuilding of Channelview and Orange, Texas, delivered twin 76-foot ATBs and two nearly identical barges to the Alaska Village Electric Cooperative (AVEC). Vitus Marine LLC of Anchorage, Alaska, will operate…
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Despite slow economy, some towboat yards still built several boats
26 Jun

Despite slow economy, some towboat yards still built several boats

Professional Mariner StaffAmerican Tugboat Review, Maritime News, Tugboats & Towing
Several inland shipyards saw no shortage of towboat orders in 2011 and some made several multi-boat deliveries to new and repeat customers. Among the 2011 deliveries were a mix of long-range line boats and local service boats. The largest was the 6,140-hp Paul Tobin, delivered to the Ohio River division of AEP River Operations by Gulf Island Marine Fabricators in…
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09 Jun

Delta Lindsey

Professional Mariner StaffAmerican Tugboat Review, Tugboats & Towing
Yet another in a long series of new tugboats was introduced by Baydelta Maritime, of San Francisco, in late 2010. The 6,800-hp ASD ship-assist tug Delta Lindsey was immediately sent out to charter with Foss Maritime. Baydelta's newest tug, Delta Lindsey, undergoes bollard pull testing in San Francisco using its JonRie InterTech wire towing winch. (Brandon Durar photo) The 100-foot…
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09 Jun

Beverly B.

Professional Mariner StaffAmerican Tugboat Review, Tugboats & Towing
With lower Mississippi River ship arrivals and container volumes on the rise, the timing seems right for the recent introduction of four new ASD tractor tugs at the Port of New Orleans. New ASD tugs Beverly B. and Elizabeth B. are two of four new tugs recently appearing in New Orleans for both E.N. Bisso & Son and for Crescent…
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