While square-rigged sailing ships, steamboats and ferries, and
ever-larger cruise and cargo-carrying vessels have made their mark on
Puget Sound's maritime history, no other vessels have captured the
imagination of shore-bound seafarers like tugboats. Beginning in the
1850s when the first steam-powered tugboats arrived in the Sound from
the East Coast via San Francisco, company owners and their crews
competed fiercely for business, towing ships, log rafts, and barges. The
magnetic attraction of powerful, tough tugs both large and small is
unexplainable but enduring. This book, featuring about 200 rare historic
images and carefully researched text, tells the colorful story of tug
boating on Puget Sound.