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* The tug USS Powhatan, acquired by the Navy in 1898, was renamed USS Cayuga in 1917 and served under that name until sold in 1928.
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* USS New England ( ID-1222 ), also SP-1222, a tug in commission from 1917 to 1919
* USS Roselle ( SP-350 ), a ship that served both as a tug and as minesweeper
* USS Mohawk, three US Navy ships, as well as Coast Guard and Revenue cutters and a navy reserve tug
* USS Chippewa ( AT-69 ) was an ocean tug commissioned in 1943 and decommissioned in 1947.
* USS Adirondack ( YT-44 ), was an iron-hulled screw tug originally known as the Underwriter.
* USS Wannalancet ( YTB-385 ), later YTM-385, a United States Navy harbor tug in commission from 1944 to 1946 which used a variant spelling of his name
* USS Mayflower – any of three ships: screw tug, presidential yacht, lighthouse tender
* The second USS Yuma ( YT-37 ) was a tug originally named USS Asher J. Hudson ( SP-3104 ) and later renamed Yuma.
* The third USS Yuma ( AT-94 ) was a Navajo-class fleet tug commissioned in 1943 and transferred to Pakistan in 1959.
* The fourth USS Yuma ( YTM-748 ) was a medium harbor tug the Navy acquired in 1964 from the US Army, where she had served with the designation LT-2078 since 1954.
* The USS Catawba ( YT-32 ), ex-Howard Greene ( renamed 20 July 1920 ), served as a district tug at Washington from 1918 to 1922, at Norfolk, Virginia from 1922 to 1933, and at Charleston, South Carolina from 1933 through 1946.
* USS Standish ( 1864 ), an iron-hulled screw tug
The United States Navy tug USS Watseka ( YT-387 ), and a city in East Central Illinois were named in her honor.
* USS Wapato ( YTB-788 ), a United States Navy tug in service from 1966 to 1996
* USS Wanamassa ( YTB-820 ), a United States Navy large harbor tug in commission since 1973
* USS Wathena ( YTB-825 ), a harbor tug placed in service in 1973
* USS Ahoskie ( YTB-804 ), a Natick-class large harbor tug in the service of the United States Navy
* USS Kittanning ( YTB-787 ), a United States Navy large harbor tug
* USS John Hancock ( 1850 ), naval tug in service 1850s
A six-mile tow line connected a fleet tug, the USS Tawasa, and the shot barge itself.
* USS Yurok ( ATF-164 ), a fleet tug laid down for the United States Navy in 1945, but converted into a submarine rescue vessel prior to completion and commissioned as USS Bluebird ( ASR-19 ).
tug and Powhatan
* USNS Powhatan ( T-ATF-166 ), sixth ship of the name, was a fleet ocean tug operated by the Military Sealift Command to provide the U. S. Navy with towing service which entered service on 15 June 1979 and left service on 26 February 1999.
tug and acquired
She was acquired by the Navy in 1918 and served as a yard tug until 1927.
*, was a harbor tug acquired by the Navy from the United States Shipping Board on 20 April 1925.
tug and by
* Atlas V ( boat ), a Belgian tug boat used by the resistance in World War I
Many manatees have been cut in half by large vessels like ships and tug boats, even in the highly populated lower St Johns River's narrow channels.
According to a Tang dynasty book, The Notes of Feng, tug of war, under the name " hook pulling "( 牵钩 ), was used by the military commander of the State of Chu during the Spring and Autumn Period ( 8th century BCE to 5th century BCE ) to train warriors.
The launch may be by pulling the aircraft into the air with a tow-line, with a ground-based winch or vehicle, or with a powered " tug " aircraft.
The columns, which were transported to New York on a specially constructed barge towed by the large steam tug Clara Clarita, took more than a year to install.
There are also other Vernerian alternations, as illustrated by German ziehen ' to draw, pull ': zogen ' to tug, drag ' ← PGmc.
* Following the loss by Athens and its allies in the Battle of Mantinea, a political " tug of war " takes place in Athens.
By late 1864, the prototypes were operational, with the stern section replaced by a pusher tug.
Starting in 1967, Cawoods Hargreaves used trains of three tubs or coal pans, which were rigidly connected, and pushed by a tug when loaded.
Called BACAT, for Barges Aboard Catamaran, the system consisted of trains of barges, which were pushed by a tug, and which would be loaded between the twin hulls of a custom-built delivery ship.
Taxiing is the movement of an aircraft on the ground, under its own power, in contrast to towing or push-back where the aircraft is moved by a tug.
Most aircraft, however, are not designed to back up on their own and must be pushed back either by hand or by using an aircraft tug.
* He 111 Z-1: Two He 111 airframes coupled together by a new central wing panel possessing a fifth Jumo 211 engine, used as a glider tug for Messerschmitt Me 321.
Eels of two or three pounds weight may be caught by this method but may require a protracted tug of war to pull them from their hole.
A tugboat ( tug ) is a boat that maneuvers vessels by pushing or towing them.
The Carousel Tug adds a pair of interlocking rings to the body of the tug, the inner ring attached to the boat, with the outer ring attached to the towed ship by winch or towing hook.
The novel Hollands glorie, written prior to World War II, was made into a Dutch miniseries in 1978, concerned the dangers faced by the crews of Dutch tug salvage tugs.
Other vessels include an Army cargo ship, hull number 313 ( 1904 ), Liberty class steam merchant ( 1942 ), which was sunk by a U-boat during World War II, and a 128-foot Army tug, USAV MG Nathanael Greene ( LT 801 ), which is still in service today.
On the 8th September 2006 the jack-up barge Octopus ran aground on an uncharted seamount within the Orkney Islands ( United Kingdom ) whilst being towed by the Harold tug.
* Polaris, the north star, is a triple star system in which the closer companion star is extremely close to the main star — so close that it was only known from its gravitational tug on Polaris A until it was photographed by the Hubble Space Telescope in 2006.
The Pinkertons attempted to land under cover of darkness about 4 a. m. A large crowd of families had kept pace with the boats as they were towed by a tug into the town.
* Scientific American: The Asteroid Tugboat: To prevent an asteroid from hitting Earth, a space tug equipped with plasma engines could give it a push ( article by Schweickart, Lu, Hut and Chapman )
Harpman wouldn't allow reporters from other newspapers on the tug-in order to protect her " scoop "-and as a result a second tug was hired by the disgruntled reporters.
In 1800 Dundas, as Governor of the Forth and Clyde Canal Company, engaged Symington to design a steam tug on the lines of a failed attempt by Captain John Schank for the Bridgewater Canal.
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