A steam tug that was used to evacuate stranded soldiers from the beaches of Dunkirk in WWII has been saved following a grant of £909,000. The Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) award will help keep the tug, ...
Volunteers are racing to secure funds to restore a World War Two tug used at Dunkirk back to its former glory. The Challenge played a heroic role in Operation Dynamo, which saw more than 338,000 ...
On the morning of Sept. 13, Brendon Baillod and Bob Jaeck set out on a three-day mission to find the John Evenson in the depths of Lake Michigan. The wood steam tug sank in 1895, and its whereabouts ...
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 ...
NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) - For the first time in about a decade you can hop aboard the city's last surviving wooden, steam tugboat. It's an experience as rich as its history, reports CBS2's Nina Kapur.
In 1879, the 60-foot steam tug “Prince Alfred” arrived in Wiarton to replace the “O’Koura” which had burned on Colpoys Bay ...
A Suffolk man needs to raise £35,000 to take a near 100-year-old steam tug back to Dunkirk, where it was involved in the evacuation of British soldiers during the Second World War. Chris Bannister, ...
A recently published book by Baltimore author David W. Wooddell chronicles the history of the two city-owned inspection tugboats named Baltimore, one built in 1857 and its successor in 1906, that ...
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