Tugboats: Pushing Their Way Around Since 1803

1276.383 - 1303.351 Josh Clark

But there was a proving ground. What ended up being a proving ground on the Tyne River that connected Newcastle to the North Sea. They were facing a problem, right? They had these barges that were called colliers, and they were sailboats, but they were coal movers because Newcastle was a huge coal producer. And these colliers could do a lot of damage because they were hard to navigate.