Tugboats: Pushing Their Way Around Since 1803

1861.693 - 1886.55 Josh Clark

So they're really important, but just not in exactly the same ways as they were before, because we started getting our energy over things like pipelines. We started using things that weren't coal. Trucking and shipping containers became a much bigger thing than, say, barges over the years. So with each of those things, the tugboat became... Less and less able to do what it did in 1946.