'tugboat' is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to a boat which provides assistance to other vessels, usually by tugging them. For example: "The captain steered the tugboat toward the cargo ship needing assistance."
LAST month a gang of Nigerian pirates stole a tugboat and sailed south into Angolan waters, where on January 18th they attacked the MT Kerala, an oil products tanker a few miles off the coast of Luanda, the capital.
Pilots Agree, a union that represents a third of America's 3,000 tugboat pilots, called a strike.
In 1985 Mr Brand co-founded the WELL, a pioneering online community that was a precursor of today's social-networking websites such as MySpace and Facebook.Mr Brand still has a following among the Birkenstock set, and even lives on a tugboat near San Francisco.
On June 13th one of the colonel's sons, Hannibal, who controls the state-owned General National Transport Maritime Company GNMTCC), sent a tugboat full of Libyan sailors to take control of the Cartagena and bring it home.
Officials point out that the rivers are running high and fast in the spring, which always makes navigation more dangerous.For the moment, the tugboat operators seem to have their eyes shut.
IN THE summer of 1912 Harry Houdini was clapped in manacles and leg-irons, stuffed into a crate that had been weighed down by lead, and dropped from a tugboat into New York's East River.
By backing the FDP, they can rebuke the conservatives without opening the door to a left-wing government.The FDP would be the "tugboat" in a black-yellow government, says Mr Rösler.
Despite this threat, and the fact that the fires are man-made, the outcome will largely be left to chance.The damage so far appears to have been limited to a collision in poor visibility between a tanker and a tugboat, killing ten people.
This can reap real benefits: in the Netherlands service costs dropped by a quarter after a new tugboat operator entered.
The tugboat could draw extra power from the battery when full-power surges were needed, and turn its diesel engines off altogether when it was idle, allowing the battery to power other equipment.
This steam tugboat was illustrated in a pamphlet published in 1737.
