Sentence examples for tugboat in from inspiring English sources

I'm told Blaine's hero, Harry Houdini, once jumped off a tugboat in New York Harbor.

And how does he know that his is the only private-use tugboat in the world?

Six crew members were rescued by another tugboat in 20-foot seas amid gale-force winds.

At seventy-seven, living on a tugboat in Sausalito, Brand is less impressed by signs of fragility than by examples of resilience.

I made the mistake of needing to use the restroom during a Jack U performance and was tossed about like a tugboat in a hurricane.

Mr. Lyews said he watched a crew in a small motor boat attach cables from the barge to the tugboat in the middle of afternoon on Monday.

Crews scrambled to make repairs on Wednesday near the busiest Mississippi River lock, which was shut down on Saturday, snarling hundreds of barges and tugboats in a growing backlog.

Out in the broad river, giant barges creep past, loaded with sand, rice and gravel, pulled by tiny tugboats in groups of three or four.

Separated from home and family demands, the crew is at the disposal of McAllister, the towing company that owns the Ellen McAllister and 17 other tugboats in New York.

The crews and guests who piled aboard the tugs yesterday exulted in the chance to spend the unofficial last weekend of summer riding tugboats in Manhattan waters.

One mural shows us silhouettes of tankers, troopships and tugboats in the nocturnal New York Harbor: a convoy of ships, grouped for protection against attack, making its way with troops and supplies across the Atlantic.