(3:15min) (02 of 08) Working different jobs worked -- tug boats; Foss Company -- Seattle; father -- civilian blacksmith; Fort Lodden; Pierson, Paul -- friend; Pierson, Paul -- became superintendent of Foss Company; worked -- Standard Oil...
31 second film clip, color/silent, of Front street and the shoreline at Kotzebue, Alaska, 1958-1961. The tugboat, Helen Lee, is seen with a walrus carcass on its deck. People are walking on the sidewalk.
Aerial of lightering vessel "Florida Bay" with tug boat wait to respond to a leaking oil tanker or to collect oil from skimmers during boom deployment test, Ship Escort and Response Vessel System (SERVS) - Valdez Harbor.
An Army tugboat seen close to the wreck of the S.S. Yukon after the storm near Seward, Alaska. The U.S.S. Curb and a Coast Guard boat are further out. From verso: "Glacier Photo Service, Seward, Alaska." 1946. Original size of photograph: 8" x 10".
Close aerial of lightering vessel "Florida Bay" with tug boat wait to respond to a leaking oil tanker or to collect oil from skimmers during boom deployment test, Ship Escort and Response Vessel System (SERVS) - Valdez Harbor.
Cyanotype photograph of the Lady Lake, a 58-ft. steamer tug built in 1896, and a barge off of Dyea, Alaska. The masts of a larger ship are visible in the background. Photograph taken during the 1898 Cook's Inlet Exploring Expedition led by Edwin...
Information from Kinky Bayers' General Marine File: the ALITAK was built in 1901 for use in the Bering Sea as a tug and tender Photographer's number 1225
Overhead close aerial of support and boom deployment vessel "Foss Energizer" with tug boat in calm waters during boom deployment test, Ship Escort and Response Vessel System (SERVS) - Valdez Harbor.
The platform was christened "The Trading Bay". After launching it was towed 2,000 miles via the Columbia River and Pacific Ocean to Cook Inlet, Alaska.