Title taken from caption. View of a lighter (barge) loaded with salmon and being towed by a tugboat. Photo taken during National Geographic Society expedition on the way to Katmai area. 1918.
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.
Title taken from caption. View of the tug John Michael and the wrecked barge Arctic Chief near Kodiak Island. The Arctic Chief went down in November 1950.
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.
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