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  • The Ballard-based Western Towboat Co. has a fleet of 21 tugs and employs about 140 people, said Rachel Shrewsbury, whose grandfather started the business in 1948. (Gabriel Campanario / The Seattle Times)
    Tough tugs, big cargo
  • Western Tugboat's crew getting ready to sail to Whittier, Alaska. (Gabriel Campanario / The Seattle Times)
    Tough tugs, big cargo
  • The amount of things you can put on these floating platforms is mind-boggling. Capt. Brent Bierbaum said this one included 51 rail cars and the equivalent of 132 semi-trailer trucks. Topping the massive stack were several boats and a Caterpillar excavator. (Gabriel Campanario / The Seattle Times)
    Tough tugs, big cargo
  • Campanario joined the crew aboard the tug for a very short but important part of the journey: the sail from Ballard to Harbor Island, where the tug hooked up a fully loaded barge. (Gabriel Campanario / The Seattle Times)
    Tough tugs, big cargo
  • And there went the Arctic Titan and its barge as the evening colors began<br />
to paint the scene over Elliott Bay. Smooth sailing! (Gabriel Campanario / The Seattle Times)
    Tough tugs, big cargo
  • Capt. Brent Bierbaum at the helm and three of his four-person crew down below worked together to chain up the barge. (Gabriel Campanario / The Seattle Times)
    Tough tugs, big cargo
  • Not many ports have the infrastructure to load rail cars onto barges.  (Gabriel Campanario / The Seattle Times)
    Tough tugs, big cargo
  • A veteran of the First World War, Frankland returned to school and delivered papers while attending the University of Washington where he lettered in track under Hec Edmundson. In his freshman year he got a job at Mount Rainier National Park and subsequently worked eight summers at the park. (Seattle Times archives, 1948).
    C. F. “Chuck” Frankland starred in track
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