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  • Western Tugboat's crew getting ready to sail to Whittier, Alaska. (Gabriel Campanario / The Seattle Times)
    Tough tugs, big cargo
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • (Gabriel Campanario / The Seattle Times)
    Boats of all sorts
  • Not many ports have the infrastructure to load rail cars onto barges.  (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
  • The 108-foot Leschi, docked at Fire Station 5 on the west end of Madison Street, right between Colman Dock and the legendary Ivar’s Fish and Chips Restaurant.  (Gabriel Campanario / The Seattle Times)
    Seattle's biggest fireboat
  • A 1,000-ton wooden floating drydock, purchased by the Lake Union Drydock Company as surplus equipment from the United States Maritime Commission, was shown from the Ballard Bridge as it arrived in Seattle after being towed from Scow Bay, near Port Townsend, by the tugboat Sandra Foss. The drydock was 240 feet long and 64 feet wide. (Roy Scully / The Seattle Times, 1947)
    Towing a dry dock
  • A tugboat pushes a barge on Elliott Bay as the Space Needle and Mt. Baker loom in the background. (Ellen M. Banner / The Seattle Times)
    Seattle Mt. Baker skyline
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