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Patrol and Rescue Boats on Puget Sound

Author: Chuck Fowler

Publisher: Arcadia Publishing

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 132

ISBN-13: 9780738575810

The history of impressive battleships, aircraft carriers, and submarines on Puget Sound has been well chronicled. However, the story of the smaller, fast patrol and rescue boats that have protected its vast inland waters is largely unknown. This book, through more than 200 rare images and engaging text, reveals the fascinating story. It covers Navy, Coast Guard, and Army Air Force craft in the sound, including the famed patrol torpedo boats of World War II. Featuring evocative photographs from the National Archives, as well as veterans' personal collections, this book highlights these military craft, their proud crews, and essential wartime and peacetime operations.

Patrol and Rescue Boats on Puget Sound

Author: Chuck Fowler

Publisher: Arcadia Library Editions

Published: 2011-12

Total Pages: 130

ISBN-13: 9781531650056

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Ferry Vessel Safety on Puget Sound

Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries. Subcommittee on Coast Guard and Navigation

Publisher:

Published: 1988

Total Pages: 234

ISBN-13:

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Tugboats on Puget Sound

Author: Chuck Fowler

Publisher: Arcadia Publishing

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 132

ISBN-13: 9780738559728

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While square-rigged sailing ships, steamboats and ferries, and ever-larger cruise and cargo-carrying vessels have made their mark on Puget Sound's maritime history, no other vessels have captured the imagination of shore-bound seafarers like tugboats. Beginning in the 1850s when the first steam-powered tugboats arrived in the Sound from the East Coast via San Francisco, company owners and their crews competed fiercely for business, towing ships, log rafts, and barges. The magnetic attraction of powerful, tough tugs both large and small is unexplainable but enduring. This book, featuring about 200 rare historic images and carefully researched text, tells the colorful story of tug boating on Puget Sound.