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.
The magnetic attraction.
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.
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
