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In this illustrated history, Matteson, a twenty-year tugboat veteran, narrates two centuries of the city's history from the decks of its tugboats, whose fortunes "powered up with the rising tide of the nineteenth century and then powered back down with the efficiencies of the twentieth." The first boat in New York meant exclusively for towing entered service in 1828, but business was sporadic; her captain was "more likely to be found in the local saloon than at the helm." In 1871, a tugboat was lured up the Hudson to Sing Sing and shanghaied by escaped Tammany men, then chased by a flotilla of guards in rowboats, who finally ran it aground near Nyack. The peak of the tugboat era was 1929, when eight hundred of them plied the city's waters. Today, there are fewer than two hundred, which are used to dock larger ships, though a handful, Matteson notes elegiacally, still "trundle back and forth across the harbor on an indifferent schedule, carrying mostly Long Island garbage and incinerator ash to the mainland."
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In this illustrated history, Matteson, a twenty-year tugboat veteran, narrates two centuries of the city's history from the decks of its tugboats, whose fortunes "powered up with the rising tide of the nineteenth century and then powered back down with the efficiencies of the twentieth." The first boat in New York meant exclusively for towing entered service in 1828, but business was sporadic; her captain was "more likely to be found in the local saloon than at the helm." In 1871, a tugboat was lured up the Hudson to Sing Sing and shanghaied by escaped Tammany men, then chased by a flotilla of guards in rowboats, who finally ran it aground near Nyack. The peak of the tugboat era was 1929, when eight hundred of them plied the city's waters. Today, there are fewer than two hundred, which are used to dock larger ships, though a handful, Matteson notes elegiacally, still "trundle back and forth across the harbor on an indifferent schedule, carrying mostly Long Island garbage and incinerator ash to the mainland."
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“Breathtaking photographs.... Matteson’s fascinating account of the evolutionary era begins with the geographical formation of New York Harbor, but quickly moves to the era of the vessels themselves.... Anyone fond of books about the way things work will enjoy Matteson's detailed explanations; others will relish his metaphors.”
- New York Times Book Review“Matteson knows the lore in depth, telling us how tugs work and how crucially they've served the great port.”
- San Diego Tribune“This sturdy, if little lauded, workhorse of the city’s waterways has found a champion in George Matteson, himself a veteran tug operator. His marvelous, handsomely designed Tugboats of New York is both an evocative photo album of tugs at work and a detailed essay on nearly two hundred years of tugboat history.”
- BookForum“A brave and jaunty disquisition, copiously illustrated, on the history of tugboats in the port of New York—written with boundless enthusiasm and affection for its subject, and with more than a little longing for the days when ships of all kinds dominated the rhythm of life in and around the city's endless waterways.”
- Ric Burns“Matteson narrates two hundred years of city history from the decks of its tugboats.&8221;
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towing assignments, coastal towing, free lighterage, railroad tugs, tugboat owners, tugboat industry, towing rates, towing industry, helper boat, steam towing, towing work, docking pilot, towing business, tug master, licensed men, tug operator, towing winch, tug owner, towing bitts, towing alongside, towing bridle, marine workers, car float, harbor strike, railroad boats Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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towing assignments, coastal towing, free lighterage, railroad tugs, tugboat owners, tugboat industry, towing rates, towing industry, helper boat, steam towing, towing work, docking pilot, towing business, tug master, licensed men, tug operator, towing winch, tug owner, towing bitts, towing alongside, towing bridle, marine workers, car float, harbor strike, railroad boats Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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