Genius Design: How the Tugboat Was Invented

[@naciremasti]

Tugboats are completely underrated. Most important ship on the water.

[@joãoAlberto-k9x]

It is not true. You think it.❤. Don't worry. Tugs matter always.

[@OceanlinerDesigns]

You are right on the money!

[@francus7227]

​@@OceanlinerDesigns 2nd place is the pilot boat.... Captains can't navigate unfamiliar rivers safely.

[@TheUnluckyTug_official]

Been wondering when you'd finally cover tugs on this channel, haha. Awesome video, and love the Eppleton Hall mention at the end!

[@Ringo-hw6pw]

I never thought the actual unlucky tug would comment and get 1 like, horrible... Also how did you make a 1 hour vide-

[@Randomstuffs261]

Great to see you here Tug! Love your videos, especially your TUGS analysis. I've probably seen it like 5 times at this point, love it!

[@LBSC70]

I have a feeling this might make tugs pick of the week

[@MagiTailWelkin]

Top Hat: Ooh, I say, hello!

[@legoforceuser5087]

always love it when i see a youtuber i watch also watches other channels i enjoy

[@Gregm-l9r]

The poor tug boats have been somewhat ignored over the years . Well done Mike for giving them the attention they deserve . Awesome.

[@christopherlahr2218]

​​@vibratingstringI think he meant ignored documentarily as opposed to practical use

[@Randomstuffs261]

The Tugboat, for its size, is the most powerful craft afloat

[@nursestoyland]

Admiral kuznetzov

[@Randomstuffs261]

@@nursestoyland Yes, this was definitely referencing Admiral Kuznetzov

[@Daniel_Huffman]

And the Star Tugs are the power behind the docks and waterways that make up the Bigg City Port. This…is _TUGS._

[@Randomstuffs261]

@@Daniel_Huffman So glad TUGS is still alive

[@nursestoyland]

@@Daniel_Huffman the real Tugs

[@geoffreyporter7567]

Whenever I see a video like this, I feel like I can viscerally feel Mike’s relief at being able to talk about something that isn’t Titanic.

[@nuggetschicken1781]

literally prefer these over titanic videos too😂

[@AtMortenJ]

Unsubbed due to him milking titanic so much

[@daro9582]

@@AtMortenJ my understanding is that he (at least partially) makes a living off of these videos and Titanic is the most well known oceanliner ever which means it’s the best way to get enough views and potentially new subscribers interested, some of which might become more interested in Oceanliners as a whole

[@WLDB]

My grandfather worked on one. Got to go with him twice and those are stand out memories from my childhood and really of any I had with him. It was fun. For whatever reason I just never thought about where they came from. This was fun and cool. Thanks.

[@SeanBZA]

Tugboats are basically massive engines with enough hull around them to store the fuel and make them float. Then you get deep sea tugs, which are the same, just they have enough fuel on board to get from one and of the ocean to the other, towing a ship many times bigger than itself. Crews are rough, and all are able to pretty much any task on board as well, simply because there is no room for more than the bare minimum of crew to sleep and live on it.

[@thesteelrodent1796]

around here, in Denmark and the rest of Scandinavia (and probably other places as well), the tugboats double as ice breakers. So when it's cold enough for the sea to freeze, they'll putter around the harbour to break up the ice to keep the lanes and the harbour itself safe and passable.

[@wayneantoniazzi2706]

The shot of that Moran tugboat reminded me of something my mother, a New York City girl, told me a while back. The Moran company tugs were and still are famous in New York but as Mom put it "You couldn't get a job on them!" Her brothers tried after returning from WW2 and were rebuffed. They weren't the only ones either, the jobs paid VERY well and were highly sought after. Actually, you COULD get a job on them but it was one of those "You have to know someone!" situations. A fine video on the ubiquitous and some what underappreciated tugboat Mike! Thanks for posting!

[@paddleboatman3767]

Australia is lucky to have 120 year old steam paddle boats still running. I am a volunteer who help keep the steam plant crewed and maintained.

[@zamnodorszk7898]

Sailing ships used to have other means of getting out of harbour other than rowing. Kedging was also effective: You essentially put the ship's anchor on a cutter and rowed away from the ship, dropped it, then used the capstan to pull the ship out. Given this technique involves hauling a large anchor, then running the capstan, I'm not sure which is more work though, to be honest.

[@luislealsantos]

Nothing like a video of Ocean liner desings to brighten the day. Thanks for your hard work.

[@unpro04]

Very refreshing to see Aquitania used as a reference for the size of Edwardian superliners instead of the god damn Titanic, thank you man :3

[@spencerfesing4145]

Honestly the Eppleton Hall deserves her own video.

[@Dakiraun]

Neat - Tugs were the boat that got me _into_ boats when I was a little kid. Neat that they go back well into the 18th century - didn't realize that. Also cool that the first purpose built one created the very name of the type of boat.

[@melpomene3793]

As a kid in Canada I LOVED Theodore Tugboat - like a nautical equivalent to Thomas the Tank Engine. I think it was set in Halifax maybe?

[@Dakiraun]

@@melpomene3793 Not sure - I was nearly an adult by the time that show started airing, so never saw it. There _is_ , however, a life-sized replica tug of Theodore currently moored for repairs in St. Catherines, ON. :)

[@bobkitchin8346]

Probably the most famous tug boat is the Hoga. It was at Pearl Harbor when the Japanese attacked, where it fought fires and rescued sailors. Later it worked as a fire boat on San Francisco Bay for many years. It's now a museum ship in Little Rock, Arkansas. If memory servers me correctly, it's the last Pearl Harbor ship still afloat.

[@mimigamerz]

Another banger from our friend, Mike Brady

[@IntrepidMilo]

I spent a summer working on a tug boat. It was absolutely amazing.

[@nitehawk86]

I had no idea that the first Tugboat was named Tug. That is amazing and I will never look at another tug-boat the same. The ancestor must be proud of those incredible modern ones.

[@f40carz93]

Look! It’s our friend Mike Brady, from Oceanliner designs! ❤ your vids

[@sergeantpeppers8858]

Now we have 2 friends; Mike Brady and Tom Shane ("Your friend in the diamond business").

[@Dayvit78]

It was 1:35 in. I was beginning to fear that he wasn't our friend anymore!

[@KnapfordMaster98]

The 1910s steam tugs have such a handsome outline. The quintessential steamboat imo.

[@clockworkdimetrodon1001]

At some point, I’d like to see you mention different drive systems, like the Voith Schneider Propeller system, which looks nothing like the propeller systems most are used to, and are frequently seen on tugs and ferries.

[@fastinradfordable]

Yes YES!!!

[@allangibson8494]

The horizontal paddle wheel…

[@roundsm18]

Locally we have a solid mix of VSP and Azipods

[@ReturnOfJackDawson]

Mike Brady is so classy wearing his tie that when he boarded the Titanic, even the iceberg would've tipped its hat

[@mandu9520]

Who doesn't have a soft spot for the humble and hardworking tugboat?

[@twinkholland8392]

Thank you for your awesome work, our friend, Mike Brady!

[@joeb5316]

On the day this video posted, a handful of tugs brought U.S.S. New Jersey (BB-62) back to her home in Camden, NJ, USA. They did an excellent job because the Black Dragon looked absolutely majestic.

[@omicronoverlord3533]

Man it's really mind blowing. Just think of all the tug jobs sailors have done over the past 200 years.

[@zamnodorszk7898]

When you're entering a new port for the first time, a good tug really sets you up for a the rest of the endeavour.

[@mrblond750]

I love the humble Tug Boat. I have a 36” Dumas RC Shelly Foss I take out frequently.

[@bartsiegwart2996]

I was on the USS Bryce Canyon AD-36 destroyer tender about 500 ft long and very tall. As we came in Kauai Hawaii 2 tugs tried to bring us to the pier. The wind came up and the Bryce canyon had a large "SAIL AREA" as it's called and the tugs were not strong enough. We crashed into the pier broadside and took out a half dozen pile ons the size of telephone poles.

[@MkurugenziMwenyekiti]

This video sparked up a very very old memory, from the late 80s when I was a kid, watching the British TV series Tugs. I haven't thought of that show in more than 35 years. The constant mention of the word tugs just somehow triggered a childhood favourite. I am so happy to have found the series on KZbin

[@CudaZen]

Thank you for the Tugboat info! Honestly, I was captivated the entire way through! As was said, they're underrated.

[@danemb3300]

As a ex seaman who lives on the Tyne and has worked on numerous boats and was around when the Eppleton Hall was being rescued, just think that without Joseph Price towing that first sailing ship out to sea how much world Commerce increased world trade because of that one small action.

[@haileyranson8255]

Oh hello! Fellow watcher born and bred in Tyne & Wear! I was born and lived in Sunderland so the Wear was (and still is) my local river, but I've worked in Newcastle on the Quayside for years. I love going to my favourite beach (Seaburn), standing with my feet in the shallows and watching all the ships pass on the horizon, coming down from Newcastle or higher. There are always so many! As a North Eastener, I'm so proud of our seafaring people & history ❤

[@theoccupier1652]

I served in the Royal Navytwice on the Aircraft Carrier (HMS Ark Royal RO9), we had two beautiful paddle wheels tugs built in 1957 ... RMAS Forceful A86 & RMAS Faithful A?? built especially to pull & push Aircraft Carriers around ... the were lovely ... old Faithfull guided us in & out many time ... used to love watching them working away :) @Oceanliner Designs ... You say one of the last paddle wheel tugs was built in 1914 ... Faithfull & Forcefull were built in 1957

[@allangibson8494]

The seven tug “Director” class… Technically Her Majesty’s Tug’s (HMT) not ships. Exceptionally odd in being diesel electric paddle wheelers.

[@splashtargetcoxswain]

@@allangibson8494my dad served as chief engineer on 3 of these vessels in Portsmouth Naval Base ie. Grinder, Griper and Forceful. I even had a couple of trips on the Grinder with my dad (no H & S in those days) and was even shown the paddles at work through an inspection hatch. Amazing.

[@T.Media1199]

I had no idea the tugboat's invention spanned nearly a century! This video brilliantly captures the gradual development and ultimate impact of this essential vessel. Truly inspiring to learn how it revolutionized maritime operations.

[@didikohen455]

The issue for sailing ships getting in and out of port is usually the wind direction, there's about 45 degrees from the wind that a modern sailing vessel can't use (I'm assuming that back then it was around 60), in the open ocean sailing vessels zigzag to solve that, but in port, a zigzag is usually not an option.

[@nickjohnson410]

I want a boat that looks like a massive dinghy, with the agility of a ballerina, the power of a freight train, and the work ethic of a mule. Thus the -Pushboat- Tugboat was born!

[@cyberfutur5000]

Great idea, let's also give all of them amazing capital war ship names, except the one that becomes the name sake for the whole concept and the one that makes it across the Atlantic to be preserved, obviously.

[@TheRealTburt]

​@@cyberfutur5000wait Tug is still around?

[@stevedrane2364]

Fascinating. . Thank you .

[@ilovsleeping]

your channel is perfect for my autistic brain. thank you. ❤ i have been parroting information i’ve learned from your videos to anyone who will listen. “did you know that the roman-style bathhouses are one of the best preserved areas on the sunken RMS titanic?”

[@haileyranson8255]

I have ADHD and I think I'm on the Autism spectrum (although I have no official diagnosis for that), but I totally agree! I came across Mike and this channel looking through the shorts section and now I'm obsessed. His voice is so soothing and I'm going down the rabbit hole of seafaring badly now 😂 my daughter is just like me with ADHD and suspected Autism and she loves it too. My husband is pretty sick of me telling him random tales about ocean liners and ships though 😂

[@Darth_Barnaby]

I remember reading in a book, that before ships had steam engines, to leave port they would drop the anchor into the biggest rowboat, which then rowed out a ways, before dropping the anchor. The ship would then slowly winch in the anchor, thereby moving the ship, and then repeat until you had left port. But the book was about an old warship, regarding the somewhat narrow channel through Copenhagen, so i dont know how common it was outside that

[@karlvs2616]

Anyone else notice the 2 unlucky bodies hanging from the aft sail top cross-beam at 8:21 ? Another great video from our good friend Mike Brady - thank you sir!

[@drode5985]

Men found guilty of attempted mutiny of the USS Somers. I noticed that too and had to pause the video till I figured it out lol.

[@davidcoudriet8439]

Enjoyed this one immensely!

[@thestudentofficial5483]

Tugboats are awesome

[@tugsntrains]

Big fan of the channel and this video has been the icing on the cake. My family have worked on tugs and used to spend my summers on tugs. I went to sea as a teenager after being fascinated and spurred on by ocean liners and their beautiful history. After serving on passenger ferries, general cargo ships and RO-RO vessels and becoming an officer i finally made it tugs after coming full circle. 15 years later im now Master on one of the most powerful tugs in Europe. Cheers for making this video Mike!

[@GrahamFrench247]

I’m from Newcastle upon Tyne and I never knew about the tugboat! Excellent content and now a subscriber!

[@christopherlahr2218]

Excellent short vid. Would love to see a more indepth history of their design evolution.

[@WizrdGomez]

Please never stop making videos my friend, Mike Brady!

[@Uncle_Roadkill]

Eyyyy, it's our friend Tugboat, from Ocean Liner Tugging!

[@Uncle_Roadkill]

@vibratingstring Tuggy didn't choose tug life, he invented it

[@hippiechick2112]

Hi, my friend, Mike Brady, from Oceanliner Designs. Thank you for posting this video. I did not realize the history of the tugboat. Totally the most important.

[@earllutz2663]

Thank you for the informative video on Tugboats. I knew a man who was a tugboat Captain.

[@mgalegacy1266]

I love working on my tugs

[@usaturnuranus]

And naturally the gentleman's name would be "Hulls". Growing up, our family dentists were a father and son team who's last names meant they were both "Dr. Pullen". Seriously. It's like the universe decided their fates in advance.

[@twinkholland8392]

Are your Dr. Pullens in HSV AL?

[@Daniel_Huffman]

I thought the most common surname for a dentist was Paine/Payne?

[@anananandsdsdsds3486]

It's called 'Nominative Determinism' - it's how you get a fire chief called Les McBurney, for example.

[@usaturnuranus]

@@twinkholland8392 you got it!

[@usaturnuranus]

@@twinkholland8392 that's it!

[@coolmasterztv3088]

This is so fascinating! How can such a small boat tow and pull a huge boat. You explained clearly good job!

[@Tina06019]

My BIL’s father was a tugboat captain who worked in NY harbour. He was an impressive man, and taught my BIL a lot.

[@saybya]

Love this kind of content. The titanic stuff is nice and all but this is the kind of thing that’s really captivating to me.

[@Art-is1dg]

The ability of three workboats to tow, and then position a MODU next to an existing production platform, so that the drilling package can then be cantilevered out over the slots, or existing wells is amazing.

[@striderx8255]

" The tugboat, for its size, is the most powerful craft afloat." - Captain Star

[@littlemiss_76]

As a kid I loved Tubboats, I had a Fisher Price tugboat, I called it Scuffy after the Little Golden Book.

[@melissanichols784]

A number of years ago, during college and for a few years after, I got to ride on a tug boat with my university's alumni band for the opening day of boating season here in the Pacific Northwest. I can't for the life of me remember her name, but she was a good little boat and it was fun to play music with my fellow band members completely encircling her decks. She was also over 90 years old at the time (if she's still around, she''ll be over 110 now), and long since retired from her original purpose. I recall that her engine was sometimes not always cooperative. She never broke down in the middle of the parade, but there was one time where the captain almost had to call a modern tug to tow us back to the marina from the middle of Lake Washington because her engine had died and it took almost two hours to get it running again.

[@gnothisauton2116]

I just want to commend you on the classy nature of your channel. Your stylish dress, warm personality, and friendly salutation are a real bonus to your content. Thank you for setting a high bar, my friend.

[@markup6394]

There is a very famous painting by J.M.W. Turner from 1839, The Fighting Temeraire, where a small tuck boat pulls a ghostly sailing ship. I had almost expected you to show it here :D

[@sydhenderson6753]

I was expecting it.

[@johnkuzma7066]

Would you consider doing a video on the Lake Tahoe steamers? They both have a very interesting history as both log tugs and high class passenger vessels with the SS Meteor being the fastest ship in the world at 19.5 Knotts while burning only wood!

[@danielintheantipodes6741]

Thank you for the video! Fabulous information and I always enjoy your visuals, especially the archive footage!

[@repaircollc]

That's so interesting! I love tugboats but never new their story. You have a wonderful way of narrative abilities. I enjoy all your videos. Please keep up the excellent work. ✌️

[@linnharamis1496]

Thanks!

[@LeighFae]

This was hella interesting I would have watched an hour long version of this gladly

[@mikegyro]

Battleship New Jersey needs those tugs for one more trip.

[@alberttaylor3917]

The last paddle tugs were the 'Director class' diesel electric driven, built in the 1950s, they were squat so that they could get under the overhang of aircraft carriers. I used see them moored up in the Royal Clarence yard, Gosport.

[@iamarobotninja]

The amount of research on this is astonishing. Although I like "history of" videos from other sources, they have the habit of presenting the subject as a linear unfolding. But as you show in this video "the history of" most things is typically non-linear with false starts, interruptions, mistakes etc. Great work 🎉

[@Twofrogsonecup]

Can we get another hour long video, I'm sure it takes a while but I really love the long vids

[@OnionChoppingNinja]

"I didn't choose the tug life, the Tug life chose me" - Tyne Steamboat -

[@davidbarnsley8486]

What a great story cheers Mike

[@roseyvang2276]

I saw your comment on the analog Siri about the Olympic😊.

[@klauswiehl348]

What a wonderful video this was. Do a follow up please. I would happily watch a series about tugs from around the world. Here in South Africa we have a rich tugboat history, from the old harbour steam tugs of a bygone era, to the more recent famous deep sea salvage sisters Wolraad Woltemade and John Ross, for a while the world's fastest and most powerful, who not only protected our coastline, but traversed the globe's oceans on adventurous rescue missions.

[@Maddd17]

I love this slight diversion from your “usual” topics! More random naval history 😁

[@frankbjr1250]

My favorite channel. Thank you 🙏

[@shadowpulpfan1810]

Thank you for this important chapter in maritime history! I think the Eppleton Hall stole the show. I'd love to see a video on her. There is one on her by 'the unlucky tug' that I will have to watch in full later. There was a UK paddle tug on display in the Neptune Hall of the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich. When the museum was re-designed, the Reliant was dismantled, removed, and put in storage (circa 1996). One engine and one of the paddle wheels was saved and is now on display, but most of her was scrapped, despite members of the public being told she was still in storage. The only other UK made paddle tug (John H Amos) in the UK is in very poor condition and is attempting to be restored. Apparently maintaining and displaying the Reliant was not worth the funds and floor space. (I am sure I am misquoting because I find this very upsetting.) I can't believe this museum destroyed the only displayable example of a British paddle tug in the UK because it wasn't considered important enough to preserve. Geez-oh-pete (region explative), how short sighted can you get!?! So much for the museums 'cost reduction exercise'. Thankfully a small number of other paddle tugs do exist in other countries (mostly) as museum ships. Some other may still be in use in former Soviet countries.

[@carlcushmanhybels8159]

I learned a lot and enjoyed the journey; Thanks Mike Brady and all.

[@williamwelch7]

Thanks Mike. You're so professional in your presentations, I feel like I should be calling you Mr. Brady, despite the fact you're probably 25-30 years younger than me.

[@wildtrak6735]

I love that video! You should make more videos about the hidden heroes of the maritime world😄

[@fredricgreenblott4169]

Only our friend Mike Brady from Oceanliner Designs could make an entire video about tugboats and make it just as captivating as the rest of his videos!

[@michaelgordon8763]

there's a very cute Canadian children's show called Theodore Tugboat starring talking tugboats and the only human in the series plays the "Harbourmaster." Ringo Starr once guest starred in this role...of course there are visiting talking ships in the harbour. It was made by 40 Canadians in Halifax...of course being a major east coast harbour...psst my Dad was in the Canadian Navy so I have spent many times at the water's edge observing busy tugboats....let's recall it was a tugboat that saved the Titanic from colliding with the SS New York in the Southhampton Harbour...hmm if it hadn't we might not be talking as much about the Titanic today...thanks Mike...very very well done...as always new information for your fans...cheers Mike

[@motorv8N]

Wonderful history lesson - thank you, Mike!

[@johnjephcote7636]

One thinks of Turner's 'Fighting Temeraire' coming up the Thames for dismantling behind a pugnatious tug. Turner had, for artistic effect, not only partly rigged the old warship but had the tug's funnel moved forward. An engraving of the painting moved the funnel back to its correct position invoking the ire of Turner. The paddle tug belching sparks does take centre stage, the temeraire is almost ghostly behind.

[@codyhorner7901]

I absolutely loved this video! So interesting! ❤ Well done!

[@LDDavis911]

Fascinating. Well done.

[@kennelson3848]

Old Tyne steamboat..what fun!

[@DavidMCheney]

Very informative and well presented video. Thank you

[@DavidAtkinson-cd3os]

I seem to recall seeing paddle powered tugs being used by the Royal Navy in Portsmouth. This would have been in the late 1950s. As an aside my late cousin was a tugboat skipper working for the PLA, Port of London Authority, on the Thames when a gust of wind caught the ship he was towing and it flipped his tug, which with nearly negative buoyancy promptly sank. It was soon recovered and was put back into service. 12:06

[@RabbitInAHumanWoild]

Great video full of information that was new to me. And, Titanic was nowhere to be seen!

[@TheDisneylover23]

You come up with the coolest stuff! Thank you, my friend, Mike Brady!

[@Naval-Gazing]

A powerful engine with flotation and steering accessories.

[@knutarneaakra6013]

You SIR are a real gentleman. Telling interesting true full of fact history's. Hard to find on youtube now adays. Lot of respect from Norway. 😊 Sorry for my bad written english😢

[@mssixty3426]

😢I've been looking forward to your coverage of this! Thank you! Love the graphics in the first 3 minutes 😄

[@brucelawson642]

My father in law was a tugboat captain in Houston, Texas. He was a tough ole bird.😊

[@randelbrooks]

Hello Mike I believe there are a pair of side paddle wheel tug boats in service in the Chicago area on the Great Lakes. I saw pictures of them displayed on the Natchez steamboat New Orleans a few years ago. Cool

[@tonyowen116]

Really interesting video on the history of the Tug Boat. Cheers Mike.

[@OceanlinerDesigns]

Thank you!

[@Ship.nerd.735]

Such a great video always had an interest for these little boats and how they worked, especially because of growing up watching Tugs. Which top hat was easily the best character!

[@stevenkarnisky411]

Good one, friend Brady. I have toured the Eppleton Hall in SF.

[@Stanty16]

Looking at the side profile of that 1803 tug, I love how the paddle wheel is sat up high in the hull and doesn't protrude below the keel. I'm sure in terms of power delivery it won't be as efficient, but something about it remaining an unbroken line bow to stern is very cool to me. And no doubt would be great for shallow waters

[@ponyote]

It's our friend Mike Brady, with another lovely and informative video. Yay!