Nautical Decor Painting - Tugboat LELA FOSS #1 by James Williamson

Tugboat LELA FOSS #1 is a painting by James Williamson which was uploaded on August 8th, 2011.

Tugboat LELA FOSS #1

Vintage tugboat LELA FOSS watercolor painting by artist James Williamson.

Artist James Williamson, ASMA
Signature Member of the American... more

by James Williamson

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Price

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Dimensions

16.000 x 12.000 inches

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Title

Tugboat LELA FOSS #1

Artist

James Williamson

Medium

Painting - Watercolor

Description

Vintage tugboat LELA FOSS watercolor painting by artist James Williamson.

Artist James Williamson, ASMA
Signature Member of the American Society of Marine Artists

A beautiful Pacific Northwest day finds LELA FOSS resting on calm waters. LELA is a historic FOSS Tugboat. Portrayed in watercolor by artist James Williamson.

Tugboat History
Classic Puget Sound tugs were gallant workboats with a history of nostalgic drama and color in tugboat operation on Pacific waters. Tugboats are a colorful and essential part of the Pacific Coast seascape today, just as they were a century ago.

Pushing their way through fierce storms to find a stricken ship a thousand miles at sea or sailing down a fairway on a summer afternoon with seagulls crying and catching rides on the boom of logs astern, tugboats are a colorful and essential part of the Pacific Northwest Coast today.

The hiss of steam and the creak of walking beams have given way to diesel and tractor power. Tugboats are a story of brave men in powerful vessels who are not afraid to take on a mighty ocean. Tug-boating is a hard-hitting sea adventure of the great ships of sail and steam alike.

Tug boating started on Puget Sound as a means of getting trees to the mills. The ‘timber barons’ of the nineteenth century built their sawmills on tidewater, rigged with miles of virgin forests. Steam tugs towed the log rafts to the mills.

Sailing ships came to Puget Sound from all ports of the world, around the Horn from Europe and East Coast ports, across the Pacific from the Orient and the Antipodes, and up the West Coast from the booming towns of California.
Tugboats Today
Originally the tugs' purpose was the towing of ocean sailing vessels to and from their intended docks. Today, diesel, gas and electric engines power ships, yet they continue to require assistance of these powerful tugboats in and out of docks throughout Puget Sound.