Best Small Escort Tug – A. Thomas Higgins – Robert Allan Ltd Only an American owner could name a tug this way and want it to look like a traditional American boat, ..
A. Thomas Higgins
WorkBoat names its 10 Significant Boats of 2020
WorkBoat has announced its 10 Significant Boats for 2020. Once again, the readers of WorkBoat and WorkBoat.com will choose the Boat of the Year from the top 10 list. You can place your VOTE HERE. Voting ends on Thursday, Nov. 12, 2020.
Last year’s Boat of the Year was Crowley Maritime‘s Taino and El Coqui, built at VT Halter Marine.
The Boat of the Year will be announced on Dec. 17 exclusively on WorkBoat.com. Prior to that be sure to join us for a free webinar on Dec. 10 with WorkBoat Editor Ken...
https://www.workboat.com/news/shipbuilding/workboat-names-its-10-significant-boats-of-2020/
VESSEL REVIEW | A. Thomas Higgins – Second in new series of “go-anywhere” river and ocean tugs for Bisso Offshore
Eastern Shipbuilding Group of Panama City, Florida, recently delivered a new steel-hulled Z-drive ship assist tug to Bisso Offshore, a division of marine services company ..
Eastern Shipbuilding delivers second tug in series to Bisso Offshore
Eastern Shipbuilding Group has delivered the newbuild tug A. Thomas Higgins to E.N. Bisso and Son subsidiary Bisso Offshore. The tug is the second in a series of Robert ..
New designs and new features for towing winches
Recently, Markey Machinery sent several winches to Gulf Island Shipyard for various Robert Allan Ltd. (RAL) designed tugboats. That includes two newly designed winches for an RAL Tundra 3600 Ice-class 1A tug, the Seaway Guardian, being built at the Jennings, La., shipyard for the Saint Lawrence Seaway Development Corporation (SLSDC).
One of the winches is a 100-hp, single-drum, Ice-class electric towing winch, model TES-34UL, that has to fit inside an enclosed winch room on the stern with the...
https://www.workboat.com/news/people-and-products/new-designs-and-new-features-for-towing-winches/