Nichols Brothers building Foss tugs to Jensen design

Jensen Maritime Consultants completed a design for four new tractor tugs for Foss Maritime. Crowley Maritime rendering

Crowley Maritime Corp.’s Seattle-based naval architecture and marine engineering company, Jensen Maritime Consultants, has provided the detailed design for an initial four, with an option for six additional, Tier IV tractor tugboats being built by Nichols Brothers Boat Builders for Foss Maritime.

The 90-short ton bollard pull tugs are based on Jensen’s Valor tugboat design, of which nine have been successfully built and deployed to date and an additional five remain under design/construction....

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Nichols Brothers building four new tractor tugs for Foss

The contract is for four new tugs with an option to build as many as six more. Nichols Brothers Boat Builders photo.

Nichols Brothers Boat Builders (NBBB), Freeland, Wash., is building four new 90-ton bollard pull tractor tugs for Foss Maritime, Seattle. The contract has an option for six additional tugs and marks the first agreement between the two companies.

Foss has selected a design by Jensen Maritime Consultants, Seattle. The 100’x 40′ Z-drive tractor tugs will be built to Coast Guard Subchapter M regulatory standards, with ABS loadline certification, and UWILD notation.

Main propulsion will come from two...

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