A tugboat is a small, strong boat that pushes or pulls a larger ship from one place to another. Tugboats use an engine for their power.
Drag the puzzle pieces into the box to make a tugboat.
Fun Fact: Tugboats help to move ships much bigger than they are. Imagine if you had to push a semi-truck into its parking place; that is what tugboats do with large ships in harbors!
Here is the tugboat Satisfaction towing a schooner. To learn more about this and other tugboats, click on the links below.
Satisfaction (1894) towing schooner J.H. Stevens Photo courtesy of the C. Patrick Labadie Collection