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A tugboat, or tug, is a motor ship used to manoeuvre, primarily by towing, other vessels in harbours, over the open sea or through rivers and canals. They are also used to tow barges, disabled ships, or other equipment. Formerly sometimes in categorising "towboat" was used, but Webster's new twentieth century dictionary describes "tug" with "to tow with a tugboat".

Hochseeschlepper
Hochseeschlepper Juist
Schlepper Wustrow
Schlepper Wustrow / bow
Schlepper Wustrow / stern
Schlepper Dranske
Schlepper Dranske
Schlepper Fairplay 26
Polish tugboat Ajaks
The French tugboat Abeille Flandre in Toulon's harbor (France).
The French tugboat Guerande in St Nazaire's harbor (France).

Tugboat operating on the Mississippi River
Bugsier 18, Hamburg, Germany
ASL Prosper III, Samarinda, Indonesia.
Tugboat V. B. Sargazos, Port of the Bay of Cadiz, Spain
Tugboat pulling a barge in a strait in Helsinki
Tugboat Agia Varvara at Krakari Jetty, Piraeus, Greece
Tugboat Atreus, A-439, of the Hellenic Navy
Tugboat Alexander 3, Piraeus, Greece
Tugboat Armadores I, Piraeus, Greece
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