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  • Tho 'they ruled the days of sail note: Geoff Noble was a tugboatman out of Vancouver B.C., who has since moved to Halifax.

    Blue Nose Line 1999

  • "Hey, there!" snarled the tugboatman, most ungraciously, "I just left a new rowboat down in the Battery basin for you."

    Dan Merrithew Lawrence Perry 1914

  • No one liked him; but the steamship-captains engaged his services for towing and piloting, nevertheless, for the reason that they considered him a disagreeable necessity, believing that no other tugboatman could serve them so well.

    Dan Merrithew Lawrence Perry 1914

  • He gazed at the tugboatman silently for a minute, -- and then he knocked Captain Barney to the sidewalk.

    Dan Merrithew Lawrence Perry 1914

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