Titan and William Dolard

I was nosing around the Detroit and Rouge rivers today and spotted the tugs Titan and William Dolard nestled on the Rouge.

And elsewhere about these 2 tugboats,

From TugboatHunter: "The tug William Dolard ... doesn’t run, and was formerly Princess No. 1. She is tucked up in the Old Rouge behind Zug Island. Titan, a former fish tug, is serviceable but doesn’t do much, if anything. She was previously Gotham."

And see a picture here of the Titan working (from BoatNerd).

I also got a look at the Walter J. McCarthy Jr. headed up the Detroit River.

tugboats and shipspotting.com

So, on the way to looking something up, I ran across some photos of the Costa Concordia turned on its side somewhere off the coast of Italy (January 2012). You probably already heard about that but I didn't because I don't watch TV news or listen to the radio or read the newspaper.

As I was collecting photos of the Costa Concordia to use as Windows backgrounds, I saw one of the photos was from a site called ShipSpotting.com. Since I like looking at ship pictures, I went there and discovered it was a great site for downloading more pics. You have to register to the site to look at the full screen pictures but it's a small price to pay.

And jackpot! There are many of my favorite - that scrappy, little, harbor worker - the tugboat.