BOURNE & The tugboat saga has come to an end. The New York Central No. 16 tugboat a local landmark on the rotary at the east end of Buzzards Bay for 24 years will be disassembled by Steven Truema… ...

The New York Central No. 16 tugboat will soon be removed from Belmont Circle in Buzzards Bay. CVS and the North River Tugboat Museum of Kingston, N.Y., ...

Francois says saving the New York Central 16 - Shaw salvaged it from a Staten Island graveyard - is not unprecedented. He said a similar project is under way in Boston to preserve the tugboat Luna.

Normally we don’t associate tugboats with disruption and chaos, but at a time when New York City’s shipping industry was king, the Tugboat Strike of 1946 threw the City into turmoil.