N&W in 1909--Tug boat

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Bluefield Daily Telegraph
April 18, 1909

TUGBOAT JOHN TWOHY, JR., IS LAUNCHED
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Built by Man Well Known in Coal Fields and Is Most Powerful Used at Lamberts Point

    Norfolk, Va., April 17--Capt. John Twohy, who is well known by all of the coal operators in the Flat Top coal fields, launched several days ago at Newport News, Va., a new tug boat to be used in docking the steamers at Lambert's Point coal piers.  This boat was christened by Capt. Twohy's son and the boat will be named John Twohy, jr.
    This is the most powerful boat that has ever been used at the Lamberts Point piers in docking steamers, but as the class of steamers that are now being built are much larger, it requires a larger tug boat to put them along side the piers, and as the piers at Lambert's Point are and have been known for years as the largest and fastest bunker coal loading piers in the world, Mr. Twohy has left nothing undone in the building of this boat that will in any way delay the docking of steamers, and with the continued output of the world's famous fuel coal known as the C. C. & B. Pocahontas, all steamers coming to that port are bunkered and sail before steamers at other points are put alongside piers to take on coal.
    The last tug which Mr. Twohy had built was such a powerful and seaworthy tug that President Roosevelt bought it to help handle the dredging machines that are and have been used in the digging of the Panama Canal, and this tug which was built to use C. C. & B. coal has done more work towards building the canal than any other two boats that are there at work.
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Gordon Hamilton
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