Salt Lake Telegram | 1908-01-28 | Page 1 | Tug to Tow Tug of Oil

I TUG TO TOW TUG oi Of OIL Novel Plan Adopted to Take Hercules and Goliath Around Cape Horn Without Without Without With- With out Stopping for Fuel Jan 25 S. A A novel method has been adopted to get et the nc new tu tugs Hercules and Goliath built at Camden N. N J. J to San Francisco Pr with with- 2 out having st stop P on the wa way for fuel They are oil burners and as there thero is is no fuel ful oil supplies to bo be e had after leaving the Atlantic coast until the vessels reach California alifornia the question ques ques- tion of having a n sufficient amount of oil on hand was one cue of the tho highest import import- ance anee Consequently it was d decided that when the tU tugs tuga B leave Camden tomorrow for San Francisco the Hercules shall tow the Goliath The Tho latter has b been n con con- vetted into a bulk bar barge e temporarily and has been hued filled with fuel oil This will supply the tho Hercules when her own O supply becomes exhausted The tugs were built for tho the Ship Owners and r Me-r chants chants' ru Tugboat boat company of San Francisco iran Fran c cisco and arc each feet lon long