tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2454798339310771617.post2470947716509721806..comments2024-03-28T06:45:47.449-03:00Comments on Shipfax: Yacht Visitor and CousinMachttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09559556529557710099noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2454798339310771617.post-79053574434992685352011-03-22T07:14:48.755-03:002011-03-22T07:14:48.755-03:00I had the honor of painting the top deck, the Hull...I had the honor of painting the top deck, the Hull, (off of a skiff) and did some wood work on the captain's quarters of Thea Foss, the flag ship of opening day. Previously owned by John Barrymore then Charlie Chaplin before Mrs. Foss bought the 120’ yacht. Thea Foss launched the future tugboat firm on the Tacoma waterfront in the summer of 1889. She started the Foss Launch Company, which eventually became the Seattle-based Foss Maritime. <br /> The boisterous Tugboat Annie character first appeared in a series of stories in the Saturday Evening Post written by the author Norman Reilly Raine which were based on the life of Thea Foss of Tacoma, Washington. Then Tugboat Annie, a 1933 movie starring Marie Dressler and Wallace Beery, a comically quarrelsome middle-aged couple who operate a tugboat came next. Then came the Adventures of Tugboat Annie a 1957 Canadian-filmed television series.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05339290730547230579noreply@blogger.com