Photo by Cliff West
The Stacey Foss is an ocean-going tugboat belonging to the Foss Maritime Company. It was built by the Fairhaven Shipyard in Massachusetts and was delivered on July 31, 1976. It is 111 feet, 6 inches long and 35 feet, 6 inches wide with a draft of 13 feet, 6 inches. It is powered by two General Motors Electro-Motive Division 8-cylinder 645-E7 diesel engines producing a combined 2,900 horsepower, with twin Kort nozzles with 98” diameter 4-bladed fixed pitch propellers. It can produce 46 tons of bollard pull and has a fuel capacity of 85,000 gallons. It is shown here on the Columbia River at Rainier, Oregon in the summer of 2002.
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