1966 ❖ FOSS ICEBREAKER

  

Tug ALASKA HUSKY
built for Foss Launch & Tug Co., 
by Todd Shipyard in Houston, Texas.
Launch day photo in October 1966.
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AP wire photo from the archives of the 
Saltwater People Historical Society©

The 182-ft vessel was designed for breaking ice; the first with icebreaker features to be constructed in the Houston, Texas yard. A larger and more powerful version of the Foss Launch & Tug Co., icebreaker-supply vessels. Unlike the earlier vessels which were converted from surplus Navy Landing craft, Alaska Husky was built from the keel up by Todd Shipyard. The Husky has two 1,530 HP engines driving twin screws'. 

      She is designed as a year-round utility vessel serving the offshore oil industry in Cook Inlet, Alaska, with a two-year charter to Pan American Oil Co., and was dispatched to Cook Inlet in charge of Capt. Don Gordon.

Source: Gordon Newell, editor. H.W. McCurdy's Marine History of the Pacific Northwest.Seattle; Superior Publishing. (1966-1976) Founder Subscriber No. 187.