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TugA tug is a motorship, which is used to pull other ships (see shipping) in harbours, over the open sea or through rivers and canals. Tugs are quite stong for their size. Early tugs had been steam engines , today mostly diesel engines are used. They have mostly a high manoeuvrability due to their propulsion units. Instead of a normal propeller, often the so called Schottel[?] propulsion system or the Voith-Schneider[?] propulsion system are used. He was inclined to follow the sea, as one of
brother.html">brother.html">brother James was a printer.html">printer.html">printer.html">printer, and in those days a printer was a
always a printer and often composed his articles as he set.html">set.html">set them
sets type is a compositor. Now James needed an apprentice. It
bound over by law to serve his brother.
James Franklin printed the "New England Courant", the fourth
to write articles for this newspaper.html">newspaper. Then when his brother was
and forbidden to continue as the publisher, the newspaper
after serving for about two years, made up his mind to run away.
York, there to find that the one printer in the town, William
Philadelphia. By boat to Perth Amboy, on foot to Burlington, and
consumed five days. On a Sunday morning in October, 1723, the
once set out to find food and explore America's metropolis.
Benjamin found employment.html">employment with Samuel Keimer, an eccentric
Read, whose daughter Deborah was later to become his wife. The
William Keith, Governor of Pennsylvania, who promised to set him
printing.html">printing outfit. On the Governor's promise to send a letter of
Governor broke his word, and Franklin was obliged to remain in
that he printed the first of his many pamphlets, an attack on
Necessity, Pleasure and Pain." Though he met some interesting
every particle of information possible, no future opened for him
with employment as a clerk. But early in 1727 his employer died,
found work again in Keimer's printing office. Here his. All is still licensed under the GNU FDL.
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