Ryba (tug)

The Grays Harbor tug Ryba of the Allman Hubble Tug Boat Co., (a 66 -foot steamer built at Alameda, Calif. in 1902), capsized on the bar while heading back after taking a pilot to an incoming ship April 30. Although the Etna Maru, aboard which the Ryba had just placed Pilot Charles Hanson, the Lake Frances, the dredge Culebra and the tug John Cudahy were all nearby, only Capt. Samuel A. Anderson, master of the tug could be saved. Basil Hubble, engineer and brother of Frank and Alonzo Hubble, owners of the tug, Harry Hubble, Jr., a nephew, the vessel's fireman, and deckhand Phillip Barnes, went down with the capsized tug. Gordon Newell, Maritime Events of 1925, H.W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest. Seattle: Superior, 1966, p. 368.

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