Agreed. Just rig one up and send it to the black sea right now and see what happens. I mean we literally did that to a crop duster and it's epic. Like let's just up armor the play boat and see what Russia does about it

You mean like in Battleship?

Like putting bazookas on an L-4 Grasshopper in WWII.

Like a technical on land, a light unarmoured pickup truck with big gun in the back

And antiaircraft missiles.

arizona? still on the active list... though not really very active

@@pezpengy9308 USS Hoga

@@sinisterisrandom8537 Why she ended up in Arkansas is mind boggling. Definitely should have been part of the Arizona Memorial, or near where she spent the majority of her life as a fireboat!!

Shouldn’t there be at least one defensive weapon on them⁉️

@@treystephens6166 Why would they need any? They remain inside the harbor, or in the near vicinity of the harbor. They are workboats, not combat vessels.

@@bobd9193 right, I mean just in case. You can’t be too careful.

Correct! Tugs are not "navy ships", they are essential port equipment!

@@arnaldopellizzaro3381 they are tiny Navy boats. 🇺🇸

They are the unimogs of the sea

Army mariner here, saw a one of these at Little Creek in 2018

Chuck’s closed somewhere in the mid 2000’s I believe. Maybe that’s it.

Now it's call Sneeds

@@JacksonEngineering Robert Alan Design, has designed a training/tug of about that size the BRAtt, in an aluminum or a steel version, the Olympic Drive, was sold to another BC firm, still sold under the Olympic Drives and Equipment name, in 100, 140 and 200 hp models. Best wishes from the smokey North.

I'm with you on that, sir!

This channel is a content farm, what do you expect?

What rank would be given one of these to command?

@@spikespa5208 I would think civilian contractors or a Boatswain's Mate 3 and up.

@@spikespa5208 Probably not much. Seaman (E3) or perhaps even apprentice seaman (E2)? You will howver still be refered to as the captain of that vessel, no matter your rank.😂

True story sir, and I'll echo you statement & sentiments about them as well

battleship: hardcore edition both team get 2 1x1 pieces and you lost if you miss 5 shot in a row

Seen one in person, hard to imagine a boat smaller

I drove both the pusher boat at Puget Sound Naval Shipyard and these Beavers and your are correct it is smaller but not by much.

@@boats7971Is this smaller boat a Navy vessel or a civilian vessel?

@@jeffreypierson2064 It's US Navy, only us BM's drove it during my 3 years there.

@@jeffreypierson2064 Also Puget Sound Naval Shipyard is 2 bases combined into one. The pusher boat that I referring to is at Bangor Delta Pier, not the Bremerton Piers.

I find your statement so interesting & compelling, as far as the reference to your firsthand account at witnessing them in action, working (specifically) on the James River. I'm from & live in NC now but my whole family is from VA, and a few times in the past during my life I've lived in several places there, and still continue to visit & travel to/thru VA to this day. Anyways tho, what I'm getting at, is during Dark's video, I heard him mention places like Washington (state), San Diego & others (definitely seemed like mainly west coast/Pacific Northwest areas), but failed to hear a word or reference to this of ANY kind, of this powerful, tough, little boat working ANYWHERE on the east coast... Which I honestly find quite astounding, to be honest. There are so many ports, naval (as well as other military) installations.. ON the coast and/or with coastal/other waterways connecting them to the ICW & the rest of the world. Most obvious, of course, being Norfolk Naval Base (not to mention the Newport news shipyards & such too), plus Baltimore/DC metro area, philly, new jersey, new york, and all throughout new England, as well as further south: morehead city & Wilmington, NC; Charleston, SC; Savannah, GA; and all thru Florida & the Gulf Coast (alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana & Texas), so again i just found it hard to believe that none of these incredibly, almost critically, useful work boats aren't or weren't really even around. I've always been fascinated & interested in the subject and spent much of my life around water, so it would just be pretty damn cool to actually get to finally see one in real life, especially actually doing her thing. Anyways, sorry to sort of rant I guess, but I appreciate you sharing. Cheers sir

On the Oregon coast in the 80" s they were called log bronks

It just mentioned coos bay Oregon that is my home town

@@brentmiller3951Florence is my home port 👍🏻

The log broncs aren’t really shallow draft compared to their length… huge screw enclosed in a big boxy cage hangs about 5feet below the water line. I guess that’s shallow compared to a big seagoing ship .. but they definitely aren’t flat bottomed

I used to run one making log rafts on the Colombia. SDS still uses them.

@@guaporeturns9472 I ran it a few time I ran a crane most of the time dropping scaled log bundles into the raft … Port of Everett Washington

too small for anything the coast guard needs

Nothing, Israel needs more foreign aid.

LOL That's because the Russian Navy can't keep their aircraft carrier running...

​@jeffreypierson2064 i know. That's the joke.

Civilian Port Ops

A 238 hp 6-71 is far more powerful than the rating suggests, and can do it indefinitely. Most auto or leisure boat engines are rated for very short duty cycles. These diesels can run balls out full load constantly.

​@@randymagnum143agreed, you CAN get more power out of a 6-71 but the stock setting is the stock setting and AFAIK it's pretty accurate. It is true that it is rated for continuous duty, while many leisure engines are not. That does not change anything, however: that engine IS pretty small for a tugboat and it is SIGNIFICANTLY less than what will be on the fishing boat that was in the video. If we want to go one step further, a lot of serious leisure engines have acceptable load factors of 0.60 or so. So you can't run them at full throttle for long periods of time, but a load factor of 0.60 on fuel means, as I am sure you know, running at 70% power continuously. And 70% of 600 (or whatever other number) is a lot more than 260. So no matter what, that is a small engine for a tugboat and a very small number for a serious civilian fishing boat. Oh and - generally tugboats do not run at high load factors or for very long anyways (very long being relative, of course, but there will be very few cases where a tugboat will have to run for more than 24 hours at a time, doubly so for port tugs like the small vessel in the video, which is obviously not equipped for long usage. Mind you, the vessel is entertaining and interesting but the claims about power should be brought back to reality, that's all.

@@luigifabio77for what it's worth, a big block chevy continuous rating is about 200 hp in best case scenario, and an ls chevy is roughly the same. Any more and mtbo is short enough to be prohibitive. I'm just saying, hp ratings are not reliable from sport, automotive, or consumer engines. It is half wishful thinking, and half lies. A "200 hp" Nissan engine will actually make about 35 continuous.

​@@randymagnum143 once again, a continuous rating only matters in a very small number of cases and neither tugboats nor fishing vessels are among them, save for very specific cases (which do exist, granted). It is also not a good measure of 'more power' - 235 or 480 HP are 235 or 480 HP. Now, leaving automotive engines aside - no, the figures are not accurate but let's let them be- let's look at marine diesel engines for the leisure or the leisure/professional market. Leave Deutz, Man and the other big diesels be and let's look at John Deere's marine diesels - the specs are easy to get to. A 6068 will do 250 HP in M1 (continuous rating) and 400 HP in M5 (leisure,