Did you know how Foss Maritime got started?:
1 Like
It’d be hard to work in the PNW and not know about how Foss started.
3 Likes
Thea Foss AKA Tugboat Annie.
Most mariners in the PNW would know that
Just like most Longies and mariners know what happen on 5 July 1934
Yes I can see now that this is a well known story among mariners in the PNW:
Was this comedy actually based on the story of Thea Foss in any manner?:
Thea Christiansen Foss (8 June 1858 – 7 June 1927) was the founder of Foss Maritime, the largest tugboat company in the western United States. She was the real-life person on which the fictional character “Tugboat Annie” (originally portrayed on film in 1933 by Marie Dressler) may have been very loosely based.
I suspect the film was based on the Tugboat Annie stories published in the Saturday Evening Post and perhaps elsewhere.