MM&P c rewed tug Warrior running off Poin t Barrow, Alaska in oil pipeline and Sealift supply operation to Prudhoe Bay.
This is MM&P Country. Square-riggers that brought the "49ers" up from the Isthmus to the gold fields of California , deep- laden lu mber schooners, puffing stern wheeled steam tugs , all make up the rich seafaring tradition of our nation's west coast. Today, skilled members of the MM&P Pacific Maritime Region Group continue to keep the area's vital waterborne trade "on the move" from Mexico to Canada and Alaska and Wood chip burning Columbia River log towboat of the 1920s. throughout the Pacific Ocean. These union seamen (and women too) include San Francisco inland pilots, licensed deck and engineer officers, and also unlicensed personnel on harbor and world-ranging ocean tugs , excursion boats , Washington State super-ferries and Alaska highspeed passenger ferries, the largest passengercarrying vessels in the U .S . merchant marine.
ROBERT J. LOWEN
LLOYD M. MARTIN International Secretary-Treasurer
International President
DAVE A. BOYLE
ALLEN C. SCOTT International Executive Vice President
Vice Presiden t, PMR
International Organization of
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