RE: Tugs...

G'day,

> The USN has several of these ships in the civilian support side for 
> moving yard craft, large landing craft, and other small combatants to 
> far flung deployments where the smaller stuff would have a hard time 
> deploying to due to endurance or low open sea capability.

There's also the naval equivalent of the tow-truck for when ships are
damaged (the Cole) or they run into the only rock between Aussie
territory
and the Galapagos!!!!! When the UK navy manages tricks like that it
makes us
Aussies feel a bit better ;)

Beth