Because of the war, not the Dutch, who had a virtual monopoly before the war, nor the British, but a U.S. based company received a tugboat job from the Netherlands government.

Most everyone knows one fact about tugboats: a good tugboat man can hurl a torrid phrase across the water hard enough to make it bounce. But few know another important fact: that the Dutch had a virtual monopoly before the war on deep-sea towing.

Last week, Edmond Joseph Moran, a…