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Definition: STEAM TUG |
STEAM TUG1. A steam vessel used in towing or propelling ships. |
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![]() | Figure 5. P. Regnard's combination photometer and photometric recording device. Invented by Paul Regnard in 1888 for measuring the intensity and duration of lig light with increasing depth. It was used by Prince Albert aboard a steam tug off Funchal at depths of 20, 30, and 40 meters. The balloon pressure device was not part of the original instrument but added afterwards. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now. | ![]() | Line engraving published in "Harper's Weekly", July-December 1861 volume, page 725. It gives two views of Flag Officer DuPont's squadron at Hampton Roads, Virginia, prior to leaving on 29 October 1861 to capture Port Royal, South Carolina. Ships and geographical features, as identified below the images, are (upper engraving, from left): ferry boats, store ship, steamer Marion, USS Seminole, steamer Ben Deford, ship Grapeshot, Fort Monroe, USS Narragansett, USS Alabama, USS Pawnee, and new ("90-Day") gunboats (lower engraving, from left): store ship, steamer Vanderbilt, steam tug (foreground), store ship, steamer Winfield Scott, steamer Atlantic, USS Minnesota, steamer Baltic, USS Relief, USS Wabash, USS R.B. Forbes, steamer Oriental, steamer Matanzas, steamer Philadelphia, and the Rip Raps. Credit: NAVY. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-g-m-s-t-t-u" | |
-1 letter: mutates. | |
-2 letters: astute, gamest, gamuts, guttae, mattes, meatus, mutase, mutate, mutest, statue, tamest, teguas. | |
-3 letters: agues, amuse, games, gamut, gates, gaums, getas, geums, guest, gutta, mages, magus, mates, matte, matts, mauts, meats, mutes, mutts, sagum, satem, saute, stage, state, steam, sutta, tames, taste, tates, tauts, teams, teats, tegua, testa, usage. | |
-4 letters: ages, ague, amus. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-g-m-s-t-t-u" | |
+2 letters: glutamates, multistage. | |
+3 letters: guesstimate. | |
+4 letters: guesstimated, guesstimates, magistrature, menstruating, metallurgist, thaumaturges. | |
+5 letters: augmentations, augmentatives, guesstimating, magistratures, metallurgists, multimegatons, restimulating, thaumaturgies. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)53 54 45 41 4D      54 55 47 |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010011 01010100 01000101 01000001 01001101 00100000 01010100 01010101 01000111 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)S T E A M   T U G |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0053 0054 0045 0041 004D      0054 0055 0047 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)53543935472545541 |
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