PLYMOUTH – Among the towering charter boats, professional fishing boats and even a 1600s-era replica of the Mayflower in Plymouth Harbor, chugs along a small, toy-like vessel named Toot Toot that has ...

In 1939, Hardie Gramatky saw a little tugboat in New York's East River that was struggling to move. The tugboat proved an inspiration for Gramatky, an artist who was also an illustrator for Walt ...

Echoes of Hardie Gramatky’s 1939 Little Toot can be seen in the pages of this tugboat tale by Savage (Where’s Walrus?). But while Gramatky’s tale chronicled a feckless junior tugboat’s relationships ...

Little Toot is a baby tugboat who would rather play than help his father in New York harbor. When he does finally decide to help, he accidentally causes a major crash and is banished beyond the 12 ...