Tug of war at the Summer Olympics its time as an Olympic sport, it was considered to be part of the Olympic athletics programme, although the sports of tug of war and athletics are now considered distinct. Teams consisted of 6 members in 1900 (Denmark and Sweden competed together), 5 members in 1904, and 8 members in the last three appearances of the sport. Tug of war at the Summer Olympics Tug of war was contested as a team event in the Summer Olympics at every Olympiad from 1900 to 1920. Originally the competition was entered by groups called clubs. A country could enter more than one
Baltimore (tug) the repair period to replace "Baltimore's" boiler. In her capacity as an official welcoming vessel for the City of Baltimore, "Baltimore" met the German unarmed merchant submarine "Deutschland" on her first voyage to America, prior to the United States' entry into World War I. "Baltimore" and the city quarantine tug "Thomas F. Timmins" patrolled the vicinity of "Deutschland's" berth to ensure American neutrality. In 1956 the Baltimore Harbor Board was dissolved and its assets, including "Baltimore", transferred to the Maryland Port Authority. In 1963 the state sold "Baltimore" to Alexander Luckton, Jr., owner of Baltimore's Poe Bookstore. Luckton proposed to