Thea Foss
Founder of Foss Maritime
Thea Christiansen Foss was the founder of Foss Maritime, the largest tugboat company in the western United States. She was the real-life person on which the fictional character "Tugboat Annie" may have been very loosely based. Wikipedia
Born: June 8, 1857, Eidsberg Municipality, Norway
Died: June 7, 1927 (age 69 years), Tacoma, WA
Nationality: American
Thea Christiansen Foss (8 June 1858 – 7 June 1927) was the founder of Foss Maritime, the largest tugboat company in the western United States.
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May 4, 2020 · The M/V Thea Foss, a 90-year-old, 120-foot steel-hulled power yacht originally built for actor John Barrymore. Foss Maritime purchased the yacht ...
Dec 15, 2021 · Sure enough, Foss Maritime was started by a woman named Thea Foss in 1889 on an inlet in Commencement Bay in Tacoma, WA. Thea and her husband ...
Apr 17, 2020 · Thea is considered the personality behind “Tugboat Annie”, the 1933 movie by the same name, starring Marie Dressler and Wallace Berry. So Henry ...
Jan 16, 2019 · A rowboat rental service founded in Tacoma by Thea Foss in 1889 and developed by her husband and relatives over the next hundred years became ...
The keel was laid on 15 September 1929, launched on 16 January 1930 and named in honour of the couple's expected first child, Dee Dee Barrymore. The motor yacht ...
Feb 1, 2021 · Thea Foss, a Norwegian immigrant and strong-minded business woman, built up one of the largest tugboat companies in the US from her home in ...
Through her life and work, Thea Foss became a pioneer archetype for women in the first half of the twentieth century.
Jul 5, 2018 · Built in 2017, Nicole Foss, an Arctic class tug, 123 feet long, 295 gross tons. So, who was Thea Foss and what does she have to do with huge ...