Star Fleet (TUGS)

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The Star Fleet is a fictional tugboat corporation from the 1989 children's television series TUGS, from the original producers of Thomas the Tank Engine and Friends - Robert D. Cardona and David Mitton.

The Star Tugs, are of course the major characters in the series. Located in Bigg City Port, their owner is the formidable Captain Star, who only ever appears as a megaphone poking out of one of the windows. However in one episode the megaphone falls out.

Contents 1 The Star Fleet 1.1 Principal Tugs 1.2 Others 2 Star Dock 3 Tugs' Duties 3.1 Ten Cents 3.2 Big Mac 3.3 OJ 3.4 Top Hat 3.5 Warrior 3.6 Hercules 3.7 Sunshine 3.8 Team Effort

[edit] The Star Fleet

[edit] Principal Tugs

Throughout the course of the series, Captain Star has owned seven tugs:

• Stack No. 1 - Ten Cents
• Stack No. 2 - Big Mac
• Stack No. 3 - OJ
• Stack No. 4 - Top Hat
• Stack No. 5 - Warrior
• Stack No. 6 - Hercules
• Stack No. 7 - Sunshine - Who joins in the pilot episode Sunshine

[edit] Others

• Grampus - Who joins in the penultimate episode 4th of July
• Boomer the Unlucky Tug - Boomer joins the crew very briefly in Jinxed

[edit] Star Dock

The Star Dock is the only location in Bigg City Port, which appears in every episode of the series. The words Star Tug and Marine are painted over the top of the cream coloured building where Captain Star gives his briefing. In every episode, the TUGS are assigned to certain duties - (with the exception of Ghosts). The Z-Stack Dock is right next door to the Star Fleet - and Lucky's Yard is located opposite (facing) them.

[edit] Tugs' Duties

The Star's have many individual or 'whole team' duties that they are responsible for, and the welfare of Bigg City Port is constantly placed upon their shoulders.

[edit] Ten Cents

• Mainly work associated with Sunshine.
• On 'Dredger Duty' with the gossiping Scuttlebutt Pete' (Pirate)
• Collecting Fuel Barges (Munitions)
• Showing Sunshine around Bigg City (in the pilot - when he was new to the place)
• Collecting Boomer from Lucky's Yard
• Taking fuel to Lillie Lightship (usually with Sunshine).

[edit] Big Mac

• Usually anything that requires a certain amount of strength
• Collecting gravel-filled barges from the Stone Yard
• Winning the Steel Contract over the Z-Stacks (with Warrior)
• Partial work up the canal, which leads to disaster (Trapped)
• Working Up River. (With Ten Cents and Sunshine - Up River)
• He mainly works with Warrior

[edit] OJ

• Saving the Fulton Ferry from sinking (Quarantine)
• Looking over the younger tugs, and sharing his experiences to help them
• On Quarantine Duty
• Helping to save Lillie Lightship from sinking

[edit] Top Hat

• Railway related duties with the babbling pair - Frank & Eddie
• Occasional work with Lord Stinker.
• Saving a railway train from almost certain death (High Tide)
• He maily works with Warrior or OJ

[edit] Warrior

• Mainly garbage work with Lord Stinker, and the Municiple Garbage Corporation
• He usually works with Big Mac
• Towing Izzy Gomez into port
• Work requiring strength

[edit] Hercules

• Works mostly with Lillie Lightship
• Guiding the ocean liner Vienna into Bigg City (Bigg Freeze)

[edit] Sunshine

• Mainly work associated with Ten Cents
• Works with Little Ditcher, and occasionally Pearl
• Collecting Boomer from Lucky's Yard (Jinxed)
• Assisting Big Mac with log duties - (Up River)
• Taking fuel to Lillie Lightship (usually with Ten Cents).

[edit] Team Effort

• Guiding ocean liner The Duchess into Port
• Guiding ocean liner Princess Alice into Port
• Assisting in the 4th of July Regatta celebrations
• Guiding ocean liner Vienna into port
• Helping to stop the dockside fire in Munitions
• Quarantine Duties
• Helping to catch the barge smuggler (with Z-Stacks) in Pirate