I en afsides del af Berringshavet opdager et bjergningshold tilfældigt et forladt skib. Fartøjet har været forsvundet siden 1962 og flyder nu rundt uden besætning. Meget mystisk, men sådan et skib er jo penge værd, så de beslutter at slæbe skibet i havn i håb om penge og hæder. Bjerningsforsøget bliver hurtigt hjemsøgt at en række mere eller mindre bizare uheld, der munder ud i at en gruppe bliver fanget inde i det sælsomme skib. Langsomt opstår mistanken om at skibet er hjemsted for en dæmonisk skabning, og redningsholdet fortryder at de ikke blev hjemme.
Mickey is performing routine maintenance on his tugboat (with interference from a pelican) when a call comes on the radio that there's a sinking ship needing assistance. Sadly, Mickey's crew consists of Donald and Goofy, so getting underway to help is not easy. Goofy has to fight a boiler's door to get it stoked with coal (and when he succeeds, he overfills it) and Donald gets tangled up in the machinery. Not to mention that nobody casts off, so they drag half the dock along with them. The overworked boiler soon explodes.
In wartime England, circa 1941, poorly-armed tugs are sent into "U-Boat Alley" to rescue damaged Allied ships. An American named David Ross arrives to captain one of these tugs. He's given a key by a fellow tugboat-man -- a key to an apartment and its pretty female resident. Should something happen to the friend, Ross can use the key.
Waterfront couple raise their son to be a sea captain. He grows up to be rather snotty and rebels against drunken Beery. Valiant Dressler keeps things moving even as hubby ruins their tugboat business.
A tugboat captain serves under his rival as a U-boat chaser in World War I.
Two rival tugboat captains compete for local business.
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This tale of two tugboats focuses upon the rivalries between two operators competing to win a major shipping contract. Meanwhile a tugboat office secretary and an ex-con who wants to go straight, fall in love. Tugboat Annie is put in charge of a child violinist. When a waterfront fire breaks out, the two warring captains join forces to put it out.
A young man with a checkered past struggles to make good as a fireman.