Harbor Pilots and Towboat Men is an episode of the TV program “Discovery ’70”. This program aired on ABC from 1962 until 1971 (with each year denoted by Discovery XX with XX as the year) and was an award-winning children’s program about the history and culture of America. This episode covers the daily tasks of docking ships in Port Everglades, Florida, depicting the work and life of boat pilots and tugboat captains. The episode features the SS Michelangelo. The film is a Jules Power production in association with ABC News, hosted by Bill Owen and Virginia Gibson, written by Joseph Hurley, photographed by Richard Francis, edited by Herb Aust, and produced in consultation with the National Educational Association in cooperation with the American Library Association. Port Everglades is a seaport in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, located in Broward County. Port Everglades is one of South Florida’s foremost economic engines, as it is the gateway for both international trade and cruise vacations. SS Michelangelo was an Italian ocean liner built in 1965 for Italian Line by Ansaldo Shipyards, Genoa. She was one of the last ships to be built primarily for liner service across the North Atlantic. Her sister ship was the SS Raffaello.

A large passenger liner SS Michelangelo (00:09). A tugboat captain (00:20). “Harbor Pilots and Towboat Men” title banner (00:42). Discovery 70’ intro-segment (34). A large ship (01:00). Hosts Virginia Gibson and Bill Owen introduce the episode at Port Everglades in Florida, aboard the tugboat Everglades (01:19). Two men in the harbormasters’ office speaking on the phone, communicating with captains (02:07). “1833 Pilot House” building (03:03). A man working as an alternation pilot boards a boat (03:08). The second alternation pilot onboard loosens ropes untying the boat from the harbor (03:24). The pilot boat starts sailing (03:39). A large ship arriving into Port Everglades (03:52). Harbor pilots sailing through the harbor (04:12). Views of the harbormaster’s office (04:37). A tug captain receives a phone call and is assigned to assists the pilot boat in docking the large ship (04:46). The captain, his two deckhands, and a man in the engine room prepare the boat and they start sailing (05:16). Views of the harbormaster’s office (05:46). Views of the pilot boats sailing towards the dredging channel (06:03). Views of the tugboat sailing (06:41). Footage of the pilot caption (06:58). The pilot boat reaches the large ship (07:23). The pilot captain boards the large ship and enters the bridge where he helps the ship’s captain to sail the ship into the harbor (07:51). Two tugboats sail along each side of the ship (08:34). Views of the ship’s passengers (09:17). The pilot communicates instructions to the tugboat (09:24) and the tugboat captain confirms the instructions by pulling different kinds of blasts on the tug whistle (09:27). Views of the tugboats towing the large ship (09:40). The harbor master driving in a pick-up truck around Port Everglades (10:34). He exits the car and places a radio in front of him (10:39). Ship passengers watch the docking operation (10:52). The tugboats and the large ship SS Michelangelo (11:00). Virginia Gibson talks about the docking of the SS Michelangelo(11:18). Virginia Gibson and Bill Owen walking around Port Everglades and speaking about the arrival of a liner cargo ship and other smaller ships (11:54). Views of cruise ships, en route for the Caribbean, temporarily docked in Port Everglades (12:31). Three men working with rope (12:41). Passengers disembark on of the cruise ships (12:58). Views of the harbor (13:07). Views of the industrial machine of the harbor including cranes (13:16). Birds-eye-views of the harbor and its facilities (13:35). A USS Trumpetfish (SS-425) U.S. Navy sub USS Trumpetfish (SS-425), a Balao-class submarine (14:10). A rainbow over the harbor (15:02). The ‘RMS Queen Elizabeth’ ocean liner (15:16). Gibson and Owen speak about the ‘Queen Elizabeth’ ocean liner (16:04). Gibson speaks about a tugboat captain who lives on a houseboat (16:30). Views of captain Hope, his family, and their houseboat (16:56). Captain Hope and his son sailing a tugboat in the port (18:05). One of the pilot captains is cleaning his pool at his house on land (19:25). A bulk carrier Jayme Maia in Port Everglades (20:00). A tugboat pushing the SS Michelangelo (20:24). Gibson and Owen conclude the episode (21:09). Credits (21:41).

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