Come aboard for a virtual tour of the U.S.’s only surviving steam-powered ocean tugboat Hercules, officials with the San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park urged this week.

The 1907 tug can be explored in a way not possible in person. Steep ladders prevent visitors from accessing some areas, but the new virtual tour allows guests to see the whole ship including the pilot house, the crew’s quarters, and engineering.

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Keith Burbank is currently a fulltime reporter covering Alameda County and Oakland news for Bay City News. He has also worked on the Data Points project for Local News Matters, finding trends and stories about the region through data. In 2019, he was a California Fellow at the USC Annenberg Center for Health Journalism, producing a series about homeless deaths in Santa Clara County. He worked as a swing shift editor for the newswire for several years as well. Outside of journalism, Keith enjoys computer programming, math, economics and music.