The following is a list of tugboats operated by the Oswego River Towing Line Inc. during the company's sixty-two year business starting in the year 1935.
- "Ariel" A wooden hull, steam engine tug.
- "Joseph F. Coyne" A wooden hull, steam engine tug.
- "Thomas R. Coyne" A wooden hull, diesel engine tug.
- "Coyne Sisters" A wooden hull, diesel engine tug.
- "Theresa M. Coyne" A steel hull, diesel engine tug.
- "Frank L. Coyne" A steel hull, diesel engine tug.
- "Chancellor" A steel hull, diesel engine tug.
- "Patrick J. McHugh" A steel hull, diesel engine tug.
Of the above listed tugboats, only the "Chancellor" remains as a floating vessel in good operating shape. The "Patrick" has been re-employed by the state of New Jersey as an artificial reef for a marine life sanctuary. Scuba divers can get the location coordinates of the "Patrick" (renamed the "McGurr") at the web site: www.njscuba.net/dive_sites (there is an under bar character between dive and sites) The "Chancellor" is now part of a marine workboat museum at Kingston, New York on the Hudson River. The museum web site is: www.tugmuseum.com. The "Patrick" and the sister tugs operated by the O. R. T. L. Inc. company are well documented in the book "Low Bridges and High Water" by Charles T. O'Malley. This fine book illuminates the Erie Canal towboat companies and the unique working life of the crews. On page 154 is a year 1951 photograph of the "Edward Matton", as the "Patrick" was then named. This web site administrator fondly remembers working as a deck hand on the tug "Coyne Sisters" during the 1958-towing season. Inquiries on the history of the O. R. T. L. INC. Company may be requested by e-mail to: tugbrass1@tugboatbrass.com. Canal tugboats have almost completely disappeared from the waterways of the Erie Canal at this time. Their function has been taken over by pipelines and railroads. Even the Saint Lawrence Seaway contributed to the demise of the Erie Canal as a shipping route. Only a few books and photographs will remain to tell the story of the canal that built New York State, and to a great measure, New York City.