Interviewer(s): J. P. Theriot. Houston, TX

Affiliation: University of Houston/History International

Craig King was born and raised on the Texas City Ship Channel, where his father worked as a welder at a refinery. He graduated from the Texas A&M Merchant Marine Academy in Galveston in 2000 and went to work in the industry. He has traveled to most of the ports in the US and worked on a dredge boat in the Chesapeake Bay before coming back to Houston to work for G&H Towing Company. In 2003, he was assigned to work as a First Mate on the Harbor Tug "Shannon," one of only 2 tugs working on the Houston Ship Channel that are equipped with new "Z-Drive" technology for assisting large tankers and LNG ships into port.