Thea Foss

American tugboat company founder

Thea Christiansen Foss (8 June 1858 – 7 June 1927) was the founder of Foss Maritime, the largest tugboat company in the western United States. She was the real-life person on which the fictional character "Tugboat Annie" (originally portrayed on film in 1933 by Marie Dressler) may have been very loosely based.²

From Wikipedia’s article on Thea Foss (this version), CC BY-SA 4.0.

Born Jun 8, 1857, died Jun 7, 1927.¹