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The Coast Guard said Tuesday that the captain of a tugboat that partially capsized in February when it struck the Memorial Bridge wasn't familiar with the river.
The tugboat that disappeared after sinking in the Willamette River earlier this month has been found.The boat sank Dec. 13 while helping a barge near the Inters ...
The daughter of one of the three crewmen who drowned in a tugboat crash on the Hudson River near the new Tappan Zee Bridge construction site is returning to work as a tugboat captain as she honors ...
“They’re coveted,” said Steve Furlough, who heads the Virginia Maritime Association’s tug and barge committee, of the work boat jobs in the area.
Water churns behind The Lauren as Pilot Russ Vroman maneuvers the tugboat and a barge attached to it in the backwaters of the Mississippi River south of Buffalo, Iowa.
Firefighters pulled Paul Amon, 52, of Bayville, from the Hudson River shortly after the tug he was working on crashed into a barge and sank, but he was pronounced dead, Westchester County ...
One tugboat crew member was killed and two more presumed dead Saturday after their doomed craft slammed into a construction barge beneath the Tappan Zee Bridge. The crippled 84-foot Specialist sunk… ...
KINGSTON — Emergency responders on Tuesday rescued a 400-pound man who fell down a flight of stairs on a tugboat and dislocated his kneecap. The tugboat was pushing a fuel barge along the Hud… ...
But he said “the Hill Carter and the tug Active, they fill a nice little niche. They’re perfect boats to do a job like that.” Originally Published: July 27, 2013 at 12:00 a.m.
The tugboat and the barge are all that remains of the North River Tugboat Museum, a six-boat flotilla out of Kingston, once owned by partners Steve Trueman and Jack Schatzel.