Steve Pollert came within a hand’s grasp of escaping a watery grave. Six days after the tugboat Bay Titan capsized in the Chesapeake & Delaware Canal, the body of the 45-year-old deckhand is ...

The body of a tugboat deckhand from Dulac who went missing last week in the Gulf of Mexico has been found, family members said Friday.

Family members plan to lead a candlelight ceremony Monday for a Dulac tugboat deckhand who went missing in the Gulf of Mexico near the Louisiana-Texas border. Thomas Phillips, 35, was last seen ...

Tugboat deckhand Thomas Phillips, 35, of Dulac, went missing last week while on a tugboat in the Gulf of Mexico near the Louisiana-Texas border. His body was found Tuesday on a Texas beach.

The bow of a container ships approaches the tugboat Delta Teresa as deckhand Jessica Huber gets ready to exchanges lines with the mega-ship in the Port of Long Beach.

U.S. Coast Guard Petty Officer Chad Rollins, a machinery technician at Station Sabine, was honored this week with the Meritorious Service Medal for rescuing the tugboat captain and deckhand in ...

“I was hired to report for work on Feb. 12, 1963 – at 2 a.m.,” said Hobson, remembering his start as a tugboat deckhand. That first vessel was a 26-foot log storage tending boat.

As a deckhand on a tugboat, being skilled with lines as thick as baseball bats is obligatory, and it is something that is picked up from other seamen.

DILLINGHAM — A Seattle man died Wednesday after he was crushed between two barges in the Naknek River in Southwest Alaska. Spencer Vaughn Brewer, 20, was a deckhand with Naknek Barge Lines.