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On Sunday, July 13, at 2 p.m., the Wabasha County Historical Society Museum invites the public to an engaging and ...
On April 1, 2015, Santos G. Rivera, of Puerto Rico, a seaman and deckhand on the Specialist at the time, was ordered to place a type of line under a "Spectra line" that was rubbing on the barge ...
Fran Regan stood near a notch in Buffalo Bayou where the water runs wide and deep. He was an 18-year-old high school dropout, and, on this morning in 1980, he waited to clock in as a deckhand at ...
A deckhand at the helm of a towing vessel had fallen asleep before the tow struck a dock near Clatskanie, ... Towboat Deckhand Was Asleep at Helm When Barge Struck Dock. October 8, 2024. Cindy B ...
Towboat Deckhand Was Asleep at Helm When Barge Struck Dock. October 8, 2024. A deckhand at the helm of a towing vessel had fallen asleep before the tow struck a dock near Clatskanie, ...
A tugboat pushing a barge on the Mississippi River in Baton Rouge serves as a backdrop for Lee Hendrix's book, 'Peep Light: Stories of a Mississippi River Boat Captain.' The book recounts his own ...
A tugboat pushing a barge on the Mississippi River in Baton Rouge serves as a backdrop for Lee Hendrix's book, 'Peep Light: Stories of a Mississippi River Boat Captain.' The book recounts his own ...
The Beaumont Enterprise on MSN1y
The little engine that could
When the cargo ship Dali struck the Francis Scott Key Bridge March 26, collapsing lanes into the water below and resulting in the death of six people, tugboats became part of the unfolding news story.
With only 4 inches separating the 98-foot Vicki M. McAllister from the massive ship it tailgated, a local deckhand on the tugboat and the freighter’s crew wordlessly connected the two vessels ...
On Oct. 9, 1972, Lee Hendrix stepped aboard a towboat on the Mississippi River for the first time at age 21. ... Hendrix has worked as a deckhand, first mate, pilot, ...
Captain Hailey McIntyre and deckhand Ocean Rutherford, who've known each other since grade school, made the 12-hour trip from Prince Rupert to Stewart for SAMM Towage.