A squarish blob meant a ferryboat; a small oval, a tug. Moored ships showed their anchor chains. Snaking her heavy barges through all these obstacles, the Transfer 21 made Jersey without trouble ...

On large ships, anchors can weigh several tons, and the chains attached to them ... accidentally deployed its huge anchor on this poor, tiny tugboat. The anchor stopped, of course, but not ...

Before the invention of anchor chain ships used hemp rope, which often broke and put lives in danger.As the size of ships increased hemp rope anchor cables were not strong enough, and in hot ...

The Coast Guard and National Transportation Safety Board investigated. The state attorney general said a tugboat anchor was the cause. Crews capped and sealed the leaking the cables in late April.

Lint used the tugboat anchor to stop, but the “American Challenger continued adrift and grounded on a rocky shoreline south of Estero de San Antonio.” The U.S. Coast Guard “ultimately ...

Gov. Rick Snyder in May approved an emergency rule barring anchors in the waterway, after a tugboat anchor struck oil and electrical lines and caused an insulation spill. The rule is in place for ...

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The company that operates twin oil pipelines in the Straits of Mackinac says one of the lines suspected of being struck by a tugboat anchor was dented more than three-fourths of an inch.

Lint used the tugboat anchor to stop, but the "American Challenger continued adrift and grounded on a rocky shoreline south of Estero de San Antonio." The U.S. Coast Guard "ultimately recovered ...

Gov. Rick Snyder in May approved an emergency rule barring anchors in the waterway, after a tugboat anchor struck oil and electrical lines and caused an insulation spill. The rule is in place for ...