As a 574-foot, Korean-flagged car carrier glided through the Chesapeake Bay at 7 mph on a recent afternoon, a welcoming committee came in the form of two Baltimore-based tugboats. The tugs matched the ship’s speed, one latching itself to the freighter’s port side and the other coming up to the stern. With only 4 inches […]
Ukrainian special forces on Thursday used naval drones to hunt down a Russian tugboat near Crimea. Kyiv in recent weeks has been forced to go after smaller Russian vessels in the Black Sea. Moscow has pulled back its larger warships to reduce their vulnerability to attacks. Ukraine is using its arsenal of exploding naval drones […]
With the 95,000-ton cargo ship Dali powerless and hurtling helplessly toward the Francis Scott Key Bridge, the harbor pilot commanding the vessel had just minutes to make his last, desperate attempts to avoid disaster. He declared distress, dropped anchor and, notably, called for help from nearby tugboats. Two 5,000-horsepower tugs, which only minutes earlier had […]