Tugboats are aquatic workhorses, built for power rather than speed, often spraying water while towing ships to celebrate their arrival. Despite their size, tugboats carry an impressive amount of ...

U.S. Coast Guard helicopters rescued seven crew members who were stuck on a tugboat off the coast of Ocean City on Saturday morning when a tow line ensnared its propellers. Crews aboard the Legacy, a ...

The Coast Air Station from Elizabeth City assisted in saving seven people drifting miles offshore of Ocean City on Saturday. A tugboat named Legacy, towing a barge 30 miles offshore Ocean City had ...

Robert (Bob) Hill of Ocean Tug & Barge Engineering Corp., of Milford, MA has specialized in the design of AT/B’s for many years. As probably the world's most experienced designer of large articulated ...

An ocean tugboat named the Nelly Bly commanded by an autonomous system and remote operators is going on a 1,000-mile journey around Demark starting Sept. 30. The voyage was announced today by ...

An ocean tug is set to embark on a 1,000 nautical mile autonomous and remotely commanded journey around Denmark to prove that the world’s waterways are primed and ready for autonomous vessel ...

PORTLAND -- The tugboat Richard Brusco was merrily on its way to San Francisco this weekend, making its way past Newport, when crew members discovered they'd left something important behind: the back ...

Seven people were rescued offshore in Ocean City, Maryland, early Saturday morning. At 3:30 a.m., a crew member on the tug Legacy notified the Maryland-National Capital Region of the Coast Guard that ...

Monty Nelson, first mate of the Primo Brusco tug that sank Monday, had a life-long love affair with the sea, said Mark Nelson two days after searchers pulled his brother's body from the Pacific. "It's ...