Tugs & Salvage News
After One Month, New Zealand's Navy Prepares to Defuel Sunken Ship
The New Zealand Defence Force is closing in on an operation to remove the fuel from the lost survey ship Manawanui, whic...
Read More >>Faulty Rigging, High Speed Caused Fatal Tug Girting
The UK's Marine Accident Investigation Branch has released its report on the loss of the tug Biter, which was girted...
Read More >>US Coast Guard Rescues Three Fishermen After Fire in Gulf of Alaska
On Sunday, a U.S. Coast Guard helicopter aircrew rescued three survivors from a fishing vessel after it caught fire in t...
Read More >>Guinness World Record for Power Set by Damen-Built Electric Tug in UAE
Fully electric tugs have quickly emerged from a novelty in the industry and now Damen Shipyards Group and its client SAF...
Read More >>12 Missing After Sinking of Korean Purse Seiner off Jeju Island
Two people are confirmed dead and 12 are missing after the sinking of a fishing vessel off the coast of Jeju Island, in...
Read More >>Ferry Evacuated After Running Aground in the Central Philippines
The Philippines Coast Guard is reporting the safe evacuation of an interisland ferry that ran around on November 11 prov...
Read More >>Container Fire Prompts Maersk Boxship to Divert to Tenerife
The container ship Rhine Maersk was forced to make an emergency port call in the Canary Islands on Sunday after crew members detec...
Read More >>Michigan Distiller Uses Great Lakes Shipwrecks to Create Historic Flavors
A group of distillers and scientists have tapped the holds of a Great Lakes shipwreck in an attempt to revive a 19th-cen...
Read More >>Volunteer Divers Find Wreck of WWI Cruiser HMS Hawke
Volunteer divers have found the wreck of the lost British cruiser HMS Hawke, which went down in World War I with the loss of more...
Read More >>On Veterans Day, U.S. Navy Announces Discovery of Lost WWII Destroyer
Marking Veterans' Day, the U.S. Navy and the Royal Australian Navy have announced the discovery of the WWII destroye...
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