Word: tugboater
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...sunrise one morning two weeks ago, Captain Kenneth Redden and his nine-man crew maneuvered the tugboat Susan McBride and her 15 barges, heading north to take on coal, into a mooring along the Mississippi River near Alton, Ill. For the next three days, Redden and his men watched TV and played cards, while waiting to get the vessels through the antiquated locks that are known as the Turnstyle of the Upper Mississippi...
...could just walk in on Sears with a problem. He rarely smiled and when he did, it was always manipulating. We were all amazed at the Christmas party when Sears came in and started talking socially with us. We always felt he was the cruiser and we were the tugboat...
...flood of seaborne refugees trying to escape from Viet Nam. A few weeks ago, one group was attacked seven times by pirates, who took even food and water before the Vietnamese landed in Thailand. Several other boatloads were so desperate for safety that they forcibly boarded an oil-rig tugboat about 170 miles east of Malaysia. Still another 42 Vietnamese scuttled their craft just off the Malaysian shore, swimming the remaining distance so that authorities could not tow them back...
...nautical trespassing began on June 27, when a Soviet tugboat and three smaller vessels anchored off the Nordkyn Peninsula in the Barents Sea. The Soviet captains claimed to be seeking shelter from bad weather. The often stormy northern seas were calm at the time. The boats left after a Norwegian gunboat was dispatched to escort them out of the area...
Finally, passengers began to chant, "We want to get off! Give us rooms, or let us off!" The America reversed course and arrived back at New York fewer than twelve hours after embarking. More than 250 vacationers jumped ship and were ferried by tugboat to Staten Island, where many were stranded for the rest of the night, cheered only by Lansburgh's promise of a full refund...