Typically, the small but mighty tugs will help a watercraft when it gets into a spot of bother in the likes of a narrow canal ...

Captain Mike Vinik is commanding the SSUS along the eastern seaboard from a single tugboat, the Vinik 6. “Instead of going south like we were trying to pull it, the ship wanted to go east ...

David Jurs, the first tugboat captain to respond to the Francis Scott Key Bridge collapse nearly a year ago, talks about the ...

A tragic maritime incident unfolded in the southern Philippine waters on Tuesday morning, leaving two individuals lifeless.

Why, then, do these streams of water sometimes shoot from a tugboat when there's no fire nearby, such as when tugging a larger ship? The answer has more to do with tradition. Tugboats don't spray ...

Two people were killed after a Philippine-flagged tugboat hit a Panamanian-flagged vessel off Sarangani province in the ...

I’m very impressed. It’s rusty, but it’s cool.” Captain Mike Vinik commanded the tugboat pulling the ship from Philadelphia to Mobile. He said the mission was a success. “The pilots were ...

The tug and ship are 5 days into the journey to Mobile ... Captain Mike Vinik, owner of “Vinik no. 6”, the tugboat that’s towing the SS United States. Vinik says The SS United States ...

TUGBOATS play an essential role at sea and can be recognised by their distinctive water spraying.  They are designed to help larger ships in navigating harbours and rivers and are equipped ...