Thomas Hebert
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| History | |
|---|---|
| Owner: | S.C. Loveland Co. |
| Launched: | 1975 |
| Fate: | Sunk 7 March 1993 |
| General characteristics | |
| Displacement: | 99 tons |
| Length: | 94 ft (29 m) |
| Beam: | 27 ft (8.2 m) |
| Crew: | 7 |
Thomas Hebert was an ocean-going tugboat that sank off the coast of New Jersey on Sunday 7 March 1993.
History
Built in 1975 in a shipyard in Orange, Texas, the tug measured 94 ft × 27 ft (28.7 m × 8.2 m), displaced 99 tons and carried a crew of 7. She was last owned by S.C. Loveland Co. of Pennsville, New Jersey.
Thomas Hebert had left Virginia for Maine on 5 March 1993, towing a barge carrying 8,500 tons of coal. She sank in 140 feet (43 m) of water off the New Jersey coast with the loss of five lives at 3am on Sunday 7 March 1993.
The sunken vessel was found intact, still attached by a steel cable to the floating barge that she had been towing. The cable showed traces of metal from the hull of another vessel, suggesting that a submarine snagged the tow cable, pulling the tug under, in an incident similar to that of USS Houston sinking the tugboat Barcona in 1989.[1][2]
References
- ↑ "Thomas Hebert". Scuba Diving – New Jersey & Long Island New York. Retrieved 2013-07-07.
- ↑ "Tugboat Down – The Controversial Sinking of the Thomas Hebert". Tugboat Down. Retrieved 2013-07-07.