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 ...
To have that much pomp and circumstance for the ship was really majestic.” Mike Vinik is the captain of the tugboat pulling the ship to Mobile. She was built in 1950 and throughout her career ...
In the Central Mamuju district of Indonesia’s West Sulawesi, where the Budong-Budong River meets the sea, people have long feared crocodiles ...
From there, the ship will undergo preparations to be turned into the world's largest artificial reef off the Gulf Coast in Florida. On Friday, tugboats towed the SS United States from Pier 82 to ...
The unsupported bow and stern tug down on the middle of the ship “like snapping a twig in the middle by pulling on both ends,” writes James Heinz, the society’s acquisitions director ...
The ship's departure was again announced last week, but canceled after the Coast Guard requested more information on the tugboats set to pull the ship to Alabama. With the Coast Guard request ...
Letter writers address DOGE attack on Naval Shipyard, cuts to Medicare and Social Security, Kittery's core educational ...
You can track the journey to Alabama here. Tugboats are being used to pull the SS United States because the long-retired ship's engines no longer work. It is expected to take more than a year to ...
An aerial view shows a container ship being guided to its berth by tugboats at Qingdao port ... carriers will be forced to pull services from some smaller US ports as it wouldn’t be worth ...