Sentences with word «tugboat»

In my bedroom, I can hear my neighbor's small dog barking, the bleating horn of tugboats on the East River, the wail of ambulance sirens and the constant drone of the freeway a block away.

The 1,047 - foot long, 121 - foot wide vessel crossed the Ems River in about ten hours — an amazing feat, considering the scale of the ship and the geography of the shipyard required the captain to steer the ship backward, assisted by tugboats fore and aft.

Born in Brooklyn, New York in 1937 to a «family of Scottish Presbyterians and Irish Catholics who made their living as tugboat workers in New York harbor,» he died in January 2015 Novels A Hall of Mirrors (1967) Dog Soldiers (1974) A Flag for Sunrise (1981) Children of Light (1986) Outerbridge Reach (1992) Damascus Gate (1998) Bay of Souls (2003) Death of the Black - Haired Girl (2013) A Step Behind (2014) Collections Bear and His Daughter: Stories (1997) Fun with Problems (2010)

However, he also lands right in the middle of a clash between tugboat captain Rita (voice of Kate Winslet) and an amphibious antagonist known as Boss Toad (voice of Ian McKellen).

This brings about a life and death fight between the bewildered tugboat crew and the aliens, as the crew is caught between their greed to collect their salvage booty and their instincts for survival.

While in San Francisco Bay, the crane also lifted an old sunken tugboat from the bay bottom, helping to end an oil spill.

The Floating Hospital (TFH) originally spent nearly 150 years operating on ships pulled around the city on tugboats during a time when floating hospitals were commonly used to transport families away from the smog - filled streets and tenements for a day, but now currently operates out of a clinic out of Long Island City, Queens.

Just off Caracas Bay Beach, a small tugboat sits upright on the sand at a depth of 15 feet.

Trawlers and other commercial fishing boats or tugboats for commercial use have different registration guidelines.

Clean Harbors aided in a mission to inspect a sunken tugboat off the coast of a Maine in late February.

In March, a 90 - foot tugboat sank after it hit a construction barge near the bridge site, killing three crew members.

Make connections to the floating tugboat.

You and your child can join the captain and crew aboard this busy red tugboat.

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The other, from the Rockland County Sheriff's Department says that the spill came from a nearby Tilcon tugboat, that the Sheriff's boat had deployed oil - absorbing booms and that «everything has

We have a proven record of helping injured seamen, fishermen, tugboat workers and maritime employees obtain compensation.

She learned discipline from years as a young boxer in Philly, but here she learns anew what it means to work, to connect, and — in buying and fixing up an old tugboat — how to make a home she knows is her own.

Neither involved a nearly 5 - mile - long underwater segment in the Straits of Mackinac, the channel that connects Lakes Michigan and Huron, which received several dents from a suspected tugboat anchor strike last month and is the subject of public debate over its safety.

VICTORIA — New Democrat leader John Horgan issued the following statement on the grounding of the Nathan E. Stewart and associated fuel spill: «The Nathan E. Stewart tugboat disaster proves that our oil - spill response capacity is woefully inadequate.

Fortescue chief Nev Power vows to compete with BHP for the contestable tugboat business at Port Hedland.

He or she can embark on an adventure in the bathtub with this adorable tugboat.

The helicopter sank shortly after crashing, but the crew of a nearby tugboat lashed the wreckage to the tug.

«How is this environmental justice when tugboats and 500 garbage trucks a day will spew carcinogenic diesel fumes, raising asthma and lung cancer rates for children and New Yorkers?»

The Rockland County sheriffs office said a Tilcon New York quarry tugboat caused the spill and the quarry's environmental team planned to handle the remediation.

On late Wednesday afternoon an RAF patrol identified a force of pro-Gaddafi troops who had been fighting at the Zawiya oil refinery and were attempting to redeploy in a small tugboat along the coast.

«Compared with open - water vessels that spend most of their time at open throttle, tugboats spend up to 80 percent of their time idling,» says John Manison, head of the General Electric Marine and Stationary Power Division.

Hybrid Tug Tugboats may look like something out of another era, but they play an essential role in ocean shipping as they push, pull, and prod large vessels into (and back out of) the tight quarters of a port.

If a cosmic tugboat were to drag Titan into the inner solar system, the sun would quickly boil off the water and just about everything else, leaving Titan as nothing more than a modest rock.

While protections have been beefed up in Prince William Sound, other major American ports still lack extra precautions such as escort tugboats and double engines and rudders on big ships to help steer them to safety when in trouble.

Once the ship has been lifted 12 meters, it will be towed from the bow by two heavy tugboats called the Blizzard and the Resolve Earl, each with a safe working load of 135 metric tons.

His story - telling education continued as service station attendant, pants folder, folk singer, used car salesman, sailor and electronics technician in the U.S. Navy, tugboat deckhand, traveling used tire salesman, carpenter, building contractor, real estate salesman, purveyor of collectible automobiles, magazine editor, newspaper columnist, teacher, lecturer, coffeehouse manager, bookseller, publisher, and, lately, novelist.

Guns fired salutes, crowds along the waterfront cheered, tugboats hooted and Army planes and dirigibles circled overhead.

There's also a great selection of retro - style children's toys, including wind - up tin tugboats and «Dig Your Own Pirate Skeleton» kits.

The third wreck in this area, the Corinthian, is fully intact 60 - foot tugboat resting at a depth of 65 feet on a sandy bottom.

A mystery wreck of an early steam tugboat is now home to schools of rockfish, a pair of wolf eels and a giant octopus.

The artist literally includes the word «Atlantic» in the pool's water and, in turn, the toy tugboat that appears nearby takes on the symbolism of an ocean - faring slave ship.

In this respect, one of the exhibition's most disarming works is by the late Karlo Kacharava (1964 - 1994), still relatively unknown outside his native Georgia, whose English Romanticism (1993) depicts a bohemian - looking couple walking through long grass, while the word «London» and a cartoonish tugboat float mysteriously above them.

Their plan is to use tugboats to haul a large iceberg off Newfoundland to the arid Canary Islands, near the Moroccan coast.

The renewable energy consultancy GL Garrad Hassan notes that working around harsh weather becomes much easier with floating turbines: when conditions are favorable, relatively cheap tugboats can bring a turbine to the project site for quick installation, avoiding the need for specialized installation vessels.

The Duck Boat started sending multiple radio calls to the approaching tugboat as it guided a massive barge across the river.

Maritime Injury: Alaska boating accident lawyer, Elliott T. Dennis, successfully represented an Alaska tugboat crewman who was burned in an engine room fire.

Crew members working aboard tugboats and push boats face an especially high risk of danger each time they step on deck.

The lawsuit was filed against the City of Philadelphia, which owned the barge, tugboat owner K - Sea Transportation.