Owner S.C. Loveland Co. Beam 27 ft (8.2 m) Launched 1975 Weight 100.6 tons | Fate Sunk 7 March 1993 Crew 7 Length 29 m Displacement 89,810 kg | |
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Documentary of what happened to the thomas hebert
Thomas Hebert was an ocean-going tugboat that sank off the coast of New Jersey on Sunday 7 March 1993.
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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 Herbert 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.