The Coast Guard has recommended manslaughter charges against the operators of the tugboat that crashed into a Miami Yacht ...

The Coast Guard’s Rules of Navigation, which dictate maritime law, stipulate who has the right of way in the waterways and set forth conditions for lookouts on vessels.

The U.S. Coast Guard has confirmed that the captain of the tugboat involved in Monday’s deadly collision, which claimed the lives of two young girls attending a sailing camp, was tested for alcohol, ...

A tugboat captain involved in an oil spill off the Marin County coast is liable for the government’s $14 million cleanup, a federal judge ruled. The boat operator, Christian Lint, died from other ...

MOBILE, Ala. (WALA) - The captain of the tugboat pulling the SS United States to Mobile encountered strong winds and high waves off the coast of Virginia Beach. Captain Mike Vinik is commanding the ...

The tugboat pushing a barge that slammed into a sailboat carrying summer campers in Biscayne Bay - killing two girls and seriously injuring two others - may not have been operated by a licensed ...

The loss of the Fitzgerald left people stunned. The tragedy spurred new safety measures and change among shipping companies, ...

U.S. Coast Guard Petty Officer Chad Rollins, a machinery technician at Station Sabine, was honored this week with the Meritorious Service Medal for rescuing the tugboat captain and deckhand in March.

A tugboat captain's error caused an articulated tug and barge (ATB) to strike and damage the fending system protecting the Hylebos Bridge in Tacoma, Wash., last ...

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The Coast Guard says a tugboat captain is dead after the arm of a crane struck a bridge and fell back onto the tug’s pilothouse. Orleans Parish Coroner’s spokesman Brian ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (Reuters) - A safety-escort tug that ran aground two years ago on Prince William Sound's Bligh Reef, site of the Exxon Valdez disaster, went astray because of an inattentive captain ...