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{{Short description|American ocean-going tugboat, sank 1993}}
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|+''Thomas Hebert''
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|Ship owner=S.C. Loveland Co.
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|Ship launched=1975
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|Ship fate=Sunk 7 March 1993
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|Ship displacement=99 tons
|Ship length={{convert|94|ft|abbr=on}}
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The sunken vessel was found intact, still attached to the floating barge which it had been towing by a steel cable. The cable shows 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|SSN-713|6}} sinking the tugboat ''Barcona'' in 1989.<ref>http://njscuba.net/sites/chart_deep_sea.html</ref><ref>http://www.tugboatdown.com/</ref>▼
== History ==
Built in 1975 in a shipyard in [[Orange, Texas]], the tug measured {{convert|94|x|27|ft|m|abbr=on}}, 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 {{convert|140|ft}} 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
Other theories included a faulty steering caused the tug to turn so suddenly and sharply that it took on water at the stern and sank itself. Another theory is that due to a mechanical failure the tug steered itself in a larger circle in the middle of the night and was passed, then pulled backward and under, by the barge it was towing. The latter is not an uncommon accident in the marine towing industry; it is known as tripping. An example of this happened 11 May 2001 when the {{convert|115|ft|m}} tugboat Bay Titan had her barge overtake her and pull her under while turning from the [[Delaware River]] to the entrance of the Chesapeake and Delaware Canal.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.professionalmariner.com/March-2007/Crewmember-drowns-after-barge-trips-tug/ |title=Crewmember drowns after barge trips tug |website=Professional Mariner |accessdate=2018-12-04}}</ref>
==References==
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[[Category:Tugboats of the United States]]
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