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{{Short description|American ocean-going tugboat, sank 1993}}
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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 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|SSN-713|6}} sinking the tugboat ''Barcona'' in 1989.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://njscuba.net/sites/chart_deep_sea.html#Hebert |title=Thomas Hebert |website=Scuba Diving – New Jersey & Long Island New York |accessdate=2013-07-07}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.tugboatdown.com/ |title=Tugboat Down – The Controversial Sinking of the Thomas Hebert |website=Tugboat Down |accessdate=2013-07-07}}</ref>
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
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