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'''''Thomas Hebert''''' was an ocean-going tugboat which sank in 140 ft of water off the [[New Jersey]] coast with the loss of five lives at 3AM on Sunday 7 March 1993. Built in 1975 in a shipyard in [[Orange, Texas]], the tug measured 94 x 27 ft, displaced 99 tons and carried a crew of 7. It was last owned by S.C. Loveland Co. of [[Pennsville, New Jersey]].
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)]] sinking the tugboat ''Barcona'' in 1989.
The ''Thomas Hebert'' had left Virginia for Maine on 5 March 1993, towing a barge carrying 8 500 tons of coal. <ref>http://njscuba.net/sites/chart_deep_sea.html</ref><ref>http://www.tugboatdown.com/</ref>
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