Icy Rescue Saves Crew Of Foundering Tugboat From: The Washington Post | Date: January 26, 2000| Author: Craig Timberg | Copyright 2000 The Washington Post. This material is published under license from the Washington Post.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Washington Post.Copyright information

Ice slicked the decks. Winds whipped the snow into a horizontal blur. And the sea lifted a drifting tugboat into the air, then crashed it down so hard and so close to a rescue boat that the Coast Guard crew members decided they had no choice but to back off.

The tugboat Bay King, out of Norfolk, was 110 feet long. The motor still revved, but there was no propulsion, leaving the craft adrift at midday yesterday, miles offshore and not far from the Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel at the mou...

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