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07/03/1993 Tugboat Thomas Herbert sinks

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Documentary of What happened to the Thomas Hebert

Thomas Hebert had left Virginia for Maine, towing a barge carrying 8,500 tons of coal. She sank in 140 feet of water off the New Jersey coast with the loss of five lives. The sunken vessel was found intact, still attached by a steel cable to the floating barge that she had been towing.