drill ship that was adrift in the Gulf of Alaska. Shell spokesman Curtis Smith says weather conditions improved and the first tow line was attached to the ship at 12:45 a.m. Monday. The second ...

All 18 crew members on the Kulluk were safely evacuated from the drill ship. Before it was attached to the towlines, the ship had been drifting toward the Trinity Islands. Helicopter crews tried ...

Using state of the art towing winches, towlines are winched in and out automatically by using a pre‐set line force to prevent both dynamic overloads and slack wires. Synthetic towlines can ...

All 18 crew members on the Kulluk were safely evacuated from the drill ship. Before it was attached to the towlines, the ship had been drifting toward the Trinity Islands. Helicopter crews tried ...

The Coast Guard members removed people from the ship after towlines broke during initial attempts to free the ship and get it back into the water. All of the passengers arrived safely at the Coast ...

For escort work there is a winch on the foredeck with a 45-tonne pull/250-tonne brake load equipped with synthetic rope towlines. A strongly fendered reinforced bow allows the vessel to push disabled ...

AS the winter weather worsened, two barges were shipwrecked off the Cape coast. NSRI spokesman Craig Lambinon said the barge the Margaret broke away from her tow tug at Jacobsbaai, north of ...