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The railroad bridge became misaligned due to a hit from barges being transported by a towboat called Mauvilla.
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Lawrence Richard, Fox News, 28 Mar. 2024
Eighteen of those collapses happened in the U.S. These include when barges being pushed by a towboat in dense fog hit and displaced the Big Bayou Canot railroad bridge near Mobile, Alabama.
—NBC News, 27 Mar. 2024
In 1993 a towboat struck a rail bridge in Alabama on a foggy September morning and threw the train tracks out of alignment on the Big Bayou Canot Bridge.
—Thomas Fuller, New York Times, 27 Mar. 2024
The towboat pushing the barge had made a wrong turn on the Mobile River and entered the Big Bayou Canot.
—Emily Deletter, USA TODAY, 26 Mar. 2024
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Lawrence Richard, Fox News, 28 Mar. 2024
Eighteen of those collapses happened in the U.S. These include when barges being pushed by a towboat in dense fog hit and displaced the Big Bayou Canot railroad bridge near Mobile, Alabama.
—NBC News, 27 Mar. 2024
In 1993 a towboat struck a rail bridge in Alabama on a foggy September morning and threw the train tracks out of alignment on the Big Bayou Canot Bridge.
—Thomas Fuller, New York Times, 27 Mar. 2024
The towboat pushing the barge had made a wrong turn on the Mobile River and entered the Big Bayou Canot.
—Emily Deletter, USA TODAY, 26 Mar. 2024
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The tugboat only carried five people in total, and four of the crew members were able to escape. CLICK HERE TO SIGN UP FOR OUR LIFESTYLE NEWSLETTER Only one person was killed, the ship's engineer — and his remains were found not long after.Andrea Margolis, Fox News, 2 Oct. 2024
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Francis then charged the U.S. government heavily inflated prices for services such as security, tugboats, food, water replenishment and trash removal.Alex Riggins, The Mercury News, 6 Nov. 2024
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His friend, David, furiously began digging the pumpkin out, but the pair soon discovered that the beach had been used to moor barges, and there were large industrial cables underneath the ground.Owen Clarke, Outside Online, 30 Oct. 2024
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The new series follows Billie (Janice LeAnn Brown), a strong young wizard— who with the help of Alex— barges in Justin’s mundane life with his two boys, Roman (Alkaio Thiele) and Milo (Max Matenko), and his wife Giada (Mimi Gianopulos).Stephanie Andrade, StyleCaster, 29 Oct. 2024
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Chen’s quiet resilience, alongside Wang’s emotional fervor, perfectly encapsulates the tug of war between parental expectations and adolescent rebellion.Destiny Jackson, Deadline, 22 Nov. 2024
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That's because of the constant tug of gravity between the moon, Earth and sun.John Tufts, The Courier-Journal, 22 Nov. 2024
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Additionally, doors and hatches should have been closed, and the keel should have been lowered to increase stability, among other safety measures, Costantino declared.Michael Dorgan, Fox News, 5 Sep. 2024
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An endangered female basking shark was near the surface of the water off the coast of Ireland in April when the keel of a boat cut across her back.Anthony Robledo, USA TODAY, 26 July 2024
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Typically 60 feet long and 8 feet wide, capable of bearing 40 tons, the keelboat was specially designed for the western rivers.Boyce Upholt, Smithsonian Magazine, 11 June 2024
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In a dominating victory in the three-person Soling keelboat at the 1972 Olympics, Melges unseated the sport’s greatest sailor, Paul Elvstrom, who had won four Olympic Gold medals.Chris Museler, New York Times, 22 May 2023
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For example, when over 1,000 people died in a ferryboat accident in the Red Sea in 2006, critics accused the military of failing to deploy quickly enough to rescue them.Jeff Martini, Foreign Affairs, 1 Sep. 2011
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On another ferryboat is the Constitution and all the state and local officials dedicated to upholding it.Alexandra Petri, Washington Post, 18 June 2024
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“Towboat.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/towboat. Accessed 1 Dec. 2024.
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