Barge Strikes Ledge After Tug Cuts Turn

摘要

An oil barge struck bottom and was holed in Long Island Sound because the mate steering the tug pushing it cut a turn too close to a reef marked by a lighthouse, the U.S. Coast Guard said.rnThere was no oil pollution because only the outer hull of the double-hull barge was breached in the Jan. 22 incident. The barge was carrying 140,000 barrels of home heating oil.rnThe tug Meredith C. Rein-auer, owned by Reinauer Transportation of Staten Island, N.Y., was pushing a company barge from Bayonne, N.J., to Revere, Mass., when the barge hit bottom more than 100 yards north of Stepping Stones Lighthouse at 1408, said Lt. Marie Castillo-Bletso, the Coast Guard accident investigator.