Matches in DBpedia 2014 for { ?s ?p Thomas Hebert was an ocean-going tugboat that sank in 140 feet (43 m) of water off the New Jersey coast with the loss of five lives at 3am on Sunday 7 March 1993. She had left Virginia for Maine on 5 March 1993, towing a barge carrying 8,500 tons of coal.Built in 1975 in a shipyard in Orange, Texas, the tug measured 94 ft × 27 ft (28.7 m × 8.2 m), displaced 99 tons and carried a crew of 7. She was last owned by S.C. Loveland Co. of Pennsville, New Jersey.The sunken vessel was found intact, still attached by a steel cable to the floating barge that she had been towing. The cable showed traces of metal from the hull of another vessel, suggesting that a submarine snagged the tow cable, pulling the tug under, in an incident similar to that of USS Houston sinking the tugboat Barcona in 1989.. }
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- Thomas_Hebert abstract "Thomas Hebert was an ocean-going tugboat that sank in 140 feet (43 m) of water off the New Jersey coast with the loss of five lives at 3am on Sunday 7 March 1993. She had left Virginia for Maine on 5 March 1993, towing a barge carrying 8,500 tons of coal.Built in 1975 in a shipyard in Orange, Texas, the tug measured 94 ft × 27 ft (28.7 m × 8.2 m), displaced 99 tons and carried a crew of 7. She was last owned by S.C. Loveland Co. of Pennsville, New Jersey.The sunken vessel was found intact, still attached by a steel cable to the floating barge that she had been towing. The cable showed traces of metal from the hull of another vessel, suggesting that a submarine snagged the tow cable, pulling the tug under, in an incident similar to that of USS Houston sinking the tugboat Barcona in 1989.".