An abandoned concrete barge has been sitting off the coast of DuPont for more than 60 years. If you time it right, at low tide you can follow a long sandbar littered with barnacled logs and metal ...

LA PUSH, Wash. — The U.S. Coast Guard is working on a plan to tow in a loose barge after rescuing five people who were on board when it lost steering off the Washington coast Friday. The Luther, a 130 ...

Concrete doesn’t sound like the best material for the hull of a barge. The mixture of crushed rock and cement is heavier than wood, especially when molded around a steel mesh skeleton. Concrete is ...

LA PUSH — Five people were rescued from a 130-foot commercial tug after it lost steering off the coast of La Push. At about 4:10 p.m. Friday afternoon, personnel onboard the tug Luther notified the ...

Of all the freak engineering feats with which the U.S. tried to bridge the Atlantic in World War I, none was more freakish than the concrete ship. Of these “floating stones” the U.S. built 43. Last ...

ST. JOHN — St. John builders met with a representative of Heavy Materials, the territory’s concrete company, Monday morning to speak of frustrations getting deliveries of concrete to the island.