Tug Benjamin Bailey Rolls on Piscataqua River, Two Escape

On Wednesday afternoon, the tug Benjamin Bailey rolled and suddenly capsized in the currents of the Piscataqua River. Fortunately the two crew men aboard managed to escape from the sudden capsize. The tug is owned by Ken Anderson of Riverside & Pickering Marine Contractors, based in Eliot, Maine and was working on the construction of the new Memorial Bridge connecting Portsmouth, N.H., to Kittery, Maine. There will be an attempt to raise the tug from the river on Friday. This is the second tugboat to sink this year in this section of the river. Both boats were working on the Memorial Bridge project.

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