re: #770 Killian Bundy

Something like half to 3/4 of the towing capacity needed to yank Port Royal off that man-made shoal came from the M/V Dove (the X-Band radar’s motivator). The rest came from seven other military and civilian tugs. They also took off over 600 tons of stuff, including over 100 crew members, all of the fresh water, most of the fuel, and jettisoning the anchors and the anchor chains. It still took them over four hours at high tide.

STUCK
DEEP,
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