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Tugboat tragedy crewman named

Police named the crewman who died last week when a tugboat sank on the River Thames in London. He was Darren Lacey, 40, from Gravesend in Kent, who was on the tug Chieftain when it went down off Greenwich Pier last Friday. Two other crewmen on the tug, which was towing a barge, were rescued. […]

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‘Heartbreak’ of ferry teenager’s family

The father of a teenage Thames Boatman who died when he was struck by a propeller after falling in to the water has “lost his best friend”, friends said today. Ben Woollacott, 19, son of Cruise London Boss Stephen Woollacott is understood to have been holding the mooring rope of the Ernest Bevin boat when […]

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Boat driver did not see killed girl

The driver of a boat which ran over and killed an 11-year-old girl he had been towing was not aware she had fallen into the water, a marine accident report said. He did not see her as he continued on a tight circular route, the report from the Marine Accident Investigation Branch (MAIB) said. The […]