A tugboat improbably sits high on the bank, obscured by tall grass, a broken oil rig hangs over the water nearby.
After airstrikes began, Libyan armed men seized an Italian tugboat in Tripoli used to service the coastal oil platforms.
The liner began to slacken her speed, and the tugboat soon was alongside.
Leaving disaster aboard the Minnesota, we turned and sunk the tugboat Dragon.
Back of them, 105 perhaps a little more than a half mile, the tugboat was following doggedly in their wake.
Back of them, coming nearer at every turn of her propeller, raced the tugboat.
I did not give up the venture there, however, but directed the captain of the tugboat to make directly for the island.
