An ocean going tug, on the run from Coos Bay, Ore ., to Honolulu, had to help.
2.
On 4 July 1944 the " Minotaure " an ocean going tug sailing from Alderney to St Malo with about 500 OT workers was hit three times by torpedoes but somehow managed to stay afloat, some 250 died with the ship being towed into St Malo.