Tugboat "Captain Ushakov" sank in St. Petersburg

The head of the public relations department of the Baltic Shipyard, Alexander Lebedev, told reporters that the tugboat had tilted the previous evening.

The city's special services and the plant's duty services tried to save the ship, but they were unable to do so.

The fight for the ship continued all night. The workers of the Baltic Shipyard helped their colleagues stop the roll.

The Western Interregional Transport Investigation Department of the Investigative Committee of Russia reported on its Telegram channel that the tug sank during construction work. As a result, the vessel's auxiliary machinery room was flooded.

The tugboat “Captain Ushakov” was launched in 2022 at the Yaroslavl Shipbuilding Plant. It underwent retrofitting in St. Petersburg.

The ship, almost 70 meters long, 15 meters wide, and with a displacement of 3,200 tons, was built according to the new project 23470, launched in 2014.