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Tanker Runs Aground Near Philadelphia

 

By Herald Staff

PHILADELPHIA — The Tuchkov Bridge, a 600-foot Liberian flagged tanker, is anchored. in the Chesapeake and Delaware Canal near Reedy Point Tuesday, Sept. 30, after it ran aground with 21 people aboard Monday, Sept. 29, 2008, near the St. George Bridge 30 miles south of Philadelphia.
Members of the Coast Guard, Delaware Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control and the New Jersey State Police responded to the grounding.

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