Corps plans to raise sunken tug in St. Marys River

Associated Press Comments Sault Ste. Marie — The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers says it plans to salvage one of its tug boats that sank while being towed in the upper St. Marys River. No one was aboard the Hammond Bay, which went down in the waterway between Michigan’s Upper Peninsula and Canada. Another tug was towing the Hammond Bay and three barges from Duluth, Minn., to Sault Ste. Marie at the time. Army Corps spokeswoman Lynn Rose says crews plan to determine if the boat can be raised Wednesday. She says there’s no visible damage to the Hammond Bay and officials will investigate why it went down. The Coast Guard was notified of the sinking early Monday. The boat is in about 37 feet of...