Ever Forward Floating Again in Chesapeake
More than 35 days after it ran aground outside a shipping channel in the Chesapeake, the 1,095-foot container ship Ever Forward is free – floating on its own bottom once again. The ship was freed by five tugs and two pulling barges, jockeying the huge vessel backward and side to side until it refloated Sunday morning on a high tide and full moon. The ship ran aground outside the Craighill Channel after it left Baltimore, heading for Norfolk, Virginia. It draws 42 feet and it was stuck in 24 feet of water. After the ship floated again, tugs pulled it…