Seattle shipbuilder Snow & Company on Tuesday launched a new pilot boat it is building for the San Francisco Bar Pilots.The 67-foot-long, all-aluminum vessel Golden Gate was designed by U.K. firm ...

Before the cargo ship Dali crashed into the Francis Scott Key Bridge on Tuesday, crew members sent out a mayday signal, allowing first responders on the ground to block traffic from the bridge.

ASTORIA, Ore. — After a runaway cargo ship caused the collapse of Baltimore's Francis Scott Key Bridge last week, killing six people, there's understandably been some concerns about shipping and ...

The Columbia River bar pilots are also one of the few pilot groups to use a helicopter, an Italian-made Agusta dubbed the Seahawk that can fly sideways at 45 knots, the better to maneuver onto ships ...

Founded in 1850, San Francisco Bar Pilots is one of the Bay Area's oldest businesses, trailing Boudin Bakery by one year. As the Gold Rush kicked off, Boudin supplied the flood of incoming miners with ...

PORTLAND, Ore. — After the Francis Scott Key bridge collapsed in Baltimore after being hit by a cargo ship early Tuesday morning, Columbia River Pilots are looking at their own safety measures.

In December of 1994, the Columbia River Bar Pilots Association welcomed its first woman Bar pilot. Capt. Deborah Dempsey was “one of a dozen or so women in the United States with the highest mariner’s ...