Fire at the Newport Beach Harbor Saturday demolished a 76-foot wooden tugboat that was built in 1942.
Firefighters dispatched at 2:33 a.m. to the harbor had the fire out on board the “William B” at approximately 7:45 a.m., said Lt. Jeff Hallock of the Orange County Sheriff’s Department. The tugboat was moored near the Newport Harbor Yacht Club.
No injuries were reported and the cause of the fire was unknown, Hallock said.
—City News Service