1942 wooden tugboat destroyed in early morning fire

Oct. 31, 2015 12:36 PM PT

The William B, a 76-foot wooden tugboat built in 1942, was destroyed in a fire at 2:33 a.m. Saturday in Newport Beach Harbor, according to the Orange County Sheriff’s Department.

A brief video posted on Twitter by the Sheriff’s Department showed the tugboat partially sunken and listing to one side.

Ann Haley

Ann Haley was the online editor for Times Community News. She previously was the home page editor for the Orange County Register, where she had held numerous other editing positions since 1981. Ann also has reported or edited for the Reno Gazette-Journal, Las Vegas Sun and Riverside Press-Enterprise. She is a graduate of UC Santa Barbara. She left Times Community News in 2018.