Widow calls for probe into tug tragedy

THE heartbroken widow of a crewman who died when a tug boat capsized in the River Clyde has called for a public inquiry to be held inot the accident at sea.

Linda Cameron, whose husband Robert was one of three people who lost their lives in The Flying Phantom disaster, spoke out yesterday after a report by accident investigators revealed the vessel capsized because a towing winch did not release fast enough.

And she threatened to take legal action against the port authority and the tug's owners.

Houston man Robert - who was known to his friends as Captain Bob - was working onboard The Flying Phantom just six days before Christmas last year when it hit a sandbank while towing a freighter up the Clyde, near Erskine, in freezing fog.

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