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Doug Stewart

Digital Project Manager & Art Director

Doug Stewart is a Digital Project Manager & Art Director for WorkBoat. With over 10+ years of commercial marine industry knowledge. He lives in Portland, Maine.

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A steel monument in Rockland, Maine, honors the 33 crew of El Faro, lost to Hurricane Joaquin in 2015. Five were Maine Maritime Academy graduates: Capt. Michael Davidson, Michael Holland, Dylan Meklin, Danielle Randolph, and Mitch Kuflik. Photo by Robin Coles.

El Faro remembered, a decade after tragic sinking

A Coast Guard aircrew hoists a crewmember from the National Geographic Venture 15 miles off Coos Bay, Ore., on April 20, 2025. U.S. Coast Guard video by Petty Officer 2nd Class Briana Carter.

Video: Coast Guard airlifts crewmember from National Geographic Venture offshore

Video: Dakota Creek Industries celebrates 50 years

Podcast: Between the Levees S2SR - Leighton Loveless

Cellula Robotics, USA Inc. photo.

Metron, Cellula Robotics USA partner to enhance UUV capabilities

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The 78'×34'×11' Kieffer E. Bailey, designed by Frank Basile of Entech & Associates and built by Master Marine in 2014, is shown before the 2021 allision. Marquette Transportation photo.
July 29, 2026

Marquette to pay Little Rock $4.3 million for barge allision

The USS Sampson sits inside a containment boom at Vigor Shipyards on Harbor Island in Seattle following a diesel spill during defueling operations. Washington Dept. of Ecology photo.
July 29, 2026

Navy destroyer spills 5,000 gallons of diesel into Elliott Bay

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Detroit District plans to dredge Lake Superior harbors (pictured in order) Cornucopia, Wisconsin, Ontonagon, Michigan and Port Wing, Wisconsin this summer through fall. Army Corps image.
July 29, 2026

Corps plans dredging at three Lake Superior harbors

The Richard L. Brooks, built by SAFE Boats International, was funded through a U.S. Department of Homeland Security port security grant. Town of Babylon photo.
July 29, 2026

Long Island patrol boat enters service

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