The owner and two crew members of the Dorothy J, a tugboat that came to the aid of a Staten Island ferry that slammed into a concrete maintenance pier in October 2003, are entitled to a salvage award totalling only $46,000, a Brooklyn federal judge has ruled.
The plaintiffs had originally sought a total of $8 million for the 20 to 21 minutes they spent helping the crippled Andrew J. Barberi reach the St. George Ferry Terminal on Staten Island.
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