The Atlantic Alaska’s abandoned ships are turning into a multimillion-dollar environmental nuisance. Pieter Ten Hoopen / Agence VU / Redux The Lumberman, a 107-foot World War II–era steel-hull tugboat, has been floating for months at the quiet cruise-ship dock in Juneau, awaiting a watery grave. Abandoned for nearly a decade, the Lumberman was moored in Juneau’s Gastineau Channel in the early 2000s by its last owner. Two years ago, the 192-ton tugboat’s anchor line broke, stranding it in state tidelands and creating a jurisdictional hot potato for city, state, and Coast Guard officials as they debated how to dispose of the vessel.