 That December he was working on the tug "Attaboy", moored alongside the "Majestic," when it is thought the tug's engine kicked back, and Reynolds lost his footing and fell into the Kanawha river and drowned.He was 71 and had lived on or beside the river his whole life.She was forced into dry dock in 1965 by the "Safety at Sea Act," which prohibited wooden hulled vessels from transporting cast and crew on overnight journeys, though by that time the condition of her hull was fast deteriorating.