Coast Guard
2 Rescued from Sinking Vessel off Block Island
A U.S. Coast Guard boat crew rescued 2 people around 5:00 p.m. from a sinking vessel approximately 3 miles northeast of Block Island, Rhode Island, Saturday, January 7. Watchstanders from the 1st Coast Guard District Command Center in Boston...
Coast Guard First District’s 11 Memorable Rescues of 2011
The following “Memorable Search & Rescue Missions” of 2011 (and accompanying descriptions) were selected by the U.S. Coast Guard’s First District. Based in Boston, Massachusetts, the First District oversees all Coast Guard missions across 8 states in the northeastern...
Jamestown, RI, Must Register Private Markers, Signs, Buoys
Jamestown Press: The Jamestown, Rhode Island, harbor commissioners are not finished with the Harbor Management Ordinance, it turns out. The panel voted at its December 14 meeting to update the new ordinance, this time to establish how the local...
Disabled Maine Fishing Vessel Towed to Safety
A Coast Guard crew towed a 24’ fishing vessel to safety after it became disabled and began drifting near rocky, shallow water in the vicinity of Quoddy Head State Park in Lubec, Maine, Thursday. The 2-person crew of the...
Update: Ferry Warned Other Boat Before Collision
CapeCodOnline: The Steamship Authority ferry Katama slowed down and stopped and sounded a danger signal just before a lobster boat struck the starboard side of the ferry yesterday afternoon, according to authority general manager Wayne Lamson this morning. “At...
Vineyard Ferry Collides with Lobster Boat
Cape Cod Times: The U.S. Coast Guard is investigating a collision between a fishing boat and a ferry that occurred Wednesday afternoon, December 21. Around 3:45 p.m., the 216′ Steamship Authority vessel Katama collided with the 36′ lobster boat Mirage...
Coast Guard Cutter Campbell Logs Busy Atlantic Patrol
The crew of the Coast Guard Cutter Campbell are home after completing a busy 55-day fisheries and search-and-rescue patrol in the northern Atlantic Ocean. The Campbell, a 270’ medium-endurance cutter based in Kittery, Maine, departed October 24 for the...
Coast Guard Terminates Fishing Vessel Voyage in New Haven, CT
A Coast Guard boarding team from Station New Haven, Connecticut, terminated the voyage of a 40’ commercial fishing vessel in New Haven Harbor on December 7. While performing routine vessel safety checks, the boarding team noted 3 violations. The...
Coast Guard Terminates Fishing Vessel Voyage
A boarding team from Coast Guard Station New Haven, Connecticut, terminated the voyage of a commercial fishing vessel in the waters south of Sachem Head, near Guilford on December 1. While conducting a joint agency operation with the Connecticut...
Sailor Rescued in Long Island Sound
New Haven Register reports that the Coast Guard rescued a 50-year-old man early this morning (November 30) in Long Island Sound, some 2 miles south of the New Haven buoy. The Coast Guard received a call at around 2:30...
