A disabled 75-foot New Bedford fishing trawler, towed through 10-foot seas and 30-knot winds by a series of U.S. Coast Guard vessels since breaking down off New Hampshire last night, has arrived safely in Gloucester Harbor and was towed to Cruiseport Gloucester around noon today.
The final steps in the tow, carried out by the Coast Guard's 87-foot patrol boat Flying Fish and a pair of motor lifeboats out of Coast Guart Station Gloucester, came after the 210-foot Coast Guard cutter Dependable, out of Cape May, N.J., was dispatched north from Cape Cod Bay and began the rescue effort last nght.
According to the Coast Guard, the four-person crew of the 75-foot stern trawler Bulldog used their radio to contact watchstanders at the Coast Guard Sector Northern New England Command Center Thursday night to report the vessel's engine shaft had broken and they needed assistance.
The watchstanders issued a marine assistance broadcast requesting any mariners in the area to assist, but did not receive any responses.
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