Friend of Ship Captain, Whose Boat Sank Off Coast of Massachusetts, Recalls Final Call as Search for Survivors Is Halted

After 72-foot fishing vessel Lily Jean sank off the coast of Massachusetts, a friend of Gus Sanfilippo, the ship’s captain, recalled their final phone call, which took place just hours before tragedy ...

Coast Guard Suspends Search for Missing Boat Crew: What We Know

The search for 7 crew members was suspended after the fishing vessel Lily Jean sank 25 miles off the Massachusetts coast on ...

The U.S. Coast Guard has located one unresponsive body and an unoccupied life raft since the search began

The Lily Jean fishing vessel is best known for being featured in a 2012 episode of the History Channel’s Nor’Easter Men. Throughout the episode, the fishing crew is filmed fishing for haddock, lobster ...

Life raft on large boat catches fire in Portland Harbor

Crews were able to extinguish majority of the fire containing it to the life boat.
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Coast Guard Assists in Rescue of Capsized Belgium Rower During World’s Toughest Row Race

Coast Guard Sector San Juan Command Center watchstanders and the crew of the Horten Liberian-flagged tanker ship rescued a capsized rower in the Atlantic Ocean east of Puerto Rico, Wednesday night.