JONESPORT, Maine — August 29, 2014 — Coast Guard rescue crews assisted a Canadian-flagged fishing vessel early Friday morning after it began taking on water near Chandler Bay.
Watchstanders at the Sector Northern New England Command Center in Portland received a mayday call from the three-person crew aboard the Jill Marie at 4:28 a.m., indicating their 50-foot vessel struck a rock and was taking on water.
Rescue crews from Station Jonesport launched with dewatering pumps aboard a 47-foot motor life boat. Once on scene, the Coast Guard crew boarded the Jill Marie and began dewatering it.
As the pumps controlled the flooding, the Coast Guard escorted the Jill Marie and crew back to Jonesport. Safely moored at the pier, the Jill Marie crew quickly affected repairs and were soon underway again enroute to their homeport in Yarmouth, Nova Scotia.
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