August 18, 2015 — BOSTON, MA — A fishing vessel carrying 650 pounds of scallops had to be towed to port by the Coast Gaurd when it became disabled.
Coast Guard crews aboard the cutters Escanaba and Hammerhead brought the disabled scalloper safely to shore early Monday.
Coast Guard watchstanders at Woods Hole received a phone call from the captain of the vessel Challenge on Sunday morning, stating a line had fouled the vessel’s propeller, and it was disabled and adrift 70 miles southeast of Nantucket.
Search and rescue coordinators from the Sector Southeastern New England command center in Woods Hole diverted the Coast Guard Cutters Escanaba and Hammerhead to assist.
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