After an engine breakdown and bad weather left it stranded at sea overnight, the stern trawler Bulldog was towed by the U.S. Coast Guard from the waters off Portsmouth, N.H., into safe harbor in Gloucester.
The 75-foot fishing boat suffered from what was described as a broken engine shaft Thursday night while fishing off the coast of New Hampshire.
A 47-foot motor lifeboat was sent by the Coast Guard from Portsmouth to help them, but because of the 30-knot winds, greater than 10-foot seas, and the size of the trawler, the 210-foot Coast Guard cutter Dependable — based out of Cape May, N.J., but sailing in Cape Cod Bay — was diverted northward to help.
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