Coast Guard suspends search for overboard tug master
BOSTON — The Coast Guard has suspended its search pending further developments for a 48-year-old man who was reported to have fallen overboard from a Boston-bound tugboat approximately nine miles south of Newport, R.I., Thursday at 1:36 p.m.
Coast Guard crews covered more than 775 square miles searching for the master of the New York-based 91-foot tug Steven-Scott.
The crew of the Steven-Scott contacted the Coast Guard Sector Southeastern New England Command Center at 2:40 p.m., Wednesday, reporting that the man was last seen at approximately 1:30 p.m. and that he may have gone overboard.
“The Coast Guard conducted a thorough search with multiple assets through the night, but unfortunately they did not yield new information,” said Petty Officer 1st Class Joaquin Alayola, a search and rescue controller at the 1st Coast Guard District in Boston.
Searching were crews from:
- Coast Guard Station Point Judith 47-foot Motor Life Boat
- Coast Guard Station Castle Hill 45-foot Response Boat-Medium
- Coast Guard Air Station Cape Cod MH-60 Jayhawk helicopter
- The Coast Guard Cutter Tiger Shark, an 87-foot Patrol Boat from Newport, R.I.
- The Coast Guard Cutter Sanibel, a 110-foot Patrol Boat from Woods Hole, Mass.