Coast Guard

Coast Guard crews suspended their search for two missing fishermen near Block Island, Rhode Island Wednesday.

The former captain of a New Bedford fishing boat owned by Carlos Rafael, was sentenced today in federal court for interfering with a U.S Coast Guard inspection.

A male crew member working aboard a tugboat in New Bedford Harbor suffered serious injuries to his legs as a barge capsized on Monday afternoon.

A fisherman aboard a New Bedford-based vessel is airlifted after the captain of the boat contacted the Coast Guard.

The fire was extinguished using the ship’s installed carbon dioxide fire suppression system.

BOSTON (AP) _ The Coast Guard says a fisherman was medically evacuated after he fell overboard about two miles off the coast of Provincetown.
The Coast Guard said it responded with the Provincetown Fire Department Saturday morning.
It says the captain of the scallop boat Glutton notified the Coast Gua…

NEW BEDFORD — Four crew members from the fishing vessel Rose Marie were rescued after their vessel caught fire Thursday afternoon, about 65 miles east of Chatham.
Three other fishing vessels took part in the rescue, with the vessel Seven Seas picking up the crew members from their life raft...

NEWPORT, R.I. — A Rhode Island woman has been rescued after apparently falling off a sailboat and being stranded for hours on an island in Narragansett Bay.
The U.S. Coast Guard says the woman said she fell off her husband's 39-foot sailboat sometime Friday afternoon as they were sailing f…

Coast Guard units throughout the Northeast have responded to more than 90 cases of unmanned, adrift and mostly unlabeled paddlecraft so far this year.

Two vessels, including one that capsized, required assistance in the waters off Wareham on Sunday, and at least one person was treated for hypothermia.