Patriot Stories
- Patriot Stories
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- Wednesday, January 7, 2009
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What took so long? Coast Guard didn't send help to Patriot for nearly 2 1/2 hours
Coast Guard Station Gloucester, on its own, was not allowed early Saturday to launch a search for a missing fishing boat.
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Instead, the Coast Guard command in Boston decided not to even begin searching for the Patriot until more than two hours after Station Gloucester was informed that its two-man crew had taken it fishing, and that communication between the boat's co-owners — the captain and his pregnant wife, who was onshore in Gloucester — had ominously ceased, except for the remote radio signal from a fire alarm. -
Fishing tragedy draws tributes from overseas
"Scusate non so parlare e scrivere bene l Amerikano."
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"I apologize for not speaking or writing English," is the translation of that opening to an e-mail message to the Times from Massimo, Vita, Chiara and Isabel, European kin of Gloucester's Matteo Russo. - Monday, January 5, 2009
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Patriot 'mystery'
The Coast Guard's regional search and rescue chief said yesterday there was no sign of fire involved in the unexplained sinking early Saturday of a working, apparently shipshape commercial fishing boat whose crew of two were found dead in the water.
Continued ... - Sunday, January 4, 2009
- Mourning the Patriot
- Saturday, January 3, 2009
- Sinking of the Patriot a community tragedy
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