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Replica ship towed to Eliot

The "Liana's Ransom" was towed into the port of Eliot in the evening of Mar 31 by a fishing boat and will undergo repairs at the Kittery Point Yacht Yard on the Piscataqua River. It lost its main mast when the sail got wrapped around its mast in 10-foot seas. During the rescue operation on Mar 30, one of the nine crew members hit his head while transferring from the disabled ship to a 47-foot Coast Guard lifeboat out of Gloucester and had to be hoisted into a helicopter and flown to Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston with a concussion. The "Liana’s Ransom" had left Halifax on Mar 27. The Coast Guard Station South Portland received a distress call from the ship, which was 58 miles off the coast of Gloucester, at 12:35 a.m. on Mar 30 and dispatched the patrol boat "Ocracoke". The two lifeboats from Gloucester arrived first, about an hour after the distress call, and tried to tow the ship to shore, but the lines broke in rough seas. The ship’s captain, Ryan Tilley, and the Coast Guard made the decision to evacuate then. As there were only eight cold-water immersion suits for the nine crew members, one of them had to jump from the "Liana’s Ransom" to the pitching deck of a lifeboat without the protective gear, but he made it without injury. Reports with photos: http://www.pressherald.com/2015/03/31/coast-guard-keeps-watch-over-disabled-replica-pirate-ship-off-maine-coast/ http://www.gloucestertimes.com/news/local_news/we-re-going-down----call-your-mom/article_5036ad13-ccf3-5b1b-8655-8d7e4b8757f3.html

Tall ship abandoned off Gloucester

Coast Guard SAR crews from the Station Gloucester, Air Station Cape Cod and the Coast Guard Cutter "Ocracoke" rescued nine crewmembers from the "Liana's Ransom" 58 miles east of Gloucester on Mar 30, 2015. Watchstanders at the Sector Boston Command Center received notification at 12:35 a.m. that the vessel's engines were disabled and its sails were wrapped around the mast. As the weather deteriorated, and seas reached nearly 10 feet, Sector Boston launched two 47-foot motor lifeboat crews from Station Gloucester to tow the vessel back to Gloucester. Once on scene, the boat crews connected the tow, but the rough sea conditions caused the tow line to break. The motor lifeboats crews directed the crew of "Liana's Ransom" to don immersion suits and to prepare to abandon ship about 30 miles east of Gloucester and a Coast Guard MH-60 Jayhawk Helicopter from Air Station Cape Cod was diverted to assist. The nine passengers were transferred from "Liana's Ransom" to the Coast Guard motor lifeboats. One man suffered a head injury when leaping from Liana's Ransom and was airlifted to Massachusetts General Hospital by the Jayhawk helicopter crew. The Station Gloucester crews returned to the station with the eight remaining crewmembers. A locator beacon was left on "Liana's Ransom" for tracking and the Coast Guard Cutter "Ocracoke" was en-route to evaluate towing the vessel to port. Winds were gusting to 30 knots. Reports with video and photo: https://www.dvidshub.net/video/396880/coast-guard-rescues-nine-canadian-tall-ship#.VRuis8KKDcu http://www.uscgnews.com/go/doc/4007/2485394/ https://www.dvidshub.net/image/1846329/coast-guard-rescues-9-canadian-tall-ship#.VRpXINWQlnU