Tag Archives: F/V Moonraker
Coast Guard investigates sunken vessel in New Bedford Harbor
The Coast Guard is investigating what caused a 45-foot fishing vessel to sink early Sunday morning by steamship pier. The Coast Guard received a call from the owner of the fishing vessel Moonraker at 8:17 a.m., according to the agency. The owner discovered the vessel was submerged about a half hour earlier. >click to read<20:45
Winter Harbor man gets 30 months, Six skippers to be sentenced for scallop scheme
Christopher Byers, 42, has been sent to federal prison for more than two years for his role in a scheme to illegally harvest and conceal scallops. George Bamford of Harrington, Robert Hersey of Harspwell, Michael Johnson of Milbridge, James Leighton of Milbridge, Michael McKenna of Steuben, and Daniel Mahoney of Gloucester, Massachusetts, each pleaded guilty in 2012 to filing false fishing reports and with tampering with those reports in order to obstruct the investigation. Read the rest here 22:18
Sean Mahoney’s F/V Moonraker, catches fire while hauled out at Rose’s Wharf, from welding sparks
Firefighters knocked down a boat fire at Rose’s Wharf on Friday about 8 a.m. continued@ gloucestertimes
