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Newport News captain back from voyage delivering supplies to Bahamas after Hurricane Dorian

Buck Ford guided his scallop boat, the Ocean Fox, to the Bahamas to drop off supplies and help desperate people in need after Hurricane Dorian slammed the island. “They thanked us over and over,” Ford told News 3 on Thursday. “One guy hadn’t had a pair of shoes since the hurricane, so I told him to look around and he found a pair of tennis shoes. Those were the first pair he’d had since the hurricane.” >click to read< Sept. 11,2019,  Newport News scallop boat embarking on 800 mile voyage to Bahamas to deliver disaster relief>click to read<  17:19