CGC WILLIAM CHADWICK

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Search for missing person suspended

The 'William Chadwick' was involved in an SAR operation of the US Coast Guard, searching for a missing person after a vessel capsized on the afternoon of Feb 22, 2025, near Breezy Point. The missing person has been identified as 52-year-old Vernon Glasford and was last seen wearing a gray hoody, blue jeans, and black boots. The Coast Guard had three aircrews, two small boats and two ships search overnight and into the morning of Feb 24. The vessel, a Grady White, approximately 30 feet long, had departed from Howard Beach on the morning and was fishing recreationally. A Coast Guard Station Sandy Hook boat recovered three people, an Air Station Atlantic City air crew recovered one, and an NYPD aviation crew recovered one additional person. All five people were transported to local hospitals. Four of them were unresponsive. The incident began at 12:04 p.m. when the Coast Guard Sector New York received a notification from New York City 911 operators about a vessel taking on water near Breezy Point, a neighborhood at the tip of Queens’ Rockaway peninsula. Coast Guard watchstanders issued an UMIB and deployed three rescue boats from Coast Guard Station New York and Station Sandy Hook and an MH-65 helicopter from Coast Guard Air Station Atlantic City. Other Coast Guard units that have responded included: - Coast Guard Station New York; - Coast Guard Station Sandy Hook; - Coast Guard Cutter 'Bonito'; - Coast Guard Air Station Atlantic City; - Coast Guard Air Station Cape Cod. NYPD Harbor and Aviation units, FDNY Marine units, the New Jersey State Police, and Sandy Hook Pilots also assisted in the response. The Coast Guard crews searched a combined total of approximately 842 square miles over the course of 30 hours, utilizing crews aboard helicopters, planes, ships and small boats, before the search was suspended on Feb 24 at 6 p.m.

Coast Guard cutter in vain tried to keep sinking fishing vessel afloat

On Jan 17, 2025, the 'William Chadwick (WPC-1150)' assisted the fishing vessel 'Miss Sandy' on the Atlantic Ocean, about seven nautical miles off Gloucester, Massachusetts, which had suffered water ingress in the engine room. As the crew was unable to stop the flooding with four to five feet of water in the engine room and exhaust fumes filling the space, adding to the danger, the fishermen issued a distress call. Within 30 minutes, the Coast Guard cutter had reached the 'Miss Sandy', along with crews of the Station Gloucester. Dewatering pumps were placed on board the fishing vessel. and the crew was safely taken off. The 'William Chadwick' attached a towline and proceeded towards Gloucester. However, the flooding increased, and the pumps could not cope with the flooding. The cutter dropped the towline just before the 'Miss Sandy' sank stern first. There were no reports of injuries. Report with photos: https://www.nationalfisherman.com/crew-rescued-in-sinking-off-gloucester-harbor