Fishing boat carrying 7 people goes missing off Massachusetts coast

Описание: (30 Jan 2026)
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Gloucester, Massachusetts - 30 January 2026
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2. SOUNDBITE (English) Timothy Jones, U.S. Coast Guard search and rescue coordinator:
“It was initially located approximately 22 miles east of Gloucester, of Cape Ann. And our understanding is that they were coming back in, full of fish. We understand that they might have had a casualty to their fishing gear, which required them to come in and fix it before they could go back out to do more fishing.”
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4. SOUNDBITE (English) Timothy Jones, U.S. Coast Guard search and rescue coordinator:
“So at around 06 or 6:40 a.m. this morning we received, as the captain mentioned, a radio distress beacon from the ship indicating that there was an issue. We quickly launched air station Cape Cod helicopter and H-60 helicopter to respond as well as a small boat, a 47-foot motor life boat out of station Gloucester located right next door. The helicopter arrived on scene at approximately 7:15 and surely thereafter identified the debris field and the one individual that was unresponsive. Shortly thereafter, the small boat from the station did recover that person and brought them to shore. On scene during the initial search efforts they also identified a life raft which unfortunately was empty. No survivors found. And the individual that was recovered also was, unfortunately, not wearing a survival suit.”
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6. SOUNDBITE (English) Maura Healey, (D) Massachusetts Governor:
“We know that in Gloucester, fishing is more than a way of life. It truly is the fabric of this community. It has been what this community has been about for generations, for centuries. And that DNA of grit and resilience is something that we take such pride in, in Massachusetts. With fishing, we know, comes a lot of heartache and a lot of uncertainty and a lot of anxiety. And there are a lot of us that go to work every day pretty assured that we're going to come home at night to our families. But in a fishing family, you know, sons and fathers, daughters leave early in the morning, and there's no telling what's going to happen on any given day. And obviously in the last 24 hours we saw a tremendous tragedy. It's an active search and rescue mission at this point. But I want to acknowledge the sacrifice of fishing families and in particular fishing families of the Gloucester community...”
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STORYLINE:
A fishing vessel that went missing off the coast of Massachusetts was carrying a crew of seven people, a state senator said Friday.

The Coast Guard launched a search and rescue mission early Friday after receiving an alert from the 72-foot Lily Jean about 25 miles off Cape Ann. They located a debris field near where the alert was sent along with a body in the water. It said it continued to be in search and rescue mode Friday evening.

Republican State Sen. Bruce Tarr told reporters late Friday that seven people were on the boat.

The Lily Jean, its captain, Gus Sanfilippo and his crew were featured in a 2012 episode of the History Channel show “Nor’Easter Men.” Sanfilippo is described as a fifth-generation commercial fisherman, fishing out of Gloucester, Massachusetts, in the Georges Bank. The crew is shown working in dangerous weather conditions for hours on end, spending as many as 10 days at sea on one trip fishing for haddock, lobster and flounder.


They found a debris field and recovered one person from the water who was unresponsive. They also found an empty life raft.

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