U.S. Coast Guard suspends search for captain of replica HMS Bounty

[The Patriot]

U.S. Coast Guard suspends search for captain of replica HMS Bounty

11-01-2012 08:34 PM

Charleston, South Carolina (Reuters) - The U.S. Coast Guard on Thursday suspended a four-day, round-the-clock search for Robin Walbridge, 63, the missing captain of the replica tall ship HMS Bounty, which sank in heavy seas stirred up by Hurricane Sandy. Fourteen crew members were rescued from life rafts by Coast Guard helicopters on Monday, but Walbridge and another crew member, Claudene Christian, were washed overboard before they could make it to the rafts. Christian, 42, was pulled from the sea later and flown to hospital, where she was pronounced dead. ...




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