According to the information available the four-member crew of the 49-foot Mary Elizabeth is not in any distress. Coast Guard Sector Boston issued a marine broadcast requesting assistance for the boat, after receiving a radio call from the Mary Elizabeth crew around 4 a.m., Saturday, reporting their boat was experiencing engine problems.
The Coast Guard informed that they received no response to the broadcast, so watchstanders at the First District Command Center in Boston directed the Coast Guard Cutter Jefferson Island, homeported in Portland, Maine, to assist the Mary Elizabeth. Tim Carton, a search and rescue specialist from the First District, said that the Mary Elizabeth crew could only operate their boat at two-knots because at that speed they are only able to hold position, and with the weather expected to worsen tonight, we knew we had to get the Jefferson Island crew on scene to help these guys out.
It is also told that the Jefferson Island crew have reached the scene with the Mary Elizabeth around 5 a.m., on Monday and is towing the disabled boat toward Scituate. It is also told that the vessel Isabella & Ava is expected to meet the cutter later today and complete the tow into Scituate.
