A WISTFUL DEPARTURE FOR VIGILANT

From: The Boston Globe (Boston, MA) | Date: July 21, 1988| Author: | Copyright information

ABOARD THE CUTTER VIGILANT - This 210-foot Coast Guard cutter, for the past 24 years adopted as a family member by New Bedford's 200 or so fishing families, found a new home port yesterday at New Castle, N.H., steaming slowly inside the Piscataqua River just before noon in mist and rain.

Welcoming the vessel were a small band of sign-bearing crew relatives, well-wishers, Coast Guard officers and Portsmouth, N.H., Mayor Eileen Foley

Though smiles abounded in New Hampshire, it had been a difficult departure for both the ship and the fishing people of the southeastern Massachusetts city ...

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