Crews salvage fishing vessel Miss Michelle

SEATTLE – After almost five days battling currents, tides and rough seas, salvage crews today successfully pumped the fuel off the partially submerged fishing vessel, Miss Michelle, near the entrance to Grays Harbor, Wash. Since the vessel posed a navigational and environmental hazard, the Coast Guard and Washington Department of Ecology worked together with vessel representatives and private...

Coast Guard assists vessel taking on water

SEATTLE – Five people were transported from the 58-foot fishing vessel Miss Michelle to Westport, Wash., by a 41-foot motor lifeboat crew from Coast Guard Station Grays Harbor Monday. One person was transported to Grays Harbor Community Hospital in Aberdeen, Wash. A Coast Guard incident management team from Portland, Ore., is on-scene in Grays Harbor, along with a Washington Department of Ecology...

Coast Guard assists vessel taking on water

SEATTLE – The Coast Guard and Washington Department of Ecology (DOE) are responding to the report of a 58-foot fishing vessel taking on water near Grays Harbor, Wash., Monday. At 6:45 a.m., Coast Guard Group/Air Astoria received a call from the fishing vessel Miss Michelle on VHF channel 16 reporting that the vessel was sinking and that the five people aboard abandoned ship to the vessel’s...