Three people were plucked from the frigid waters of the Atlantic this morning as they watched their 50-foot tugboat sink below them, the pal who saved them in the nick of time tells the Herald.
“It was the right place, the right time,” a humble Capt. Joseph F. Maloney Jr. of Boston Harbor Pilots said of the rescue of his close friend, Capt. Doug Richmond and two young crew members.
The vessel that sank, the Emily Anne, went down approximately 5 miles east of Deer island in Winthrop, according to the U.S. Coast Guard.
Maloney said he was steaming toward Boston aboard his tugboat, the Chelsea, to pick up three ship pilots when he first heard that Richmond was in trouble.
“He had an immediate tone in his voice when I talked to him on the radio,” Maloney said. “So I got there as quick as possible.”
After using a computer to pinpoint his location at the mouth of the North Channel, Maloney said he was still a half-mile away from the three men when he spotted the silhouette of the Emily Anne plunging into the 37-degree water.
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