Pacesetter (fishing vessel)
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F/V Pacesetter was a 127-foot (38.7 m), steel-hulled, Bering Sea crab-fishing boat launched in 1976 as Priscilla Ann. In 1979, she was renamed Coastal Glacier. The vessel eventually was acquired by Matt Pope and Dale Lindsay and renamed Pacesetter. Pacesetter was reported missing in 1996 by the United States Coast Guard Seventeenth District headquartered at Kodiak, Alaska. The search ended with no sign of the boat or her seven-man crew. The loss of Pacesetter was noted as the worst sinking in the Alaskan 1996 snow fishery.
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Name | Pacesetter |
Owner | Dale Lindsay and Matt Pope |
Operator | Pacesetter Mariner Inc. |
Builder | Signal Ship Repair, Mobile, Alabama |
Launched | 1976 |
Completed | 1976 |
In service | 1976 |
Homeport | Seattle, Washington |
Identification | IMO number: 7645718 |
Fate | Disappeared 27 January 1996 |
Notes | Named Priscilla Ann 1976–1979; Coastal Glacier (1979–1988); Pacesetter (1988–1996) |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | Crab boat |
Tonnage | 193 tons |
Length | 127 ft (39 m) |
Capacity | 114 pots (misinformation) |
Crew | 7 |
Notes | Worst accident in the 1996 Alaskan snow crab fishery |
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Deadliest Catch star Sig Hansen was once briefly employed as the ship's cook, but never went to sea with her after injuring his ankle.[1]