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Navy Icebreaker Atka Breaks Ground in Buzzards Bay
The 285-foot icebreaker Atka ran aground on a ledge in Buzzards Bay and flooded in its engine rooms. Tow vessels then towed the vessel to Boston after quick action by pumps. It had sailed from Boston with 20 officers and 200 enlisted men en route to Davisville to load ammunition for a mission to assist in evacuating Navy scientists from an Arctic ice island in East Greenland Sea.
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