A woman is dead and two men were rescued following an early morning collision, yesterday, between a 600 foot freighter and a 92 foot sailboat five miles north of Roanoke Point Shoals in Long Island Sound. Roanoke Point Shoals is located north of Riverhead, N.Y., along Long Island’s North Shore.
A Coast Guard rescue boat from Station New Haven recovered two of the three person sailboat crew and transferred them to local EMS. The woman was pronounced dead at Yale New Haven Hospital. A man was being treated for mild hypothermia. The third crewman, the sailboat captain, was rescued by the freighter’s small boat and was transported by the Coast Guard rescue boat to shore. He is reportedly in good physical condition.