Trans-Atlantic rowing effort comes to abrupt end

Britain's coast guard says a four-man team rowing across the Atlantic from New York City to the UK had to be rescued by the US Coast Guard.

LONDON: Britain's coast guard says a four-man team rowing across the Atlantic from New York City to the UK had to be rescued by the US Coast Guard.

It says the crew of the 29-foot long boat was only about a fifth of the way into its 3,262-mile (5,249-kilometre) journey from the Statue of Liberty when it capsized.

The men were trying to reach the Bishop Rock Lighthouse on the Isles of Scilly, a group of small islands off England's southwest tip.

They hoped to break the trans-Atlantic record of 55 days and 13 hours set by two Norwegian-American rowers in 1896.

Britain's coast guard says the men were located from the air today morning and taken aboard a nearby merchant vessel. The crew's website says they are now bound for Amsterdam.
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