[2] In March 1975, Mecosta was in the Bering Sea near Atka with 28 people aboard when she lost power in a storm.

She found Mecosta attended by another Navy tug, which had been unsuccessful in towing the drifting ship.

In December 2015 Mecosta and her sister ship Redwing broke their mooring lines and went adrift in a storm.

[4] Her owner had no money to take any action and by early 2017 Mecosta had capsized and lay on her port side in the mud.

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