THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT
Copyright (c) 1994, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: Monday, November 14, 1994 TAG: 9411140076
SECTION: LOCAL PAGE: B3 EDITION: FINAL
SOURCE: STAFF REPORT
DATELINE: PORTSMOUTH LENGTH: Short : 30 lines
Coast Guard aircraft and the cutter Aquidneck searched a 2,600-square-mile area off the North Carolina and Virginia coasts Sunday for a 40-year-old man who was reported missing from the luxury liner Queen Elizabeth 2.
The man, a U.S. citizen whose name was withheld, boarded the liner about a week earlier in Baltimore, Coast Guard officials said. The man was last seen about 4 p.m. Saturday aboard the ship as it sailed about 70 miles off Cape Hatteras, said Coast Guard Petty Officer Michael Davis of the Fifth District Command Center.
Davis said the man was reported missing about 8 p.m. Saturday and the Coast Guard was notified two hours later.
A Coast Guard plane and helicopter out of Elizabeth City searched overnight. At daybreak Sunday, the Portsmouth-based cutter Aquidneck joined the 120-mile search from near Cape Hatteras to the mouth of the Chesapeake Bay.
The search was suspended at mid-afternoon pending any new developments.
KEYWORDS: LOST AT SEA MISSING PERSON by CNB