GOSNOLD, Mass. (AP) — Three family members who swam to a private island when their boat caught fire and sank were rescued two days later after their marine radio washed ashore.

“Mayday, mayday, mayday! Our ship went down in Tarpaulin’s Cove!” Tyler Sullivan told a Coast Guard dispatcher early Wednesday morning. “Our ship burned while we were sleeping, and we barely escaped!”

Sullivan and his parents left Falmouth on Friday and had planned to return Tuesday after spending the weekend anchored close to Naushon Island, the largest of a chain of islands between southeastern Massachusetts and Martha’s Vineyard. A relative contacted authorities Tuesday night, prompting a multiagency search that included Falmouth police and the Falmouth Harbormaster.

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