US Coast Guard helicopters have rescued 14 members of the crew of HMS Bounty, a tall ship replica abandoned in the midst of Hurricane Sandy, but two people are still missing, the Coast Guard says.
A Coast Guard HC-130 aircraft remained on the scene off the coast of North Carolina searching for the two missing crew members, it said.
"The 14 people are being flown to Air Station Elizabeth City where they will be met by awaiting emergency medical services personnel," the Coast Guard said.
The Bounty's 16 crew members had abandoned ship, donning cold water survival suits and life jackets and launching two lifeboats as the tall ship foundered in heavy seas 250 kilometres from the eye of Hurricane Sandy.
The HC-130 aircraft was dispatched in response to a distress call and established communications with the Bounty's crew, the Coast Guard said.
Then two Coast Guard MH-60 Jayhawk helicopters reached the site from Elizabeth City, North Carolina.
The first "hoisted five people into the aircraft, and a second helicopter arrived and rescued nine people", the Coast Guard said.
"The C-130 Hercules aircraft remains on scene and is searching for the two missing crew members and a third Jayhawk crew is en route to assist search and rescue efforts," the Coast Guard said.
The owner of the vessel, which was built for the 1962 movie Mutiny on the Bounty with Marlon Brando and has also featured in Pirates of the Caribbean with Johnny Depp, said he lost contact with the crew late Sunday.
The current HMS Bounty is a replica of the eponymous British vessel known for the mutiny that took place in Tahiti in 1789.
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