Captain R. Corliss Farrin
Ralph Corliss Farrin worked as a boat captain for the US Navy sonobuoy testing range, managed by the Vocaline Company (later VAST, Inc.) at Rutherford Island. Farrin operated the Q-Boat, a 65-foot patrol vessel, refitted for the special antisubmarine testing procedures. On Dec. 10, 1965, while working offshore with the testing crew, Corliss got word on the radio that a Navy patrol plane with a six man crew had ditched at sea 25 miles east of Brunswick, and to proceed to the l