Ipswich man who drowned in Plum Island Sound identified

An Ipswich man drowned in Plum Island Sound on Wednesday afternoon, local police say. He has been identified as 72-year-old Richard Collins.

Around 3 p.m., Ipswich police responded to a call from the Ipswich Bay Yacht Club about a person in the water near the club’s mooring area, police said in a press release Thursday. They launched their marine unit and quickly found Collins.

Police brought Collins back to shore, and first responders performed CPR and other lifesaving measures, police said. They then took him to Beverly Hospital where he was pronounced dead.

Police believe Collins was swimming at Clark Beach, which is just south of the yacht club, before he was spotted. Both the yacht club and the beach are located in Ipswich’s Great Neck neighborhood, which is where Collins lived.

Local and state police are conducting an investigation, though the death seems to have been accidental, police said.

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