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The captain of a Boston-based Coast Guard cutter on patrol in the Caribbean was relieved of his command yesterday after his superior officer lost confidence in him, Coast Guard officials said last night.

Commander Howard R. Shaw, in charge of the 270-foot cutter Escanaba, was removed yesterday from his command while at port in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Shaw is en route back to Boston to assume administrative duties at the First District office, said Lieutenant Commander Rob Wyman, a spokesman for the Coast Guard.

An investigation into the situation has been initiated, but there is no timetable for its completion, Wyman said in a telephone interview last night from Portsmouth, Va.

Shaw was ...

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