A stranded fishing vessel pulled off the reef outside Kewalo Basin was sunk off Honolulu late yesterday afternoon, officials said.

Commercial salvage company Cates International and a tug boat helped free the Robin, a 47-foot, steel-hull commercial longline fishing vessel, at high tide yesterday, but the boat could not be saved, according to the Department of Land and Natural Resources. The ship had run aground Thursday.

It was towed to an area about three miles outside the harbor and sunk in about 1,200 feet of water with about 8,000 pounds of fish still in its hold.