Went ot Hood Canal from Kingston on our boat XXXXX to shirmp.  We were returning to Kingston after shrimping on the same day when the starter battery located in the tank storage room caught fire.  I had 5 of the 7 passengers start laoding into the life raft while my son and I used the on board fire extinguishers on board the fire was still smoldering so we notified the Coast Guard on the VHF that were were abandoning the boat and gave them our coordinates.  After dropping the passengers off on shore my son and I retruned to the boat and observed the fired had gone out.
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