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The sentence in question:

> 青森海上保安部によりますと、巡視船２隻を出して **確認したところ全長15メートルほどの古い木造船が見つかり**
> 、外国人とみられる男性２人が乗っていました。

For full context, see
[here](https://www3.nhk.or.jp/news/html/20190113/k10011776551000.html?utm_int=news_contents_news-
main_003).

My attempt at translation:

> "According to the Aomori Coastal guard office, they sent out 2(?) patrol
> boats and the moment they confirmed that a boat of about 15 meters overall
> length was found and two men were aboard."

The problem is that the only way I can interpret 確認したところ so far is the way I
did above. However, it's obvious that I can't really make a meaningful
attribute to 木造船 of it anymore...
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How do 確認したところ and 全長15メートルほどの古い木造船が見つかり relate here?
I think 確認したところ simply means "When they checked".

> 青森海上保安部によりますと、巡視船２隻を出して確認したところ全長15メートルほどの古い木造船が見つかり、外国人とみられる男性２人が乗っていました。  
>  According to the Aomori coast guard office, they sent out 2 patrol boats
> and, when they checked, they found a wooden ship around 15m long with two
> men on board who were thought to be foreigners.

I changed the intransitive 見つかり to transitive in English to make the
translation sound less awkward.
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