The wreck of the Purbeck Isle was found yesterday Credit: ITV News
A minute's silence will be observed this morning as church congregations in Dorset give prayer to the crew of a sunken fishing boat.
The wreck of the Purbeck Isle was discovered yesterday lying 10 miles off Portland at a depth of 50 metres. The boat's life raft was found with it on the seabed.
The body of skipper David McFarlane, 35, was found on Friday whilst the search for two of the missing fishermen was called off yesterday afternoon.
The missing fishermen - named locally as Robert Prowse, 23, and Jack Craig, 22 - have not been seen since leaving Weymouth on Thursday morning.
The Reverend Richard Franklin of the Holy Trinity Weymouth with St Nicholas in Weymouth said a minute's silence would be observed in services at the church today.
A wreck found on the seabed off the Dorset coast has been identified as missing fishing boat, the Purbeck Isle.
Survey ship Odyssey Explorer discovered the wreck lying 10 miles off Portland at a depth of 50 metres.
Three men, named locally as 37-year-old skipper David MacFarland, crewman Robert Prowse, 23, and Jack Craig, 22, have not been seen or heard from since leaving Weymouth on the boat on Thursday morning.
Dorset Police have confirmed that a body found at sea yesterday is one of the missing fishermen.
Hopes are fading for two missing fishermen whose boat vanished at sea after a body believed to be that of their third crew member was recovered by coastguard search teams.
The men, named locally as 37-year-old skipper David MacFarland, crewman Robert Prowse, 23, and Jack Craig, 22, have not been seen or heard from since leaving Weymouth on their 36ft boat, the Purbeck Isle, on Thursday.
Hopes are fading for three Weymouth fishermen missing since Thursday morning, after coastguards found an object on the sea bed.
The men have been named locally as 37-year-old skipper David McFarland, crewman Robert Prowse, 23, and Jack Craig, 22.
They have not been seen or heard from since leaving Weymouth on their 36ft boat, the Purbeck Isle.
Searches have been underway off the Dorset coast since they were reported missing at around 6pm on Thursday.
Maritime and Coastguard Agency spokesman Fred Caygill said teams are hoping to send down specialist equipment to look at an object, a similar size to that of the Purbeck Isle, discovered on the sea bed by a survey ship with sonar equipment.
