Minute's silence for fishermen
A body has been recovered by coastguards, searching for the crew of three from a fishing boat off the Dorset coast. Hopes are fading to finding the two other crew members.
A body has been recovered by coastguards, searching for the crew of three from a fishing boat off the Dorset coast. Hopes are fading to finding the two other crew members.
Messages of support have been left for the crew of the Purbeck Isle today at the quayside in Weymouth. The wreck of the boat was discovered 10 miles off the coast of Portland yesterday. The body of its skipper has been found. The search for two missing crew mates was called off yesterday.
Prayers and a minute's silence was observed at chuches in Weymouth today for the crew of the fishing boat Purbeck Isle
Coastguards have called off a search for two missing fishermen after the wreck of the boat and its life raft were discovered on the sea bed
The Purbeck Isle from Weymouth got into difficulties last year and was rescued by the RNLI in January 2011.