Fishing boats missing in heavy seas

January 12, 2007

Relatives of fishermen brace for bad news after two trawlers are lost in storms off the Atlantic coast of Ireland. An empty life raft from the Pere Charles washed up on shore on Thursday. The boat has a crew of four Irish citizens and one Eastern European, believed to be from Lithuania. Both the British and Irish weather centres issued gale warnings for all coastal regions on Thursday as winds on land gusted at up to 130 km per hour.