Major search in progress for three people on missing Conwy fishing boat

For info :-

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-55846206

More local info :-

https://www.dailypost.co.uk/news/north-wales-news/live-rnli-coastguard-search-missing-19719603

https://rhyl.nub.news/n/rhyl-rnli-team-update-on-their-involvement-on-today39s-search-for-fishing-vessel

I'm sure all our thoughts are with the skipper and two crewmen's families as they wait for news.

search suspended until Friday morning

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-55846206

Still missing

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-55846876

https://rhyl.nub.news/n/rhyl-rescue-teams-rejoin-search-for-missing-fishing-vessel

Looks like this boat has had engine trouble a few years back...

https://www.northwalespioneer.co.uk/news/16370167.llandudno-lifeboat-comes-aid-stricken-fishing-vessel/

Hopefully they are just anchored up somewhere waiting for a rescue.

Notbad wrote:

I'm sure all our thoughts are with the skipper and two crewmen's families as they wait for news.

All day my thoughts have been with them, I often saw them often working off shore between Llanddulas and Rhos on Sea. God bless them and hope they can be found safe and well.

The coastguard calls off the search for three missing fishermen "pending further information".


If anyone is walking the local coast please keep an open for anything that may provide further information.

This is so sad my thoughts go out to a there families and friends. Were they professional fishermen or lecturer? We’ve been following things as they’ve unfollowed here in the midlands.

Seems to be a lack of results being published at the moment,and no media coverage.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-55874318

Sad times,nice to see the efforts of the RNLI etc.
I wonder with the modern technology if they will do a satellite search over to the Irish coast etc.
If they lost their anchor they could have drifted miles.

Kirky's Dad wrote:

This is so sad my thoughts go out to a there families and friends. Were they professional fishermen or lecturer? We’ve been following things as they’ve unfollowed here in the midlands.

I believe they were prossional fishing men on a commercial fishing boat hauling pots.

Thanks for that. Anymore news?

Not so far as I am aware I am afraid.

https://www.northwalespioneer.co.uk/news/19053831.messages-support-pour-rnli-prayer-vigil-held-fishermen-went-missing-off-coast-conwy/

Kirky's Dad wrote:

Thanks for that. Anymore news?

No nothing been found, not even any debri on the beaches, the local facebook has request for beach walkers to keep an eye for anything that may get washed up with the tide and to ring the coast guard or police, I was looking myself yesterday up to high tide time, it is very sad, I cannot think what would have caused the boat to go missing without trace, no mayday, being a commerial fishing boat it would have had a tracker, location beacons, DCS radio, I assume the crew would all had a cell phone each, the signall is very good where they work. My heart felt thoughts are with their familys.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-55888459

https://conwy.nub.news/n/company-using-sonar-to-search-for-conwy39s-missing-fishing-boat

Glad to see there is something being done.
Sorry for masking over the post with my Blue Fin Tuna post,
I thought there was nothing being done about the boat tragedy,
and the post was over.

I am afraid this thread could run for some time. We have to talk about other topics as well.

It makes me wonder if a waterproof homing beacon/black box,might be a good idea to have on boats.I would never have thought a boat would completely disappear just off the north Wales coast.

This is so tragic not knowing it must be awful for relatives and friends just waiting for some news. You would of thought something would of turned up after all this time. So sad.

Still nothing found. Families now trying to fund for a private search firm

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-56231963


Marine accident investigators progress

https://conwy.nub.news/n/marine-accident-investigation-branch-confident-of-finding-missing-fishing-boat

MusselMan wrote:

Still nothing found. Families now trying to fund for a private search firm

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-56231963


Marine accident investigators progress

https://conwy.nub.news/n/marine-accident-investigation-branch-confident-of-finding-missing-fishing-boat

Thanks for that MusselMan for keeping us up to date. It’s so sad.

the liferaft has turned up off Scotland, presume drifted/blown there, kit in it is unused.