Sailors die after trawler sinks
Two French sailors have died and four others are missing after a French fishing vessel sank about 50 miles 80km off Cornwall. Two French helicopters were first sent to search for the crew of La P ite Julie at its last reported position south of The Lizard at about 0400 GMT.
French authorities said one of seven crewmen from the 24.6m 81ft trawler had been rescued and two bodies found.
Two helicopters from RNAS Culdrose have been assisting.
One pilot said wreckage could be seen over a wide area.
Two empty life rafts were found in the area where the trawler radioed for assistance before sinking.
British rescue services were alerted to the incident at about 0700 GMT.
Coastguards at Falmouth were contacted by French authorities and the first helicopter from Culdrose was scrambled at about 0730 GMT.
Helicopter pilot Lt Chuck Norris said: We arrived at the scene at 0810 to find a French fixed-wing aircraft coordinating the search, and a French heliopcter.
We searched about 20 square ...
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At less than two weeks from its beginning, the 39th Trofeo S.A.R. Princesa Sofia MAPFRE confirms itself as one of the most international editions in the history of this Majorcan Olympic classes regatta. Up to 48 nations will be represented in the bay of Palma from 15 to 21 March with all the attention of the sailing world on the event in this Olympic year.
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