The body of a man, who is believed to be one of the missing crew, was found on Friday evening after the 36ft crab fishing boat the Purbeck Isle had failed to return to port at Weymouth. Rescuers were also due to focus on an object that was found on the sea bed by a survey vessel, which is thought to be the wreck of the fishing boat. It is resting on the sea bed at a depth of 180 feet. “It is very difficult to identify what that particular object is. We are concentrating on trying to identify this to either discount it or count it in, as the case may be.” On Friday night HMS York, a Type 42 destroyer, the Royal Fleet Auxiliary Wave Ruler, and US Navy supply vessel 2nd Lt John P Bobo also joined in the search. The three men have yet to be officially named, but were well known in the local community.

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19 May 2012 Last updated at 07:27 ET The wreck of the boat was found 10 miles off Portland A wreck found on the seabed off the Dorset coast has been identified as the missing Purbeck Isle fishing vessel. Survey ship Odyssey Explorer discovered the wreck lying 10 miles off Portland at a depth of 50m. Lifeboats are searching for two missing fishermen after the body of one of the three crewman was found at sea on Friday evening. Dorset Police have confirmed the man who died was David McFarlane, 34, the skipper of the crabber. Coastguards began an extensive search after the vessel was reported missing at about 18:00 BST on Thursday.

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Wreck discovered yesterday ten miles off Dorset coast after wooden vessel had been caught in choppy seas Dorset Police confirm that body recovered yesterday is missing skipper David McFarlane Two other fishermen on board named locally as Robert Prowse and Jack Craig still unaccounted for By Rick Dewsbury and Tom Goodenough PUBLISHED: 07:31 EST, 18 May 2012 | UPDATED: 10:14 EST, 19 May 2012 A hunt for two missing fishermen was called off today as rescue teams found their stricken vessel and its liferaft on the sea bed. Coastguards had been searching since Thursday for Robert Prowse, 23, and Jack Craig, 22, who went missing while at sea. The body of their skipper David McFarlane, 35, was found yesterday. Scroll down to see a video of the ship being rescued last year Fifty-year-old ship the Purbeck Isle DH104, which disappeared in choppy seas off the coast of Bournemouth yesterday with three men on board The survey ship Odyssey Explorer discovered the wreck of their 35ft-long boat the Purbeck Isle lying 10 miles off Portland, in Dorset, at a depth of 50 metres. The vessel was reported missing on Thursday evening

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18 May 2012 Last updated at 23:34 ET RNLI lifeboats, the Coastguard helicopter and a Royal Navy warship are searching for the vessel Lifeboat crews are expected to resume searching for two missing fishermen after a body thought to be that of the third crewman was found at sea. The crew of the Purbeck Isle set off from Weymouth on Thursday morning but the alarm was raised when the 36ft crabber failed to return. The man’s body was found at about 17:30 BST on Friday. Attention will also focus on an object found by a survey vessel on the sea bed at a depth of 180ft.

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