Hopes end of finding missing fishermen alive

TWO missing fishermen were feared drowned last night after the wreckage of their sunken trawler was found off the Co Down coast.

Even though helicopters, lifeboats and more than 500 civilians searched the waters and a stretch of rocky coastline, there was still no sign of the two men who disappeared when their boat vanished close to Ardglass Harbour.

The skipper of the boat was rescued by an RNLI lifeboat not long after the Greenhill vessel hit rocks and began to sink.