PHOTOS: Rowing boat lost during mid-Atlantic hurricane recovered off Cork coast

A British adventurer's transatlantic rowing boat, which was abandoned during a hurricane mid ocean almost two months ago, has been recovered just off the Cork coast.

Members of Castletownbere RNLI discovered the vessel drifting some 500-metres off Toor Pier on the Mizen peninsula yesterday after reports that a vessel was in apparent difficulty.

The lifeboat launched just before 3pm, expecting to begin a search operation, and arrived on scene just before 3.30pm.