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| Search for missing fishing boat | |
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| A search is under way in the North Sea for a missing Scottish fishing boat with four crew on board. | A search is under way in the North Sea for a missing Scottish fishing boat with four crew on board. |
| The alarm was raised when staff at the RAF rescue centre at Kinloss picked up a distress beacon late on Thursday. | The alarm was raised when staff at the RAF rescue centre at Kinloss picked up a distress beacon late on Thursday. |
| The signal was broadcast from a location 160 miles east of Aberdeen in Norwegian waters. | The signal was broadcast from a location 160 miles east of Aberdeen in Norwegian waters. |
| An RAF Nimrod Search and Rescue aircraft was scrambled from Kinloss, along with a Sea King rescue helicopter from Stavanger in Norway. | An RAF Nimrod Search and Rescue aircraft was scrambled from Kinloss, along with a Sea King rescue helicopter from Stavanger in Norway. |
| Three other fishing boats have joined the search, which is being carried out in Storm Force 10 conditions with winds gusting up to 80 miles an hour. | Three other fishing boats have joined the search, which is being carried out in Storm Force 10 conditions with winds gusting up to 80 miles an hour. |
| 'Hope and pray' | |
| A second Sea King from RAF Boulmer in Northumberland was scrambled at 0500. | A second Sea King from RAF Boulmer in Northumberland was scrambled at 0500. |
| Michael Mulford from the Rescue Co-ordination Centre at RAF Kinloss said the Force 10 conditions which had raged through the night were beginning to abate. | |
| He told BBC Radio's Good Morning Scotland programme: "Nimrod at the moment is doing a radar search using fairly sophisticated equipment but a daylight search involving the second Sea King helicopter from Northumberland will give us a fair amount of searching capability. | |
| "We also have three other fishing boats who are going backwards and forwards across this search area and we hope and pray that we will get some kind of positive news." | |
| He said the rescue services had a good idea of the identity of the missing boat and that police were making efforts to contact families. |