Fifteen crew members from a Spanish hake trawler made landfall at Castletownbere hours after their vessel caught fire off the South West Coast at the weekend, as The Journal reports.
The fishing crew were rescued from their lifeboats by another trawler that answered their distress call following the blaze that engulfed the 31.5m vessel Nuevo San Juan on Sunday morning (2 July).
OPP-7, the Spanish fishermen’s body that owns the casualty vessel, confirmed there was no loss of life in the incident. All crew were safety landed in the West Cork fishery harbour on Monday (2 July).
Esta mañana nuestro buque asociado "Nuevo San Juan", que estaba realizando sus actividades pesqueras en aguas irlandesas, ha sufrido un incendio a bordo. pic.twitter.com/i1kZtVbZgw
— OPP-7 Puerto de Burela (@oppburela) July 2, 2023
The Journal has more on the story HERE.