The body of Mr Timothy Anglend, one of the four crew members of the St Gervase who were drowned on Thursday was recovered by Naval Service divers yesterday and taken to Castletownbere.
The St Gervase left the port for the haddock fishing grounds near Mizen Head at midnight on Wednesday, and at 3 a.m. on Thursday a satellite beacon alerted a passing aircraft that the trawler was in difficulties.
Throughout yesterday divers attached to the LE Aoife dived on the position of the wreck of the St Gervase, which was established after a life-raft attached to the trawler came to the surface.
The trawler was lying on its starboard side in 30 metres of water, and because of the depth divers were able to spend only 12 minutes examining the wreck before returning to the surface. Diving crews attempted to enter the vessel, but their task was made more difficult because of the manner in which it was lying on the sea-bed.
However, just before 4.45 p.m. a member of the diving team succeeded in gaining entry to the St Gervase, and shortly afterwards the body of a crew member was recovered from the wheelhouse area.
Those missing, believed to be dead, are: Mr Ciaran Harrington (18), from St Martin's, Castletownbere, believed to be the youngest crew member on board; the skipper, Mr Gary Kane, l, who was from Donegal town; Mr Jacques Biger, from Brittany, in his mid-30s, who was married and living in Castletownbere;and Mr Timothy Anglend, originally from Co Down, who had an address in Cork.
Throughout yesterday the Baltimore and Castletownbere lifeboats, as well as a fleet of local fishing vessels, continued to comb the area near Mizen Head where the trawler went down in the vain hope that crew members might have survived the freezing water conditions overnight.
The body was brought by the LE Aoife to Castletownbere harbour, where it was transferred to the Castletown lifeboat to be brought ashore.
Large numbers of people gathered in silence at Castletownbere pier as the body was brought ashore. The search for the remaining three crew members will resume at first light this morning, although Force 7-8 gales are forecast for the area, and this could hamper attempts to bring the bodies ashore.
The search for a missing Portuguese fisherman who was swept overboard from a British-registered Spanish vessel 160 miles west of Mayo on Thursday night has been called off, writes Lorna Siggins.
The alert was raised after the 33-year-old man was reported missing by the vessel, the Slebech. The distress call was picked up by Valentia Coast Radio and the Shannon-based Sikorsky helicopter searched the area with a fixed-wing aircraft from Scotland.
The operation, which was co-ordinated by Clyde Coastguard, was stopped at 1.35 a.m. yesterday, when efforts to locate the man proved unsuccessful. The Slebech was still searching the area until dusk yesterday.