Wednesday, December 26, 2007

Tug skipper body found by divers

The body of the skipper of the Flying Phantom tug has been found by police divers searching the capsized vessel.

Stephen Humphreys, 33, from Greenock, was the last of three dead crewmembers to have been recovered. Search teams had previously found the bodies of his colleagues, Eric Blackley, 57, of Gourock, and Robert Cameron, 65, of Houston, Renfrewshire. Special prayers had earlier been said in churches in Greenock for the families affected by the tragedy on the River Clyde. The Flying Phantom sank while towing a cargo vessel to Glasgow at about 1830 GMT on Wednesday.

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