Fifteen crew members on a large Spanish trawler fishing off the south west coast of Ireland were rescued from a blazing boat as it went down in heavy seas yesterday.
The crew of the Nuevo San Juan, out of the northern Spanish port of Burela sent out a distress call shortly after 7am yesterday morning, according to reports in the Spanish media.
The Marine Rescue co-ordination centre at Finisterre in northern Spain relayed the mayday to all vessels in the area and put maritime patrol vessels on alert.
