A SEARCH has resumed this morning to find a missing Weymouth fishing boat with three crew members aboard.

Portland Coastguard was alerted yesterday evening and began the search for the Purbeck Isle DH104 assisted by Weymouth RNLI, the NCI at Portland Bill, two Royal Navy vessels and one American supply vessel.

The Lyme Regis RNLI inshore lifeboat launched at 11pm to carry out an additional shoreline search.

The boats returned to station at 3am but resumed the search at 5.30am this morning.

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