Deaths boat ‘engulfed in smoke’

A fatal accident inquiry is due to open into the deaths of three crewmen on a fishing boat at Fraserburgh harbour.

The men were killed in a fire which swept through the the Banff-registered trawler Vision II in August 2008.

They were Filipinos Ramilito Calipayan and Benjamin Potot, both 33, and 50-year-old Latvian, Rimants Venckus.

A Marine Accident Investigation Branch report after the incident said a faulty heater or a smouldering cigarette were the likely causes of the fire.

The fatal accident inquiry had been due to start at Peterhead Sheriff Court last summer.

But it was postponed after the court heard there had been difficulty contacting the dead men’s families and that fresh information had been received from the Health and Safety Executive.

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