Search teams head to Swona

January 4, 2015 at 2:38 pm

The Coastguard search party prepares for their transfer to Swona. (www.theorcadianphotos.co.uk)

IMG_6918a — One of the search teams board the helicopter at Burwick, South Ronaldsay. (www.theorcadianphotos.co.uk)

A team of ten Coastguard has been airlifted to the uninhabited isle of Swona as part of the ongoing search for the missing crew of the overturned freighter Cemfjord.

The team was transferred from Burwick, in two groups, by Coastguard helicopter.

Meanwhile, an inflatable dinghy has been recovered by a search party in South Ronaldsay, but, as yet it, is not known whether it came from the Cemfjord.