{"id":203632,"date":"2025-12-21T14:25:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-21T14:25:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/203632\/"},"modified":"2025-12-21T14:25:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-21T14:25:08","slug":"police-continue-missing-person-search-after-boat-found-on-shore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/203632\/","title":{"rendered":"Police continue missing person search after boat found on shore"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">Police are continuing to search for the sole occupant of a creel boat after it washed ashore in Aberdeenshire.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">The vessel ran aground near Inverbervie Beach at about 11:15 on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">Emergency services, including a coastguard helicopter, a fixed-wing aircraft, and rescue teams from Montrose, Stonehaven, Arbroath and Aberdeen, were involved in the initial search.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">Lifeboats from Arbroath, Montrose and Stonehaven also assisted.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">But, almost 24 hours later, HM Coastguard confirmed it was no longer involved in the operation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">Police Scotland said inquires to trace the sole occupant of the boat were ongoing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">A force spokesperson said: &#8220;A multi-agency search was carried out to trace the sole occupant of the boat, including searches of the Lunan Bay and coastal and surrounding areas.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">&#8220;Officers are continuing to carry out inquiries and the missing person remains outstanding.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police are continuing to search for the sole occupant of a creel boat after it washed ashore in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":203633,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-203632","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203632","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=203632"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203632\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/203633"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=203632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=203632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=203632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}