{"id":803329,"date":"2026-10-15T11:34:10","date_gmt":"2026-10-15T11:34:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/803329\/"},"modified":"2026-10-15T11:34:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-15T11:34:10","slug":"crew-in-lewis-fishing-boat-tragedy-named-by-police","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/803329\/","title":{"rendered":"Crew in Lewis fishing boat tragedy named by police"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Speaking at Westminster, Western Isles MP Torcuil Crichton paid tribute to coastguard, RNLI and police teams searching for the missing crew.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He said: &#8220;The Western Isles have been struck this week by maritime tragedy by the sinking of the fishing vessel, Kilda, in a Tuesday night storm off the coast of Lewis with what is feared to be the subsequent loss of three souls abroad.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Crichton said his condolences went to the families involved, and to other fishing communities that had suffered losses over the years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">On Wednesday, Kenneth Macleod, convener of local authority Comhairle nan Eilean Siar, told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sounds\/play\/live\/bbc_radio_scotland_fm\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">BBC Radio Scotland&#8217;s Lunchtime Live programme<\/a>: &#8220;It is a very dark day for the community of Ness and the community of Lewis in general.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Our thoughts and condolences are with the families affected.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We cannot comprehend what the families of the three fishermen are going through at the moment.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In a message on X, First Minister John Swinney said: &#8220;This is deeply distressing news.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;My heart goes out to the families of the three fishermen in Ness, and the communities on the Isle of Lewis.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Speaking at Westminster, Western Isles MP Torcuil Crichton paid tribute to coastguard, RNLI and police teams searching for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":803330,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-803329","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/803329","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=803329"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/803329\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/803330"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=803329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=803329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=803329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}