Service in Brixham to pay tribute to dead fishermen

The service is being held on Brixham's Fish Quay

Fishermen who have lost their life at sea will be remembered at a ceremony in Devon.

The Fishermen's Mission charity is hosting a service on Brixham's Fish Quay at 11:00 BST on Sunday as part of National Fishing Remembrance Day.

The charity said the event would allow people to pay their respects to fishermen who had either died in seas off Devon or were from the county but died elsewhere.

The names which will be read out date back to 1817, the mission added.

The charity added that Totnes MP Anthony Mangnall - whose constituency includes Brixham - would do a reading during the service.

Songs would be performed by local bands Black Gold and Missin' Tackle, and Torbay RNLI would receive floral tributes which would be scattered at sea, it also said.

Helen Lovell-Smith, Devon's mission area officer for Fishermen's Mission, said all the names which would be read out during the memorial service would eventually be put in a book which would be kept at All Saints' Church in Brixham.

Ms Lovell-Smith said: "When there is a loss of life at sea, it is heart-breaking.

"It's difficult to come and share, but I think there is a mutual understanding, and a mutual grief as well, which gives people strength."