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image captionA search for missing fishermen Alan Minard, Ross Ballantine and Carl McGrath was called off on Friday
A prayer vigil has been held online for three fishermen who are missing off the coast of north Wales.
A major search for Alan Minard, Ross Ballantine and skipper Carl McGrath was called off after two days.
They were working on the Nicola Faith, which was last seen on Wednesday night.
Rev Sam Erlandson, of St Paul s Church in Llandudno - who held the vigil on Facebook because of the pandemic - said it was the not knowing that hurts the most .
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media captionAs the search for three fishermen is called off, a community desperately rallies
A major search operation for three men missing on a fishing boat off north Wales has been called off pending further information .
The crew, missing since Wednesday, has been named as Alan Minard, Ross Ballantine and skipper Carl McGrath. I just want him to be home and safe, Mr McGrath s girlfriend Amy Lamb told the Conwy Nub News.
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image captionAmy Lamb, pictured with missing boyfriend Carl McGrath, said she was ridiculously anxious
Speaking after the search was called off on Friday, HM Coastguard s Rob Priestley said: We have carried out highly-concentrated and thorough searches of wide areas off the north coast of Wales to locate this vessel - using all available resources - but, sadly, nothing has been found so far.
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