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Storms Continue to Batter the British Isles VOA News 3 Feb 2002 03:22 UTC 
Two people were feared dead and 34 sailors were rescued, on Saturday, as storms continued to batter the British Isles, whipping up high seas in the surrounding waters.
Royal Air Force helicopter fliers, battling wind gusts of 112 kilometers, plucked 18 crew members of the French trawler "Le Parrain" from 10 metre high waves off the coast of Scotland. One crew member, reported to be the vessel's captain, had been swept off deck and was feared dead.
Winched aboard, the rescued sailors were airlifted to Stornoway, on the Isle of Lewis in the Hebrides.
Earlier, British Coastguards rescued 16 Russian crew members aboard a cargo ship, the Kodima, off the southwestern coast of England.
Rescuers continued to look for a man feared drowned after he was swept from a pier in Brighton, in the south of England.
Some information for this report provided by AP and AFP.
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