A man has died and two others were rescued from the water after a boat sunk off the coast at Fleetwood, police say.
Lancashire Police said emergency services were called shortly before 8am on Sunday after the vessel, believed to be a decommissioned fishing boat, got into difficulty about a mile off the coast.
Two men, one aged 70 and the other,71, were rescued from the water but a third man went down with the boat and his body was later recovered from the water by the RNLI.
The victim is believed to be a man in his 30s from Blackburn.
A police statement said: "The death is not being treated as suspicious and the matter will be referred to HM Coroner.
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