ST-PIERRE, France - French officials say they have recovered the bodies of three crewmen who were aboard a freighter that sank off Newfoundland earlier this month.
Jean Pierre Bercot, the prefect of French islands of St-Pierre-Miquelon, says divers searched the wreck of the Cap Blanc and found three of the four men who were thought to be aboard when the ship sank.
The French freighter, loaded with road salt from Argentia, N.L., capsized en route to its home port in the French territory, which is about 20 kilometres from Newfoundland's south coast.
Bercot wouldn't say when the recovery took place, saying only that funerals were being held for the men on Thursday.
Bercot says the vessel was 134 metres from the surface and that divers searched all of it, but didn't find the fourth man.
Jean Guy Urdanabia, Thierry Duruty and Robert Marcil were recovered, while Robert Bechet remains missing.
