After a major fire, a superyacht sinks in Torquay Harbour.

A superyacht has sunk after catching fire while fixed in a marina.

Police were called to the blaze on the 85ft( 26m) vessel at Princess Pier in Torquay, Devon, at about 1210 BST on Saturday.

Members of the public described hearing a bang, before seeing a huge premium of black bank. No injuries have been reported, Devon & Cornwall Police said.

Exigency services declared a major incident and officers vacated a near sand and roads.

The boat, which police said beggared from its landing, was secured by the fire service near the marina’s pier before it sank.

The Environment Agency( EA) said it was believed to have had about nine tonnes of diesel on board.

Joseph Barlow said he heard a loud noise and also saw the fire as walking to the near sand.

” I heard a bang like a gun shot from the harbour, followed by big premium of black bank,” he said.

Mr Barlow said he also saw” a fire coming from the boat in the harbour” and that shortly after firefighters arrived and the area was cordoned off by police.

BBC Devon journalist Louise Mitchell said it looked like the fire” was at the end of a pier”.

” You could clearly see massive dears reaching up into the air and the premium of bank was just enormous,” she said.

She added that coastguards had been emptying the area around Torre Abbey Meadows.

In a tweet, the EA said as the vessel had now sunk, the focus was” now on pollution”.

An EA spokesperson added that the response to that trouble would be led by the harbour master, while the agency would give” advice and guidance on bathing water quality”.