A multi-agency search is under way off the north-west coast of Ireland for a missing UK navy crew member.<\/p>\n
Ireland\u2019s Department of Transport said in a statement that the crew member was last seen at around 10.30pm on Friday.<\/p>\n
It said the Irish Coast Guard received a distress call from a UK naval support vessel before 9am on Saturday.<\/p>\n
The Irish Coast Guard, the Irish Air Corps, the RNLI, the naval vessel and others are involved in the search.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe Irish Coast Guard\u2019s Marine Rescue Co-ordination Centre in Malin Head received a distress alert from a UK Naval support vessel just before 9am this morning.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe alert was for a missing crew member on board, last seen at approximately 10:30pm last night.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe vessel was located north of Tory Island when the alert was raised.<\/p>\n
\u201cMalin Head Coast Guard are co-ordinating a search for the missing crew member in the sea off the northwest coast between Tory Island, Co Donegal and Eagle Island, Co Mayo.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe search from the air is being conducted by the Coast Guard\u2019s fixed-wing plane Rescue 120F, based in Shannon airport; Coast Guard helicopter Rescue 118, based in Sligo; and the Irish Air Corps plane, CASA 284.<\/p>\n
\u201cA search is also being co-ordinated at sea by the UK Naval support vessel and three RNLI all weather lifeboats based at Ballyglass, Arranmore Island and Lough Swilly.<\/p>\n
\u201cOther vessels of opportunity are also involved in the search.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A multi-agency search is under way off the north-west coast of Ireland for a missing UK navy crew…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":141453,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43,4022,4023],"class_list":["post-141452","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news","tag-place-republic-of-ireland","tag-place-uk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141452","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=141452"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141452\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/141453"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}