{"id":141543,"date":"2025-11-15T17:16:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-15T17:16:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/141543\/"},"modified":"2025-11-15T17:16:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-15T17:16:07","slug":"search-operation-launched-off-donegal-coast-after-person-reported-missing-from-uk-naval-vessel-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/141543\/","title":{"rendered":"Search operation launched off Donegal coast after person reported missing from UK naval vessel \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">A search operation off the northwest coast is under way for a person last seen at about 10.30pm last night. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">At 9am on Saturday morning, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/irish-coast-guard\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/irish-coast-guard\/\">Irish Coast Guard<\/a>\u2019s Malin Head centre received a distress alert from a UK naval support vessel reporting that a crew member  was missing. The vessel was located north of Tory Island off the coast of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/donegal\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/donegal\/\">Donegal<\/a> when the alert was raised. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Malin Head Coast Guard is co-ordinating the search along the coast between Tory Island and Eagle Island, Co Mayo. A Coast Guard fixed-wing plane and rescue helicopter are conducting a search from the air alongside an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/air-corps\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/air-corps\/\">Irish Air Corps<\/a> plane. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">A UK naval support vessel and three RNLI all-weather lifeboats are also aiding the search at sea, alongside other vessels. There is no further information  available on the missing person\u2019s identity. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A search operation off the northwest coast is under way for a person last seen at about 10.30pm&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":141544,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[81336,1485,61,60,43],"class_list":{"0":"post-141543","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ireland","8":"tag-air-corps","9":"tag-donegal","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland","12":"tag-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141543","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=141543"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141543\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/141544"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}