{"id":486798,"date":"2026-06-06T23:09:19","date_gmt":"2026-06-06T23:09:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/486798\/"},"modified":"2026-06-06T23:09:19","modified_gmt":"2026-06-06T23:09:19","slug":"castletownbere-rnli-lifeboat-rescues-rib-in-difficulty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/486798\/","title":{"rendered":"Castletownbere RNLI Lifeboat rescues rib in difficulty"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Castletownbere RNLI lifeboat was launched this afternoon to assist a rib that experienced an engine fire just off Ardnakinna Lighthouse in West Cork.<\/p>\n

The lifeboat ‘Annette Hutton’ was paged at 2pm and launched minutes later.<\/p>\n

It arrived on the scene twelve minutes later, about a kilometre outside the harbour\u2019s mouth.<\/p>\n

Conditions were blustery with a Force 6\/7 westerly wind and a three-metre swell.<\/p>\n

At this stage the boat skipper had quenched the engine and all people on board were calm.<\/p>\n

The lifeboat immediately took the rib in tow with six persons on board.<\/p>\n

Once the lifeboat was within the calmer waters of Berehaven Harbour, the passengers were taken aboard the lifeboat and the rib towed alongside.<\/p>\n

All persons were safe and well. The lifeboat returned to Castletownbere and the rib was berthed and the passengers went ashore.<\/p>\n

\"The
\nThe lifeboat and its crew took just 11 minutes to get to the rib<\/p>\n

The lifeboat was under the command of Deputy Coxswain Sean Bawn O\u2019Sullivan, with mechanic Donagh Murphy and Coxswain Joe O\u2019Sullivan, crew Joe Cronin, Seamus Harrington, Dave O\u2019Donovan and William O\u2019Driscoll.<\/p>\n

The owner of the boat, Paul O\u2019Shea, expressed his gratitude: “From the time I called Coast Guard for help, Castletownbere lifeboat came into view within 11 minutes.<\/p>\n

“I am very grateful to the crew for their speedy response and the professional manner in which they provided assistance.”<\/p>\n

The Lifeboat Launching Authority, Brendan O\u2019Neill said: “The skipper made the right call by contacting the Coast Guard immediately, which meant that the lifeboat could launch and rescue the boat before conditions deteriorated.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Castletownbere RNLI lifeboat was launched this afternoon to assist a rib that experienced an engine fire just…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":486799,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43],"class_list":["post-486798","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486798","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=486798"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486798\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/486799"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=486798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=486798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=486798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}