{"id":556468,"date":"2026-07-18T19:26:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-18T19:26:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/556468\/"},"modified":"2026-07-18T19:26:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-18T19:26:08","slug":"rescue-operation-as-yacht-takes-on-water-off-mayo-coast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/556468\/","title":{"rendered":"Rescue operation as yacht takes on water off Mayo coast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Six people were assisted by lifeboat and Coast Guard crews overnight, when their yacht took on water in Killala Bay, off the Mayo coast.<\/p>\n<p>Ballyglass RNLI personnel were tasked just before 10pm last night, after the alarm was raised.<\/p>\n<p>Two of those on board were taken from the yacht by a crew from Killala Coast Guard, with the other passengers remaining on the vessel.<\/p>\n<p>Conditions at the time were cloudy with a fresh northerly wind. The call out came amid a Met \u00c9ireann marine warning for north to northwest winds, reaching force 6 at times.<\/p>\n<p>After an initial assessment, a decision was made to take the yacht under tow to Killybegs.<\/p>\n<p>A fishing vessel in the area and Killybegs Coast Guard also assisted, with aerial support from the Sligo-based Rescue 118 helicopter.<\/p>\n<p>The lengthy operation concluded at 6.10am this morning, when the yacht was brought safely to harbour.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Six people were assisted by lifeboat and Coast Guard crews overnight, when their yacht took on water in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":556469,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43],"class_list":["post-556468","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\/556468","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=556468"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556468\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/556469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=556468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=556468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=556468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}