Ireland's SAR

[Flyboy]

Someone was asking about Ireland's SAR cover, i.e. the 200 mile limit etc. Try this link.

http://www.marine.gov.ie/display.asp/pg=346

[Stinger]

At 200 miles out are the helos not at the extreme limits of their range

[Flyboy]

I don't want to appear rude ....... but another page on that web-site gives you all the technical data regarding radius of SAR cover etc.

[Fouga]

i see the RN had to Airlift those Canadian Sub guys to Sligo and 1 has died RIP. Amazing the S61's could not do it i think thats because the Sea Kings have a better endurance.

[202]

I know this an air rather than a naval site but what happened LE Roisin which had to turn back having suffered damage in the heavy seas. A bit odd for a ship specifically commissioned for north atlantic patrolling.

[Fouga]

it was a freak wave.

[202]

I would have thought that 'freak waves' were a regular occurrence on the Atlantic.

[Imshi-Yallah]

the most brilliantly engineered and constructed hull made from the finest materials vs the power of the atlantic = broken boatie.

It happens, complaints on a postcard to M. Nature

[Tony Kearns]

The Corvettes would not have had to return to base. The three Navy Corvettes had served with the Allies in the Atlantic in all weathers during the war.
tony K

[Pink Panther]

Quote (Fouga @ 06 Oct. 2004,14:34)

i see the RN had to Airlift those Canadian Sub guys to Sligo and 1 has died RIP. Amazing the S61's could not do it i think thats because the Sea Kings have a better endurance.

The sub was in an area which falls under the responsibility of Clyde coast guard.It was well inside the range of the S-61 flying from Carrickfinn or Eglinton.The irish coast guard offered assistance (aircraft),it wasn't taken up!

[GoneToTheCanner]

Hi all
with reference to the Corvettes mentioned by TK, I remember an old navy sweat saying that a Corvette "would roll on wet grass". He served on them in the RN and our NS and hated them because they were awful to roll, were cramped, slow and had an open bridge and very poor crew facilities.He loved the generation of ships the NS recieved after the old stuff was paid off.
Those subs the canadians bought were the subject of a damning article in one of the British broadsheets lately.
regards
GttC

[P.Doff]

Dont forget guys that SAR doesnt just mean Heli's!!
A CASA was on standby to assist by dropping its four ten man rafts if need be,it can also drop parachute flares to illuminate the area at night, but the call didnt come? A Nimrod from the RAF was orbiting the area also.
The a/c that does the searching doesnt have to be the one that does the rescuing also!!