Harry25
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Swanland see here http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-15908292
Ship sinks North Wales. Five still missing
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sailorman
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She was a regular visitor into Ipswich
shaxi
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sorry to hear that !
PhilipF
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Seems she was on her way from Colwyn Bay to Cowes, with a load of stone, so she would have been well known round the coast.
panthablue
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Just picked this snippet up from Shipbuilders & Ship Repairers on line magazine
"An air-sea search for five men missing from a sunken cargo carrier off north-west Wales is set to resume. Emergency services returned at 07:30 GMT on Monday to the area of the Irish Sea where the Swanland sank after breaking in two on Sunday the 27th of November 2011
Two members of the Swanland's eight crew were plucked from a liferaft by an RAF rescue helicopter early on Sunday. One man's body was found later but a search by lifeboats and aircraft discovered no trace of the rest.
Holyhead coastguards said the vessel disappeared from the radar screen at 02:20 and said a crew member told them it had been rolled over by the wave, breaking its back."
"An air-sea search for five men missing from a sunken cargo carrier off north-west Wales is set to resume. Emergency services returned at 07:30 GMT on Monday to the area of the Irish Sea where the Swanland sank after breaking in two on Sunday the 27th of November 2011
Two members of the Swanland's eight crew were plucked from a liferaft by an RAF rescue helicopter early on Sunday. One man's body was found later but a search by lifeboats and aircraft discovered no trace of the rest.
Holyhead coastguards said the vessel disappeared from the radar screen at 02:20 and said a crew member told them it had been rolled over by the wave, breaking its back."
DTIM
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Abersoch crew said conditions at Bardsey were 'interesting' some video from the Holyhead boat on the link below - I think, hope it works, if not access via main RNLI pages.
http://www.facebook.com/AbersochRNLI
http://www.facebook.com/AbersochRNLI
harstonwood
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I thinks the events of last week had a profound effect on most of us connected to the Llyn, indeed the search goes on for bodies, alas on beaches now.........
The link below from Holyhead crew, not sure if same as link in previous poster. This came from "within"
We should be very grateful, and proud........for the brave work of the RNLI
http://www.rnlivideolibrary.org.uk/getvideo.aspx?vid=tELLJb6L
The link below from Holyhead crew, not sure if same as link in previous poster. This came from "within"
We should be very grateful, and proud........for the brave work of the RNLI
http://www.rnlivideolibrary.org.uk/getvideo.aspx?vid=tELLJb6L