We’ve had this website a whole year now, and it’s time to do a brief annual review so you know who’s visiting, how many of them, and where from. In the last 12 months we’ve posted 107 updates including 43 Call Out Logs.
Our visitor stats by the month look like the yellow bars above, constantly [...]
Howth Coast Guard were tasked at 09.45 this morning by MRCC Dublin to a report of an upturned boat in the water in Balscadden Bay on the East side of Howth Harbour. The report was given by a member of the public.
Four teams of volunteers searched the coast from the East Pier around to the [...]
Howth Boat Jumble in aid of the RNLI.
Saturday Feburary 24th at Howth Yacht Club
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Howth CG was tasked at 0845 yesterday by MRCC Dublin after 2 reports of a flare sighting. A team member went to Dollymount Strand and scanned the area between Howth and Sandymount but saw nothing. Neither had the Dublin Port pilot, the ferry, or any of the three ships anchored in Dublin Bay. It was [...]
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We’re very pleased to be nominated, and to have had such good reviews recently. Our site is now truly becoming an international resource [...]
Howth CG unit were today tasked at 11.15 to a report from a member of the public of a sighting of a suspected body in the water near Balscadden. The team responded to the area quickly. On investigation of the scene it was thought that the visibility was too poor due to fog so we [...]
Howth Coast Guard were yesterday involved in a large scale search for a missing Donaghmede woman. We received a request from the Gardai who had reason to believe she may be in the Howth area. We started at 07.00 and deployed our boat and had three large teams totalling forty volunteers including Civil Defence members [...]
While visiting Howth today, singer Jermaine Jackson from the famous Jackson family dropped in on the Howth Coast Guard crew who had just returned from a callout. He stayed and chatted with members of the unit and got a run down of our duties and activities. He was in Dublin to appear on the Late [...]
