Survivors of the 1979 Fastnet Yacht Race gathered on Cape Clear yesterday to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the race which claimed 15 lives. There was no global positioning system (GPS), no ...

A series of paintings and poems will be unveiled at Cork's Cape Clear Museum on Sunday in honour of those who lost their lives in the 1979 Fastnet disaster, 40 years ago. Tragedy struck midway through ...

AN island will host a special series of events to mark the 25th anniversary of one of Ireland's worst-ever sporting tragedies, the Fastnet race disaster. Events in Cape Clear, west Cork, will ...

In August 1979, a massive Atlantic storm turned the Fastnet Yacht Race into the greatest yacht-racing disaster ever witnessed. In spite of the biggest peacetime rescue effort at sea, 21 people died, ...

This gallery of pictures from the Royal Navy's archives show the UK's biggest ever peacetime rescue operation, during the Fastnet Race in 1979. The yacht race from the of Isle Wight and around the ...

This week marks 40 years since the infamous 1979 Fastnet sailing race, when a fierce storm hit the fleet as they made their way from the Isle of Wight off the south coast of England to the Fastnet ...

The 1979 Fastnet yacht race claimed the lives of 19 people as crews battled a raging storm. Forty years on, Lorna Siggins speaks to survivors Yachtsman Neil Kennefick who raced on the Golden Apple in ...

When an “explosion of a storm” tore its way through the Fastnet yacht race off the Irish coast 40 years ago, there were those among the survivors who could not speak about the experience for years.

Former Fastnet lighthouse keeper Gerald Butler is due to represent fellow Irish light keepers at a memorial service for 1979 Fastnet Yacht Race on the Isle of Wight this evening. Former RNLI Baltimore ...