This morning, the Skerries Coast Guard team provided an escort for the final leg of the arrival of The Pole Sea Memorial to its installation site at Red Island. The memorial will serve to remember all those lost at sea along the nearby coast and from the area. The pole is modelled on the original Coast Guard Breeches Buoy training pole, of which there were three sited on the Red Island headland many years ago.

The completed memorial will include individual plaques dedicated to all those lost at sea along the nearby coast or from the area, and will be unveiled by President Higgins at a public ceremony at Red Island on Sunday 29th September 2013.

Photo shows two Skerries Coast Guard members at the Pole memorial works site at Red Island.

Skerries Coast Guard – a voluntary rescue unit of the Irish Coast Guard.