UK MRCC Shannon, Ireland MRSC Brixham, UK Cross A, France Royal Navy HMS Anglesey, Island class patrol vessel , frigate (Scene of Search Coordinator) , yacht HMS Scylla (Leander class frigate) RMAS Rollicker A502, ocean-going salvage tug RFA Tidespring, fast fleet tanker of the Royal Fleet Auxiliary 15 Royal Navy helicopters from RNAS Culdrose and RNAS Prestwick, including Westland Sea Kings, 25 sorties for 110 hrs 45 mins, Westland Lynxes 10 sorties for 20 hrs 55 mins and Westland Wessexes, 27 sorties for 62 hrs 35 mins Royal Netherlands Navy , destroyer (race guardship) Irish Naval Service , Deirdre class offshore patrol vessel United States Navy , submarine tender, Holy Loch, Scotland Lifeboats These RNLI lifeboats spent 75 hours at sea in winds: RNLB Guy and Claire Hunter, St Mary's Lifeboat, Isles of Scilly Baltimore Lifeboat, County Cork RNLB Ethel Mary, Ballycotton, County Cork Courtmacsherry, County Cork Dunmore East, County Waterford Lifeboat Solomon Browne Royal Air Force Three helicopters Four Nimrods from RAF St Mawgan in Cornwall Irish Air Corps Beechcraft Kingair maritime patrol Alouette helicopter Royal Ocean Racing Club (RORC) Morningtown, Rodney Hill's Oyster 39 acted as the RORC escort and radio relay boat and was responsible for relaying the positions of the racing fleet. Yachtsmen killed Paul Baldwin Robin Bowyer SLt Russell Brown David Crisp Peter Dorey Peter Everson Frank Ferris William Le Fevre John Puxley Robert Robie David Sheahan SLt Charles Steavenson Roger Watts Gerrit-Jan Williahey (Gerrit-Jan Willering) Gerald Winks The Fastnet Race Memorial at Holy Trinity Church, Cowes, Isle of Wight lists 19 fatalities: the 15 above and Olivia Davidson, John Dix, Richard Pendred, and Peter Pickering who were aboard Bucks Fizz, a yacht shadowing the fleet to view the race. Denis Benson and David Moore were lost from Tempean, which was not a competitor. Their names were added to the Fastnet memorial at Cape Clear Island harbour. See also 1998 Sydney to Hobart Yacht Race Contessa 32 J/30 UFO 34 References Notes Sources Tregoning, Martin, Acting District Controller, Senior SAR Mission Controller HMCG Lands End. Fairchild, Tony (14 August 1979) Kiaola heads for Fastnet record The Daily Telegraph, p. 26 Fairchild, Tony (15 August 1979) Killer wind gives Condor record The Daily Telegraph, p. 29 Fairchild, Tony (16 August 1979) Fastnet may be limited to fewer Yachts The Daily Telegraph, p. 3. Rais, Guy and Bramwell, Christopher (15 August 1979) 10 die in yacht race