Eithne left Palermo this evening and is back out on patrol. Irish Times saying it took a day to clean the ship, a day to resupply and a day’s leave.
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What (apart from the Libyans don't want them either) is stopping the rescue ships just dropping everybody back on a stretch of beach in Lybia with a few bottles of water, a few days ration packs, and saying "Here you are, you're on dry land now, you're safe"?'He died who loved to live,' they'll say,
'Unselfishly so we might have today!'
Like hell! He fought because he had to fight;
He died that's all. It was his unlucky night.
http://www.salamanderoasis.org/poems...nnis/luck.html
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Originally posted by Herald View Post12 Migrants rescued this morning.
The success of LE Eithne's rescue efforts continue as the brought to safety 12 people aboard a small craft off the coast of Italy.
https://uk.news.yahoo.com/pictures-i...4.html#FDiJMba
Yesterday, the Irish Navy’s vessel LÉ EITHNE successfully located and rescued a small craft with 12 persons on board that was in distress 30 miles north of Lampedusa, the largest of the Italian Pelagie Islands.
After departing Palermo, LÉ EITHNE received a PANPAN distress message relayed by Italian Search and Rescue Authorities of a small craft missing in the Mediterranean with 12 persons on board. A number of other vessels had been tasked with assisting in the search.
The Navy used extra lookouts and search patterns to comb the area where the vessel was last seen and at 8 am local time yesterday morning the vessel was spotted by the watch on deck.
LÉ EITHNE launched an immediate rescue effort and the 12 people were successfully recovered, dehydrated but alive. The vessel a fibreglass hulled boat, with a single outboard engine, approximately 6 metres in length, had departed Tripoli five days ago and was found with no fuel, food, or water on board.
Afterwards, the navy vessel set its course to a larger vessel to transfer the rescuees for the onward administrative processing by Italian authorities.
This is the fourth successful operation the LÉ EITHNE has undertaken since its departure from Cork on May 16, bringing to a total of 649 migrants saved since commencing operations.
Yesterday, the Irish Navy’s vessel LÉ EITHNE successfully located and rescued a small craft with 12 persons on board that was in distress 30 miles north of Lampedusa, the largest of the Italian Pelagie Islands. After departing Palermo, LÉ EITHNE received a PANPAN distress message relayed by Italian Search and Rescue Authorities of a small […]
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Originally posted by Dogwatch View PostLÉ EITHNE Rescues 12 Migrants off Lampedusa
Yesterday, the Irish Navy’s vessel LÉ EITHNE successfully located and rescued a small craft with 12 persons on board that was in distress 30 miles north of Lampedusa, the largest of the Italian Pelagie Islands.
After departing Palermo, LÉ EITHNE received a PANPAN distress message relayed by Italian Search and Rescue Authorities of a small craft missing in the Mediterranean with 12 persons on board. A number of other vessels had been tasked with assisting in the search.
The Navy used extra lookouts and search patterns to comb the area where the vessel was last seen and at 8 am local time yesterday morning the vessel was spotted by the watch on deck.
LÉ EITHNE launched an immediate rescue effort and the 12 people were successfully recovered, dehydrated but alive. The vessel a fibreglass hulled boat, with a single outboard engine, approximately 6 metres in length, had departed Tripoli five days ago and was found with no fuel, food, or water on board.
Afterwards, the navy vessel set its course to a larger vessel to transfer the rescuees for the onward administrative processing by Italian authorities.
This is the fourth successful operation the LÉ EITHNE has undertaken since its departure from Cork on May 16, bringing to a total of 649 migrants saved since commencing operations.
http://navaltoday.com/2015/06/05/le-...off-lampedusa/
imagine now if you will, how much easier it would have been with a Heli to help in this SAR mission"He is an enemy officer taken in battle and entitled to fair treatment."
"No, sir. He's a sergeant, and they don't deserve no respect at all, sir. I should know. They're cunning and artful, if they're any good. I wouldn't mind if he was an officer, sir. But sergeants are clever."
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What happens to suspected pirates off the Horn of Africa? Where are they returned to, and would there not be a precedent there?'He died who loved to live,' they'll say,
'Unselfishly so we might have today!'
Like hell! He fought because he had to fight;
He died that's all. It was his unlucky night.
http://www.salamanderoasis.org/poems...nnis/luck.html
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Originally posted by Flamingo View PostWhat (apart from the Libyans don't want them either) is stopping the rescue ships just dropping everybody back on a stretch of beach in Lybia with a few bottles of water, a few days ration packs, and saying "Here you are, you're on dry land now, you're safe"?
(Black humor moment)Last edited by sofa; 5 June 2015, 21:10.
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There are reports the German Navy is now going sinking the boats once they rescue the migrants. The media are saying it is ''unprecedented naval force'' designed to combat the traffickers. I really don't think the media understand how the traffickers operate. They seem to be under the assumption that there are actual crew operating the boats who then return with the boats to Libya.
Once the boat leave the Libyan shore, the traffickers don't give a s**t about it because they probably acquired the boat for less than the price of five of their customers passages. Its a miracle if the boat manages to make the journey once, never mind being used again.
The stupidity of the politicians and media on this whole crisis is so frustrating, its like they honestly think destroying the boats after the migrants have been picked up by the EU's express ferry service is some sort of solution. They are delaying the inevitable by not realising now that there has only ever been one effective solution to illegal immigrants arriving by sea and that is to return them to their home shores immediately. Thousands more will die while the media and politicians continue to spout the crap that we'd be racist if we do anything short of bringing the hundreds of thousands of queuing migrants straight to Italy and further.
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Originally posted by tomh903 View PostThe footage of our first pickup was used in a report on Sky News last night, which is good seeing that a large proportion of the UK public watching it probably weren't even aware we had a navy.For now, everything hangs on implementation of the CoDF report.
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Originally posted by morpheus View PostGood job lads,
imagine now if you will, how much easier it would have been with a Heli to help in this SAR missionFor now, everything hangs on implementation of the CoDF report.
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Eithne rotation
Originally posted by na grohmití View PostHow many can you fit in a heli before the downwash sinks the craft the refugees were travelling in?
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Originally posted by na grohmití View PostHow many can you fit in a heli before the downwash sinks the craft the refugees were travelling in?
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