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  • 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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    • 12 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.


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      • No Tri Colour on the RHIB anymore ?
        Don't spit in my Bouillabaisse .

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        • Originally posted by Laners View Post
          No Tri Colour on the RHIB anymore ?
          So as not to draw attention maybe?
          "What's this country then? Where do we find it?"

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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 Post
              LÉ 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.

              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 Post
                LÉ 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/
                Good job lads,

                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 Post
                    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"?
                    Put a big "WELCOME TO ITALY" sign on the beach,

                    (Black humor moment)
                    Last edited by sofa; 5 June 2015, 22:10.

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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 Post
                        The 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.
                        Except for the people of the Bideford estuary, who have been looking at a portion of our navy sitting on their quay wall since November last.
                        For now, everything hangs on implementation of the CoDF report.

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                        • Originally posted by morpheus View Post
                          Good job lads,

                          imagine now if you will, how much easier it would have been with a Heli to help in this SAR mission
                          How many can you fit in a heli before the downwash sinks the craft the refugees were travelling in?
                          For now, everything hangs on implementation of the CoDF report.

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                          • Eithne rotation

                            Originally posted by na grohmití View Post
                            How many can you fit in a heli before the downwash sinks the craft the refugees were travelling in?
                            I think we need to plan now for Eithne's rotation in the mediterranean. How do we replace her effectively? Perhaps leave ship on station and rotate crew at a friendly port, say Gibraltar, using a week or so of training at Gib with a seatraining team from the current ships command. It seems space and capacity is the key for outcome.

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                            • Originally posted by na grohmití View Post
                              How many can you fit in a heli before the downwash sinks the craft the refugees were travelling in?
                              i get the impression that the security concerns of this mission mean that those being 'rescued' don't get rides in helicopters, the helicopters are used for ISR and if neccessary to transport very ill casualties from ship to shore (or much bigger, better equipped ship) once they have been searched/secured by the various navies.

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                              • Or a fixed wing patrol aircraft, like the Spanish Casa?
                                For now, everything hangs on implementation of the CoDF report.

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