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    Good thing our people recently trained for just such an event. I expect it may become more common. A number of ships of this type on this route visit Ireland weekly.
    Well done to the SBS.


    The vessel had been sailing in circles in the Thames Estuary after the crew were threatened.


    Four stowaways found on a cargo ship in the Thames Estuary have been detained after the vessel's crew was threatened.
    The Grande Tema's crew had to lock themselves in the vessel's bridge for safety, a spokesman said.
    Essex Police said the vessel was boarded and secured shortly after 23:00 GMT on Friday - almost 14 hours after the force was first called.
    Four men who were on the ship have been held under the Immigration Act, the force added.
    A police spokesman said they would be handed over to UK Border Force.
    The stowaways had demanded to be taken to the coast, according to the ship's owner.
    Police previously said the situation was not being treated as a hostage, piracy or terror-related issue.
    GPS trackers showed the 71,000-tonne ship sailing in circles in the Thames Estuary. It had set off from Lagos, Nigeria, on 10 December. It docked at Tilbury just before 04.30 GMT.
    Grimaldi Group, which owns the vessel, said the four stowaways were discovered on board four days ago.
    They were put under surveillance in a cabin but escaped earlier and made threats to the ship's master as the vessel approached Tilbury, urging him to get close to the coast.
    Grimaldi spokesman Paul Kyprianou said: "The vessel was coming from Nigeria and was bound to Tilbury and those four stowaways were in the cabin.
    "Today they managed to escape from the cabin and they started threatening the crew, requesting the master of the vessel [navigate] very close to the coast.
    "That request was probably because they wanted to jump and reach the British coast."
    He said the crew had locked themselves in the command area of the vessel.
    Mr Kyprianou added: "It's a small group but obviously you can understand it would be scary."
    For now, everything hangs on implementation of the CoDF report.

  • #2
    UKSF fastrope assault on the ship.probably SBS.
    Not the first time they have had to do this.
    Look up the MV Claudia incident.
    Different circumstances.Similar TTP's.

    Well done UKSF.
    "Let us be clear about three facts. First, all battles and all wars are won in the end by the infantryman. Secondly, the infantryman always bears the brunt. His casualties are heavier, he suffers greater extremes of discomfort and fatigue than the other arms. Thirdly, the art of the infantryman is less stereotyped and far harder to acquire in modern war than that of any other arm." ------- Field Marshall Wavell, April 1945.

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    • #3
      I look forward to the 300 books on this incident....



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      • #4
        Originally posted by Rocinante View Post
        I look forward to the 300 books on this incident....



        You cynic - it’s only a rumour that selection contains a creative writing exam...
        '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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        • #5
          SBS stormed a boat on the Thames for drugs before

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          • #6


            British Home Secretary Sajid Javid has promised to do more to stop small boats carrying migrants across the English Channel, after cutting short his Christmas break to deal with what he described as a “major incident”.

            Mr Javid took the decision to return to the UK amid calls from MPs for the British Royal Navy to be sent in or for UK Border Force cutters to be brought back from the Mediterranean to intercept traffickers’ dinghies.

            He said he was keeping the number of UK Border Force vessels in the Channel “under close review”, but admitted there was “no one easy answer” to a situation which has seen dozens of attempts to make the perilous crossing from France.

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            • #7
              Originally posted by TangoSierra View Post
              https://www.irishexaminer.com/breaki...ue-894602.html

              British Home Secretary Sajid Javid has promised to do more to stop small boats carrying migrants across the English Channel, after cutting short his Christmas break to deal with what he described as a “major incident”.

              Mr Javid took the decision to return to the UK amid calls from MPs for the British Royal Navy to be sent in or for UK Border Force cutters to be brought back from the Mediterranean to intercept traffickers’ dinghies.

              He said he was keeping the number of UK Border Force vessels in the Channel “under close review”, but admitted there was “no one easy answer” to a situation which has seen dozens of attempts to make the perilous crossing from France.
              Drop everything, four people in an inflatable toy are trying to invade ENGLAND!
              For now, everything hangs on implementation of the CoDF report.

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              • #8
                33 people including 3 kids over 3 days illegally entering a country by crossing one of the busiest sea lanes in the world



                A spokeswoman for the French Maritime Prefecture, Ingrid Parrot, said the number of illicit crossings in small boats had increased from 23 in 2016 and 13 in 2017 to 70 this year, the majority of them after the end of October.
                Ms Parrot told Today: “Before 2018, we didn’t have smugglers. But now we have smugglers on the French coast and it is really a network
                Last edited by TangoSierra; 30 December 2018, 11:04.

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                • #9
                  Of course, the ethical question is, does the UK put more rescue boats out, and encourage a situation like Libya where the smugglers only try to get people six miles offshore in the knowledge they will be picked up, or not put any extra resources into the area so as not to encourage more boats, and have bodies washing up on the beach...
                  Last edited by Flamingo; 30 December 2018, 12:37.
                  '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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                  • #10
                    Originally posted by Flamingo View Post
                    Of course, the ethical question is, does the UK put more rescue boats out, and encourage a situation like Libya where the smugglers only try to get people six miles offshore in the knowledge they will be picked up, or not put any extra resources into the area so as not to encourage more boats, and have bodies washing up on the beach...
                    Nailed it. The UK is currently considering whether to withdraw the border force cutters from the Med, to prevent such an influx. However the problem here is the channel is so busy many of those making the journey may not make it as far as six miles without becoming part of bow art for a passing cargo ship.
                    For now, everything hangs on implementation of the CoDF report.

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                    • #11
                      The cynical position would be the French seeing Brexit as a chance to clear house in Calais and other migrant embarkation points by turning a soft hand to organised migrant traffickers.

                      Although two British Soldiers recently saw it was a lucrative market and wanted in

                      Two British Army soldiers were involved in a plot to smuggle illegal immigrants from the Calais Jungle camp into the UK, a court has heard.

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                      • #12
                        Of course, the headline after March will be:

                        "Royal Navy pick up four migrants in dinghy in the Channel, return them to Dover"...
                        '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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