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Shipwrecked sailor rescued by RN task group
11.02.05 11:27
A sharp-eyed lookout in a Royal Fleet Auxiliary supply ship saved the life of a shipwrecked Yemeni fisherman – although the rescue came a day too late for the man’s companion.
While transiting the Red Sea, RFA Fort George
RFA Fort George
part of the Royal Navy’s MARSTRIKE 05 task group – spotted a fishing crate floating off her port bow early one morning, and on closer examination a man was seen in one of the compartments.
A seaboat from the French frigate FS Guepratte,
attached to the group, went across to pick up the 20-year-old man, Hayel Darabish Fartouk, who had been adrift for seven days and was suffering from dehydration and shock.
They also recovered the body of a second man, who had died the day before.
Having been given first aid by the French ship’s doctor, the man was transferred to the sick bay of task group flagship HMS Invincible using one of 820 Naval Air Squadron’s Merlin helicopters.
On board Invincible Hayel was able to communicate with Officer Cadet Hadi Chehaitly, a Lebanese officer under training with the Initial Sea Training Squadron from Britannia Royal Naval College, Dartmouth.
OC Chehaitly was able to discover that Hayel had been one of a 19-strong crew on a fishing boat which had sailed from Yemen two weeks previously.
After a week at sea it was caught in a storm, and although it ran for cover in the lee of an island it was swamped and capsized.
Hayel and his colleague managed to scramble into a crate used for storing ice, but they saw nothing of the other 17 crew members, including two of Hayel’s brothers.
After several hours of rest and recuperation, Hayel was able to manage a pusser’s cheese sandwich, and rang home to let his family know he was safe.He will be handed over to the Omani authorities in Salalah to be repatriated when the ship reaches port.
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Eigenlijk verandert er nooit iets op zee ...............
grjoep
http://steinmeijer.net
11.02.05 11:27
A sharp-eyed lookout in a Royal Fleet Auxiliary supply ship saved the life of a shipwrecked Yemeni fisherman – although the rescue came a day too late for the man’s companion.
While transiting the Red Sea, RFA Fort George
RFA Fort George
part of the Royal Navy’s MARSTRIKE 05 task group – spotted a fishing crate floating off her port bow early one morning, and on closer examination a man was seen in one of the compartments.
A seaboat from the French frigate FS Guepratte,
attached to the group, went across to pick up the 20-year-old man, Hayel Darabish Fartouk, who had been adrift for seven days and was suffering from dehydration and shock.
They also recovered the body of a second man, who had died the day before.
Having been given first aid by the French ship’s doctor, the man was transferred to the sick bay of task group flagship HMS Invincible using one of 820 Naval Air Squadron’s Merlin helicopters.
On board Invincible Hayel was able to communicate with Officer Cadet Hadi Chehaitly, a Lebanese officer under training with the Initial Sea Training Squadron from Britannia Royal Naval College, Dartmouth.
OC Chehaitly was able to discover that Hayel had been one of a 19-strong crew on a fishing boat which had sailed from Yemen two weeks previously.
After a week at sea it was caught in a storm, and although it ran for cover in the lee of an island it was swamped and capsized.
Hayel and his colleague managed to scramble into a crate used for storing ice, but they saw nothing of the other 17 crew members, including two of Hayel’s brothers.
After several hours of rest and recuperation, Hayel was able to manage a pusser’s cheese sandwich, and rang home to let his family know he was safe.He will be handed over to the Omani authorities in Salalah to be repatriated when the ship reaches port.
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Eigenlijk verandert er nooit iets op zee ...............
grjoep
http://steinmeijer.net
posted by Joep at 3:17 p.m.
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