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Sea-Watch is a former 21.12-meter (69 ft 3 in) fishing ship. Built in 1917 [39] and purchased in 2015, Sea-Watch used her in 2015 until she was transferred later that year to the organisation Mare Liberum, receiving the name Mare Liberum. Sea-Watch 2 is a former fishing research ship, originally entering service as Clupea in 1968.
Sea-Watch on its first mission. The Mare Liberum is a ship operated privately by the Berlin-based human rights organization of the same name. Mare Liberum e.V. has been monitoring human rights in the Aegean Sea since 2018. Until 2018, the ship was used as Sea-Watch for the "Sea-Watch e.V." association. The ship is operated under the German flag.
In November 2018, a joint campaign was launched by Proactive Open Arms, SOS Méditerranée and Sea-Watch, which used Open Arms, Mare Jonio and Sea-Watch 3, along with the Moonbird aircraft, to continue with the rescue of refugees in the Mediterranean. This followed after a few weeks during which the states had prevented them from acting in ...
In 2017, the Sea-Watch Association took over the ship, replacing the smaller Sea-Watch 2. Pia Klemp was a short-term member of the crew. [6] [7] On 6 November 2017, several people died in an incident at sea. They fell or jumped into the water when the Sea Watch 3 and a Libyan boat got in each other's way while rescuing castaways.
The 103 series (103系, 103-kei) is a DC electric multiple unit (EMU) commuter train type introduced in 1963 [2] by Japanese National Railways (JNR), and currently operated by West Japan Railway Company (JR West) and Kyushu Railway Company (JR Kyushu).
On 31 January 2020, Sea-Watch e.V., with the support of the United4Rescue alliance and the Evangelical Church in Germany, bought the ship for around 1.547 million euros, [11] for use to rescue migrants from distress in the Mediterranean. [1] The ship was renamed on 20 February 2020 as Sea-Watch 4.
In the 1980s the RNLI's Arun and Waveney all-weather lifeboats provided coverage 30 miles (48 km) out to sea, operating at up to 18 knots (33 km/h) to cover the distance in two hours in good weather. However the RNLI felt that they needed the capability to extend their coverage to 50 miles (80 km) radius which would require lifeboats with a top ...
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