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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.
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.
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.
A sailor keeps watch aboard USS George H.W. Bush.. Watchkeeping or watchstanding is the assignment of sailors to specific roles on a ship to operate it continuously. These assignments, also known at sea as watches, are constantly active as they are considered essential to the safe operation of the vessel and also allow the ship to respond to emergencies and other situations quickly.
Zodiac Watches, or simply Zodiac, is an American [1] brand of Swiss-made watches founded in 1882 by Ariste Calame in Le Locle, Switzerland.The company mostly focuses on its dive watches through its Sea Wolf line, [2] one of the first modern dive watches, which debuted in 1953, before the Rolex Submariner and after Blancpain Fifty Fathoms. [3]
On 31 December 2014, Fort Worth was dispatched from Singapore to the Java Sea to take part in the search for Indonesia AirAsia Flight 8501 that crashed on 28 December. [ 34 ] [ 35 ] On 3 January 2015 she arrived in the area to commence search efforts alongside the destroyer USS Sampson at the request of the Indonesian government.
1066 and All That: A Memorable History of England, Comprising All the Parts You Can Remember, Including 103 Good Things, 5 Bad Kings and 2 Genuine Dates is a tongue-in-cheek reworking of the history of England.
Zeppelin LZ 104 (construction number, designated L 59 by the German Imperial Navy) and nicknamed Das Afrika-Schiff ("The Africa Ship"), was a World War I German dirigible.It is famous for having attempted a long-distance resupply mission to the beleaguered garrison of Germany's East Africa colony.