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Proactiva Open Arms (POA) is a Spanish NGO devoted to search and rescue (SAR) at sea. Set up in October 2015, it carried out its first rescue action that same month from its base on the Greek island of Lesbos. [1]
The conn, also spelled con, cun, conne, cond, conde, and cund, is the status of being in control of a ship's movements while at sea. The following quote summarizes the use of the term: The following quote summarizes the use of the term:
The trainerilla (Spanish for 'little trainera') has a crew of 6 rowers and one cox, all sitting in a row. The batel or chipironier is a smaller boat used close to the coast for a variety of fish, with 4 rowers and a cox. The bateliku [10] is a smaller boat used close to the coast for a variety of fish, with 3 rowers and a cox. [11]
Vigía, along with Civil Guard and Maritime Rescue Service boats, captured a total of 94 boats with 920 immigrants aboard, of which Vigía rescued 6 boats and 48 people. [4] In 2020, the ship took part in a search to find a missing sailor from a sunken fishing ship in the Alboran Sea .
Similar problems existed for the German Lufthansa on the same run, but while Lufthansa opted for a stationary, flying boat tender, the Westphalen, with catapult and lifting crane in the middle of the Atlantic to extend the range of their Dornier flying boats, Aeropostale initially relied on avisos to carry the mail on the transatlantic stretch ...
The primary 3-inch gun of Atalaya. Atalaya is an offshore patrol vessel with a displacement of 1,200 tons. It is 68 m (223 ft 1 in) long, has a beam of 10 m (32 ft 10 in), and a draught of 3 m (9 ft 10 in).
Juan Sebastián de Elcano is a training ship of the Spanish Navy.It is a four-masted topsail, steel-hulled barquentine (schooner barque).At 113 metres (371 ft) long, it is the third-largest tall ship in the world, and is the sailing vessel that has sailed the furthest, covering more than 2,000,000 nautical miles (3,700,000 km; 2,300,000 mi) in its lifetime.
The Meteoro-class offshore patrol vessel, also known as Buque de Acción Marítima (BAM), are modular offshore patrol vessels of the Spanish Navy adapted to different purposes from a common base, manufactured by Navantia. The BAMs combine high performance with mission versatility, a high commonality with other ships operated by the Spanish Navy.