Asociación Honoraria de Salvamentos Marítimos y Fluviales
The Asociación Honoraria de Salvamentos Maritimos y Fluviales (ADES), founded in 1955, is a national sea rescue service based in Montevideo (Uruguay). The aim of the organization is to be able to provide aid to shipwrecked people and those in distress along the country's more than 650 kilometers long coast on the Río de la Plata and the South Atlantic .
The reason for the founding of this non-governmental organization was a number of shipping accidents in Uruguayan territorial waters in 1954 and 1955. It was finally founded on July 23, 1955, following the example of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI), with which the company maintains good, friendly relationships. In May of the following year, the organization was given its own legal personality . Financed by donations, the ADES 1 was acquired in 1957, the first lifeboat . ADES is an active member of the International Maritime Rescue Federation (IMRF). The president of the organization, which had five rescue stations on the Uruguayan coast in 2013, is Guillermo Pérez Lavagnini (as of December 2013).
In 1985 ADES took over the decommissioned German rescue cruiser Ruhr-Stahl of the German Society for Rescue of Shipwrecked People (DGzRS), which has meanwhile also been decommissioned there. In 2006 and 2007 she also took over the former lifeboats Hörnum and Arthur Menge , also from the DGzRS. The complete rescue fleet includes five lifeboats built from 1971 to 1983 with a closed driver's cab from British origin and several rigid inflatable boats.
All ADES emergency services work on a voluntary basis and, with the exception of one office worker, there are no permanent employees. ADES is financed by a government grant as well as sponsors and donations.
Rescue stations
ADES maintains rescue stations in the following port cities:
- Puerto del Buceo lifeboat ADES 16 as well as inflatables
- Puerto de Colonia lifeboat ADES 14 and rubber boats
- Punta del Este lifeboat ADES 12 as well as inflatable boats
- Puerto de Carmelo lifeboat ADES 7 , ADES 17
- Puerto Sauce lifeboat ADES 13 as well as inflatables
See also
Web links
- Official website of ADES ( in Spanish )
Individual evidence
- ↑ Piratas del Río de la Plata (Spanish) at www.montevideo.com.uy, accessed on December 27, 2013
- ↑ Full Members ( Memento of the original from July 3, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , www.international-maritime-rescue.org, accessed July 3, 2018.
- ↑ Quienes somos ..? ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (Spanish), accessed December 27, 2013
- ↑ Piratas del Río de la Plata (Spanish) at www.montevideo.com.uy, accessed on December 27, 2013
