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The C Star is a research vessel of the British shipping company C Vessels. It sails under the flag of Mongolia .
history
The ship was built in 1975 as Suunta at the Finnish shipyard Rauma Rapola for the Finnish Maritime Administration. It was u. a. used to search for the Estonia, which sank in the Baltic Sea on the night of September 27th to 28th, 1994 .
The ship was rebuilt in 2012 and 2017. Since 2014 at the latest, it has been used in the Gulf of Aden to support units accompanying merchant ships to protect them from pirate attacks . The ship was sailing the Djibouti flag at the time . In 2017 it belonged to the shipping company C Vessels based in Cardiff , UK , which operated it under the Mongolian flag. Behind the shipping company is Sven Tomas Egerstrom, Managing Director of Maritime Global Services Ltd. The owner of the ship, Egerstrom, was accused of smuggling weapons worth over two million Swiss francs before 2015, according to the North Cypriot media. Egerstrom was previously the owner of Sea Patrol.
Defend Europe campaign
In 2017, activists from the Identitarian Movement chartered the ship for their Defend Europe campaign, with the aim of preventing refugees from coming to Europe across the Mediterranean . It has been reported repeatedly in the media.
On the way there, the ship came into conflict with the authorities of various countries. The ship was arrested and searched due to missing papers or allegations that Ukrainian mercenaries were on board. In Northern Cyprus, parts of the crew were temporarily arrested on suspicion of being a smuggler after 5 of the 20 crew members from Sri Lanka who were supposed to disembark in Egypt had applied for asylum.
On August 11, 2017, the ship sent a pan-pan message that the ship had an engine failure off Libya . The EUNAVFOR MED Operation Sophia in Rome ordered the ship Sea-Eye to assist the C Star, as this ship was the closest to the C Star . The Sea-Eye of the non-governmental organization Sea-Eye is a ship used by sea rescuers against which the crew of the C Star had previously demonstrated. The crew of the C Star refused to help and denied an emergency. According to data from the website marinetraffic.com, which shows ship movements around the world, the ship resumed its voyage on the same day.
The campaign ended on August 18, 2017, and the C Star headed for a position east of Malta . Its government refused the ship entry into Maltese ports, which was welcomed by the local human rights groups Aditus Foundation, Graffiti, Integra Foundation, the Jesuit Refugee Service (Malta) and The Critical Institute. The ship docked in Barcelona at the beginning of October 2017 . The Catalan Red Cross provided food and drink for the eight-man crew from Sri Lanka who were left on board without any resources or fuel . The activists of the Identitarian Movement were no longer on the ship.
Ship data
The ship is powered by diesel-electric technology . The electricity for the drive motor is effected by a Wärtsilä - diesel engine . The two diesel generators for generating electricity for the on-board network come from Scania .
The ship, which was used as a backup and supply ship for the offshore industry, has seven cabins for crew members . Six of the cabins are single cabins, one is a double cabin. There are also twelve single cabins on board that can be converted into double cabins.
The C Star has a range of around 3,000 nautical miles and can remain at sea for around 30 days as a security ship.
Web links
- Data sheet , C Vessels (PDF file, 496 kB) ( page no longer available )
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- ↑ Observations after the accident , Final report on the MV ESTONIA disaster of September 28, 1994, The Government of the Republic of Estonia, accessed July 28, 2017.
- ↑ Ioannis Chapsos, Paul Holtom: Stockpiles at Sea - Floating Armories in the Indian Ocean , Small Arms Survey 2015 (PDF file, 1 MB), accessed on July 28, 2017.
- ↑ Floating Armories - Implications and Risks ( Memento October 11, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) , Omega Research Foundation, Remote Control Project 2014 (PDF file, 2 MB), accessed on July 28, 2017.
- ^ Maritime Global Services Ltd at Endole (R).
- ↑ C Star owner denies ship will block rescue of migrants . In: TradeWinds | Latest shipping and maritime news . July 26, 2017 ( tradewindsnews.com [accessed July 27, 2017]).
- ↑ a b S. RF agencies / bisv; koua: SRF News: Off the Libyan coast - NGO has to help ship from right-wing extremist refugee opponents. August 11, 2017. Retrieved August 14, 2017 .
- ↑ a b Eyewitness report - On board the C-Star - Video log book Defend Europe 4. Retrieved on August 1, 2019 .
- ^ A b ZEIT ONLINE: Refugees: Campaign ship of the Identitarian Movement arrested . In: The time . July 27, 2017, ISSN 0044-2070 ( zeit.de [accessed August 1, 2019]).
- ↑ a b Identities suspected of being a smuggler. July 27, 2017, accessed August 1, 2019 .
- ^ Süddeutsche de GmbH, Munich Germany: Identity rent a boat - crew members apply for asylum. Retrieved August 1, 2019 .
- ↑ Mediterranean: Ship of the Identitarian Movement is unable to maneuver in the Mediterranean | TIME ONLINE. Retrieved August 12, 2017 .
- ↑ Radioeins: Identitarians in Need (interview) . In: sea-eye.org . August 12, 2017 ( sea-eye.org [accessed August 14, 2017]). Radioeins: Identitarians in Need (Interview) ( Memento from October 1, 2017 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Identity ship in distress? | Frankfurter Rundschau. Retrieved August 16, 2017 .
- ^ Right- wing “Identitarian Movement” ends action in the Mediterranean. Münchner Merkur from August 18, 2017
- ↑ NGOs praise decision to turn away C-Star anti-migrant ship. Malta Today 19 August 2017
- ↑ Dominik Schreiber: "Defend Europe": Identitarians let the crew down. Courier from October 5, 2017