Lifeline (ship)

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Lifeline
Lifeline with rescued people on board (June 21, 2018)
Lifeline with rescued people on board (June 21, 2018)
Ship data
flag See section #Controversy about the flag
other ship names

Sea-Watch 2
Clupea

Callsign PD8224
home port Amsterdam
Owner Mission Lifeline e. V.
Shipyard Hall, Russell & Company, Aberdeen
Build number 940
takeover 1968
Ship dimensions and crew
length
32.31 m ( Lüa )
width 7.92 m
Draft Max. 3.5 m
measurement 231 GT / 69 NRZ
 
crew 15th
Machine system
machine 1 × diesel engine
propeller 1
Others
Registration
numbers 		IMO 6825842

The Lifeline is a privately operated sea ​​rescue ship of the Mission Lifeline Association . In June 2018, both its missions in the Mediterranean and the question of whether the ship was right to fly the Dutch flag received considerable public attention.

history

Clupea off Scotland.

Clupea

The ship was built in 1968 under the hull number 940 at the Hall, Russell & Company shipyard in Aberdeen as a Clupea for the British Department of Agriculture & Fisheries for Scotland. The trawler based in Leith was used as a fisheries research ship. The ship was managed by Marr Vessel Management in Hull .

In 2008 the ship was sold to East Coast Charters in Lowestoft and rebuilt. In July 2009 it went to IDP International, also based in Lowestoft.

Sea-Watch 2

Sea-Watch 2 leaving the port of Hamburg

In 2015, the Sea-Watch association bought the ship and transferred it to Hamburg. At the Pella Sietas shipyard , activists converted it into a sea rescue ship. On March 18, 2016, it was renamed Sea-Watch 2 and then started to cross to Malta in the Mediterranean operational area . In 2016, the ship was also led by Carola Rackete as captain, who gained international fame in June and July 2019 through the decision as captain of Sea-Watch 3 with rescued refugees against a ban in Italy to call at Lampedusa. In the early summer of 2017, the association decided to sell the Sea-Watch 2 and buy a larger ship, the Dignity 1 .

The Sea-Watch 2 operated from the port of Valletta off the Libyan coast to find and supply refugee boats in distress. She usually returned to port every fortnight to replenish equipment and replace parts of the crew. The ship has been used in rescuing over 25,000 people.

Lifeline

Mission Lifeline logo

In 2017, the Mission Lifeline from Dresden , founded in 2016, collected 200,000 euros to buy the ship and renamed it Lifeline . It has been in use since September 2017.

Rescue operation off Libya

In November 2017, the Lifeline was involved in a rescue operation off the Libyan coast.

Captain Claus-Peter Reisch was awarded the 2018 Human Rights Prize by the Austrian League for Human Rights. The Mission Lifeline team and Captain Claus-Peter Reisch will receive the Lew Kopelew Prize in April 2019 . At the beginning of 2020 it was announced that Reisch no longer wanted to be a captain on the lifeline for the foreseeable future .

Declared "illegal" by Italy

Claus-Peter Reisch - captain of the lifeline

On June 21, 2018, the crew sighted two unseaworthy boats in international waters between four and five in the morning, reported this to the emergency control center in Rome and took 234 people on board. On June 21, 2018, the Italian Interior Minister Matteo Salvini ( Conte government ) described a current rescue operation of the Lifeline and the sea ​​fox as illegal because the crews had ignored the instructions of the responsible control center , which had given the Libyan coast guard the command of this rescue operation. In an interview with Die Zeit , the club's founder, Axel Steier, called the Libyan coast guard responsible for the rescue , because the Libyans had poorer equipment, were often further away and people would later be sent to prison camps.

The Lifeline later supported the container ship Alexander Mærsk in rescuing other people from distress at sea.

Italy refuses to dock in the port

Italy prevented the lifeline (like the Aquarius a few weeks earlier ) from docking in a port. Also Malta left the ship first, no port of the island start. There is a lack of clarity under maritime law here , as ships are obliged to take in people in distress, but states are generally not obliged to allow ships to enter with rescued persons on board.

Malta

Lifeline 2019 in the Grand Harbor of Malta

Malta's Prime Minister Joseph Muscat announced on June 23, 2018 that his country would supply the Lifeline with provisions. Malta finally made an entry permit dependent on European countries agreeing to accept the refugees. After these assurances were made, Muscat allowed the ship to call at a port in Malta on June 27. Malta, France, Italy, Portugal, Belgium, the Netherlands, Ireland and Luxembourg had previously indicated their willingness to accept. Muscat also announced that an investigation is being initiated against the German captain of the lifeline, Claus-Peter Reisch , because the activists have apparently switched off the transponder that transmits the ship's position several times. He will be allowed to leave Malta from July 16; the court lifted the ban on leaving the country. He must be back in Malta for the trial to continue on July 30th.

Controversy over the flag

Flag of the Sea-Watch 2 as it leaves the port of Hamburg for the Mediterranean

With reference to the flag state of the Lifeline and the Sea Fox , Interior Minister Salvini called on social media that the two ships should bring the rescued people to the Netherlands . In the opinion of Seline Trevisanut , who teaches maritime law at the University of Utrecht , although states are generally not obliged to bring boats with rescued persons on board, the flag state in particular is obliged to do so. However, the Representation of the Netherlands to the European Union stated that the two ships were not registered in the Netherlands. Italy's Transport Minister Toninelli announced the seizure of the ships for the purpose of a registration review .

The Netherlands stated that although the ship was registered with the Koninklijk Nederlands Watersportverbond , a sports association , this was no more than proof of ownership. On the other hand, there is no entry in the Dutch shipping register , and consequently no ship's certificate . The Dutch government stated that it did not see any need for action, since from its point of view the illegal flying of the Dutch flag did not result in any obligation for the Netherlands. The maritime lawyer Nele Matz-Lück from the Walther Schücking Institute at the University of Kiel assumed that the Dutch argument was correct.

Axel Steier from Mission Lifeline, on the other hand, argued that for boats under 500 t it was sufficient to register as a sport boat with the water sports association to fly the flag. Mission Lifeline is based on an opinion from the University of Leiden .

Movie

Filmmaker Markus Weinberg accompanied the Lifeline team with his camera for two years. The result is the documentary The Mission of the Lifeline , which will be premiered on February 25, 2019 in Graz . [outdated]

See also

Web links

Commons : IMO 6825842  - Collection of Images, Videos, and Audio Files

Individual evidence

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  2. ↑ a b Stephanie Millonig: Captain from Landsberg is stuck with 234 refugees off Malta. In: Augsburger Allgemeine. June 25, 2018. Retrieved June 28, 2018 .
  3. ↑ a b c "If there were contingents, Malta would let us in". Interview with Axel Steier. In: time online. June 24, 2018. Retrieved June 28, 2018 .
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  8. ↑ Annual report 2016–2017. Sea-Watch, 2017, p. 9.
  9. ↑ Markus Weinberg: Help for boat refugees in the Mediterranean Sea - Dresden sea rescue services for the first time with their own ship. (No longer available online.) In: mdr.de. September 17, 2017, archived from the original on June 16, 2018 ; accessed on June 23, 2018 . 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.mdr.de
  10. ↑ More than a thousand refugees rescued from Libya from the Mediterranean. In: The Standard. November 23, 2017. Retrieved June 23, 2018 .
  11. ↑ Human Rights Prize - Austrian League for Human Rights. Retrieved December 9, 2018 .
  12. ↑ Human rights award for the captain of the rescue ship . Deutschlandfunk.de , accessed on December 9, 2018.
  13. ↑ Dresden Sea Rescue Mission Lifeline receives Peace Prize. Retrieved February 15, 2019 .
  14. ^ Süddeutsche de GmbH, Munich Germany: Lew Kopelew Prize for. Süddeutsche Zeitung , February 14, 2019, accessed on August 13, 2020 .
  15. ↑ As: Captain Reisch no longer drives for "Lifeline". In: Spiegel Online. January 13, 2020, accessed January 13, 2020 .
  16. ↑ Situation on board the lifeline: “The huge fear - where are you going?” Interview by Raphael Thelen with Alina Watermann. In: Spiegel online. June 24, 2018. Retrieved June 25, 2018 .
  17. ↑ Malta says not responsible for Lifeline boat denied by Italy. In: aljazeera.com. June 22, 2018. Retrieved June 25, 2018 .
  18. ↑ a b c Italy migrant row: 'Inhumane' Malta refuses rescue ship. In: bbc.com. June 22, 2018. Retrieved June 25, 2018 .
  19. ↑ Another ship with migrants is waiting in front of Italy to enter the port. In: faz.net. June 24, 2018. Retrieved June 25, 2018 .
  20. ↑ a b Malta also refuses entry to the rescue ship “Lifeline”. In: welt.de. June 23, 2018, accessed June 25, 2018 .
  21. ↑ a b 'Nederlands' reddingsschip zit in juridisch niemandsland. In: nos.nl. Retrieved July 1, 2018 .
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  23. ^ Rescue ship in the Mediterranean "Lifeline" crew raises allegations. In: tagesschau.de. June 28, 2018. Retrieved June 28, 2018 .
  24. ↑ German "Lifeline" captain is allowed to leave Malta. In: faz.net. July 11, 2018, accessed July 11, 2018 .
  25. ↑ Italy's minister demands: "Arrest NGO crew". In: krone.at. June 22, 2018. Retrieved June 25, 2018 .
  26. ↑ Italy wants to confiscate ships from German refugee workers. In: welt.de. June 22, 2018. Retrieved June 23, 2018 .
  27. ↑ Seehofer sees no need to accept migrants. In: Welt.de. June 27, 2018, accessed June 27, 2018 .
  28. ↑ Malta vervolgt kapitein van Lifeline vanwege vlagkwestie. In: trouw.nl. Retrieved June 28, 2018 .
  29. ↑ Italië wil vluchtelingen nu toch aan land laten. In: tijd.be. Retrieved June 28, 2018 .
  30. ↑ Kiel expert on the law of the sea: The rescue ship 'Lifeline' is outlawed. In: welt.de. Retrieved July 5, 2018 .
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  32. ↑ World premiere: The Lifeline Mission