Alan Kurdi (ship)

Alan Kurdi,[1] named after the drowned Syrian child of Kurdish origin, Alan Kurdi, is a ship which has been used since 2018 by the humanitarian organization Sea-Eye - under the German flag - and latterly the Italian humanitarian NGO, 'ResQ - People Saving People' for the rescue of migrants in the Mediterranean Sea. Before this, she was an oceanographic vessel operated by the Land of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, named Professor Albrecht Penck.

Construction

The ship was built in 1951 at the Sachsenberg-Werke [de] shipyard. She was launched on 4 June 1951 and completed in September 1951. The ship was part of a construction program for the Soviet Union's war indemnity requirements. However, the ship remained in the GDR, becoming their first research vessel.

Use as a hydrographic vessel

Professor Albrecht Penck in Stralsund, 2008

Originally put into service as a hydrographic vessel under the name Joh L. Krueger (after mathematician Johann Heinrich Louis Krüger), the vessel was owned by the Maritime Hydrographic Service of the GDR (SHD). On January 1, 1960, the Institute of Oceanography, where Joh L. Krueger was based, was replaced by the German Academy of Sciences at Berlin. With this change, the ship was renamed Professor Albrecht Penck (after the second director of the Institute and Museum of Oceanography in Berlin).

The GDR used the ship for research trips in the North and Baltic Seas. In 1962, the first East German Spitsbergen expedition took place, with Professor Albrecht Penck, then in 1964 she was used for the first GDR expedition to the Atlantic.

After German reunification, the ship was demobilized by the dissolution of the Academy of Sciences of the GDR, which belonged to the state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. In 1992, the Leibniz Institute for Baltic Sea Research in Warnemünde was established. The ship, which spent around 200 days a year at sea, was now mainly used in the western Baltic Sea. She was equipped with a research winch and had four laboratories (wet, chemical, biotechnological and IT).

Plans for educational use

On August 21, 2010, the vessel was decommissioned. The plan was to bring her to Stralsund and leave her at the Nautineum Stralsund museum for use. The state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern deviated from this plan and offered the ship for sale, believing that funding for the use of the museum was not secure. She was then acquired through a tendering process by the Krebs Group,[clarification needed] which agreed in March 2011 to cooperate with the Stralsund Ozeaneum for the use of the vessel. Subsequently, the ship was to be used in winter for "maritime education courses" and "research trips for student classes". She would also be used as a working platform for offshore wind turbine maintenance teams. The Krebs Group, which bought the vessel in 2011, used her for work on offshore wind farms and for environmental monitoring.

Acquisition by the humanitarian organization Sea-Eye

In autumn 2018, the ship was sold to the non-governmental organization Sea-Eye,[2] which uses her as a rescue boat for refugees and migrants in distress in the Mediterranean Sea.

As a rescue vessel with Sea-Eye

On 21 December 2018, she left the port of Algeciras for Libya. According to Sea-Eye, she was the first ship of a civilian relief organization to fly the German flag. On Sunday 10 February 2019, the father of the young Alan Kurdi named the ship in the presence of religious and political representatives, such as the Bishop of Mallorca Sebastià Taltavull i Anglada, in the port of Palma, on behalf of his drowned son.

On 3 April 2019, the Alan Kurdi[3] rescued 64 people from a dinghy off the Libyan coast after Libyan authorities responded to radio messages. Italian Interior Minister Matteo Salvini refused to disembark the population on the pretext that the ship was flying the German flag. Activists rejected the request to travel to Germany. Due to lack of food and clean water for the three to four week trip, the refugees were brought to Malta after an agreement was reached on 13 April [4] from where they were distributed to Germany, France, Portugal, Luxembourg and the United Kingdom.

At the beginning of July 2019, shortly after the start of a conflict between the rescue vessel Sea-Watch 3 and the Italian authorities, the crew decided to approach the search and rescue area located off the Libyan coast, with a Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung journalist on board. On 5 July 2019, 65 people were brought aboard the Alan Kurdi off the Libyan coast, from an inflatable boat. They came from twelve different countries, 48 from Somalia, 6 from Sudan, the others from Libya, Cameroon, South Sudan, Mali, Nigeria, Benin, Benin, Ivory Coast and Guinea-Bissau. Without a GPS-enabled phone or other navigation aid, there was apparently only ten litres of potable water left on the dinghy, which had already been at sea for 12 hours. Alan Kurdi's attempts to contact Libyan authorities as well as Italian rescue command centers were unsuccessful, according to Sea-Eye. The ship headed for Lampedusa and awaited in international waters off the Italian coast. After the Italian Ministry of the Interior had sent instructions, the vessel was refused entry to the port of Lampedusa. Alan Kurdi headed for Malta. With entry into the port of the island initially prohibited, the crew nevertheless hoped to obtain clearance to moor, in line with international aid commitments. On 7 July 2019, the ship was cleared to hand over all migrants to Maltese ships after the crew reported three medical emergencies on board.

Shortly after the ship left the waters off Malta on 8 July 2019, the crew recovered 44 people traveling on a wooden boat. They came from Libya, Syria, Palestine and Pakistan. Again, the crew had to hand the migrants over to the Maltese Coast Guard. The crew then decided to initially end their operations in the Mediterranean.[5] Despite that, on 4 August 2019 she disembarked 40 migrants in Malta.[6]

On April 6, 2020, during the COVID-19 pandemic, she rescued 150 migrants and headed for the Italian coast for them to be transferred to another boat which was quarantined with the support of the Red Cross.[7]

Change of ownership, 2021

In 2021, Sea-Eye acquired another ship, the Sea-Eye 4. The organisation then passed on the smaller Alan Kurdi, to the Spanish organisation Proem-Aid.[8] In May 2021, the vessel had been released from detention in Olbia and was reported to be headed for Burriana for scheduled maintenance.[9]

In July 2021, the Italian humanitarian NGO, 'RESQ - People Saving People' announced that they had acquired and were preparing to start operating the Alan Kurdi, now renamed RESQ PEOPLE.[10] Sea-Eye had sold the Alan Kurdi for 400,000 Euros; during their time operating the boat, Sea-Eye claimed it had saved 927 lives.[11]

As RESQ PEOPLE

After an extensive overhaul, RESQ PEOPLE sailed from the port of Burriana on 7 August 2021 to start a first rescue mission.[10][12] On the first mission the team rescued initially 85 people,[13] and subsequently 81 more before docking at Syracuse with 166 refugees aboard.[14] On 15 October, at the end of their second mission, they disembarked 58 rescued persons at Pozzallo.[15]

References

  1. ^ "Alan Kurdi: Deutsches Rettungsschiff nach totem Flüchtlingskind benannt" [Alan Kurdi: German rescue ship named after dead refugee child]. Der Spiegel (in German). 10 February 2019. Retrieved 29 November 2023.
  2. ^ Anton, Julia; Az-Zawiya, vor; Rüb, Matthias (2019-07-05). "Rettungsschiff im Mittelmeer: Auch die "Alan Kurdi" nimmt Kurs auf Lampedusa" [Rescue ship in the Mediterranean: The "Alan Kurdi" is also heading for Lampedusa]. FAZ. ISSN 0174-4909. Retrieved 2019-08-06.
  3. ^ "Italy Rebuffs Ship with 64 Migrants Rescued in Sea Off Libya". Voice of America. Retrieved 2019-08-06.
  4. ^ "Migrant ship with 64 people denied safe port by Italy and Malta". The Guardian. Associated Press. 2019-04-04. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2019-08-06.
  5. ^ Ben Ehrenreich (17 October 2019). "Sea of Troubles". newrepublic.com. Retrieved 6 June 2021.
  6. ^ "Quarante migrants autorisés à débarquer à Malte après un accord européen" [Forty migrants authorised to land at Malta following a European agreement]. Le Monde. 2019-08-04. Retrieved 2019-08-04.
  7. ^ Tondo, Lorenzo (8 April 2020). "Italy declares own ports 'unsafe' to stop migrants arriving". The Guardian. Retrieved 15 March 2024.
  8. ^ "ProemAID MEDITERRÁNEO". www.proemaid.org. Retrieved 24 May 2021.
  9. ^ "RESQ PEOPLE, Cargo Ship". www.vesseltracker.com. 6 May 2021. Retrieved 28 July 2021.
  10. ^ a b "ABBIAMO LA NAVE! VI PRESENTIAMO LA RESQ PEOPLE!" [We have a ship! Presenting the 'RESQ PEOPLE'!]. resq.it. 20 July 2021. Retrieved 26 July 2021.
  11. ^ "Mittelmeer:Sea-Eye verkauft Rettungsschiff "Alan Kurdi"" [Mediterranean Sea: Sea-Eye sells rescue ship "Alan Kurdi"]. www.sueddeutsche.de. 19 July 2021. Retrieved 28 July 2021.
  12. ^ "Migrants, the first humanitarian mission of ResQ People is underway. Scalettari and Colombo: "Every life is precious. And it must be saved and helped"". www.italy24news.com. Retrieved 8 August 2021.
  13. ^ "ONG ResQ People rescata a 85 migrantes en el Mediterráneo" [NGO ResQ People rescues 85 migrants in the Mediterranean]. www.dw.com. 13 August 2021. Retrieved 16 August 2021.
  14. ^ "ResQ People docks in Sicily with 166 migrants aboard". www.infomigrants.net. 18 August 2021. Retrieved 3 October 2021.
  15. ^ "La nostra seconda missione" [Our second mission]. resq.it. October 2021. Retrieved 11 December 2021.

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