GERMAN WARSHIP F264

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German corvette saved 121 migrants

On Mar 6, 206, the "Ludwigshafen" rescued 121 migrants from a distressed boat. The corvette responded alongside Spain’s “Numancia” frigate to a distress callin the early morning20 miles northwest of Tripoli. The 121 rescued people, among them seven women, have been handed to the EU’s Frontex external border agency.

Corvette saved 128 migrants and sank rubber boat

The "Ludwigshafen" saved 128 distressed migrants 80 kilometers NW of Tripolis on Feb 23, 2016, from a rubber boat and recovered one dead body from it which was transferred as well as the castaways, among them nine women and two children, onto the Italian patrol boat "Cigala Fulgosi" which also took on board the remainder on the rubber boat. The dead had boarded the boat in Libya already seriously ill and died underway. The rubber boat was sunk as a navigational hazard by the "Ludwigshafen" once the castaways were safe.

Ludwigshafen assisted grounded motor yacht

On May 13, 2014, the "Ludwigshafen" while being enroute to an anchorage off Neustadt, received a mayday call of the motor yacht "Calypso" which had run aground in the Lübeck Bight. The corvette headed eastward and took over the on scene command in coordination with the MRCC Bremen. Also a police boat and a lifeboat from Travemünde attended, but had too much draught to reach the "Calypso". The "Ludwigshafen" launched a speedboat which established a towing connection to the lifeboat which pulled the yacht off and towed it to Travemünde. German report with photo: http://www.hl-live.de/aktuell/textstart.php?id=91405