List Of Ships For The Rescue Of Refugees In The Mediterranean Sea
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Migrant and
refugee A refugee, conventionally speaking, is a displaced person who has crossed national borders and who cannot or is unwilling to return home due to well-founded fear of persecution.
rescue ships that operate in the
Mediterranean Sea The Mediterranean Sea is a sea connected to the Atlantic Ocean, surrounded by the Mediterranean Basin and almost completely enclosed by land: on the north by Western and Southern Europe and Anatolia, on the south by North Africa, and on the ea ...
taking part in the rescue of people endangered when attempting to
migrate Migration, migratory, or migrate may refer to: Human migration * Human migration, physical movement by humans from one region to another ** International migration, when peoples cross state boundaries and stay in the host state for some minimum le ...
across the Mediterranean to
Europe Europe is a large peninsula conventionally considered a continent in its own right because of its great physical size and the weight of its history and traditions. Europe is also considered a Continent#Subcontinents, subcontinent of Eurasia ...
are often run by NGOs. They are variously chartered, donated, or bought specifically for the purpose of rescue.


List

This sortable table is by default listed in order of the vessels' names:


Further related facilities

Since 2017, Sea-Watch have operated a SAR-coordinating reconnaissance aircraft, '' Moonbird'', a single-engined Cirrus SR22, and since June 2020, also the ''
Seabird Seabirds (also known as marine birds) are birds that are adapted to life within the marine environment. While seabirds vary greatly in lifestyle, behaviour and physiology, they often exhibit striking convergent evolution, as the same enviro ...
'', a twin-engined high-performance
Beechcraft Baron 58 The Beechcraft Baron is a light twin-engined piston aircraft designed and produced by Beechcraft. The aircraft was introduced in 1961. A low-wing monoplane developed from the Travel Air, it remains in production. Design and development The d ...
. These are flown in cooperation with the Swiss NGO Humanitarian Pilots Initiative. In December 2020, Association Pilotes Volontaires began operation of their
Dyn'Aéro MCR4S The Dyn'Aéro MCR4S is a four-seat development of the French two seat, single engine Dyn'Aéro MCR01. It first flew in early 2000 and is sold as a kit for homebuilding in several versions by SE Aviation of Pontarlier.Tacke, Willi; Marino Boric; e ...
reconnaissance aircraft named '' Colibri 2''. Their original ''Colibri'', of the same make, flew its first mission in May 2018. As of June 2019, they had logged 52 missions, sighting 54 boats and by their estimates saving more than 4,300 people.


Further related organisations

For a period, the Search and Rescue Observatory for the Mediterranean (
SAROBMED SAROBMED, the Search and Rescue Observatory for the Mediterranean, was a consortium of researchers, civil society groups, and other organisations with interests in the field of cross-border maritime migration. The focus was in particular on provid ...
), based at Queen Mary University of London, monitored
SAR SAR or Sar may refer to: Places * Sar (river), Galicia, Spain * Sar, Bahrain, a residential district * Sar, Iran (disambiguation), several places in Iran * Sar, Tibet, Tibet Autonomous Region of China * Šar Mountains, in southeastern Europe ...
operations in the region. SAROBMED in turn listed a number of other organisations, including (in addition to those mentioned above): * Alarm Phone * Borderline Europe * Equal Rights *
The AIRE Centre The AIRE Centre (Advice on Individual Rights in Europe) is an English registered charity, with offices located in London. It provides free legal advice on human rights and EU law issues in Europe, and seeks to promote the dissemination of informat ...
In conjunction with Alarm Phone, Watch the Mediterranean Sea monitors deaths and violations of migrants' rights at the maritime borders of the EU via an online mapping platform. The German-based international movement Seebrücke has campaigned since 2018 for the humanitarian rights for people to migrate.


Organisations with future plans

As of May 2021, the Italian group '
RESQ (people saving people) ResQ-People Saving People is an Italian NGO with the aim of improving the lot of refugees and migrants attempting to cross the Mediterranean Sea to Italy. It was formed in Milan and from an early stage aspired to support a rescue ship sailing off t ...
' had been working on plans to fund and start operating a further rescue ship. In July 2021 they announced their acquisition of the ''Alan Kurdi'', which was renamed '' ResQ PEOPLE''; they began preparing the ship for new rescue operations. ''RESQ PEOPLE'' sailed from Borriana on 7 August 2021 to start rescue missions in the central Mediterranean.


See also

*
Environmental migrant Environmental migrants are people who are forced to leave their home region due to sudden or long-term changes to their local or regional environment. These changes compromise their well-being or livelihood, and include increased drought, deserti ...
*
European migration crisis The 2015 European migrant crisis, also known internationally as the Syrian refugee crisis, was a period of significantly increased movement of refugees and Human migration, migrants into Europe in 2015, when 1.3 million people came to the cont ...
*
List of migrant vessel incidents on the Mediterranean Sea This article is a list of migrant vessel incidents on the Mediterranean Sea. The incidents have been referred to as part of the European migrant crisis. Prior to 2015 2015 2015 summary The number of reported deaths of migrants cros ...


National and international operations

* Operation Mare Nostrum *
Operation Triton Operation Triton was an operation conducted by Frontex, the European Union's border security agency. The operation, under Italian control, began on 1 November 2014 and ended on 1 February 2018 when it was replaced by Operation Themis. It involve ...
* Operation Themis * Operation Sophia


References

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Die Zeit ''Die Zeit'' (, "The Time") is a German national weekly newspaper published in Hamburg in Germany. The newspaper is generally considered to be among the German newspapers of record and is known for its long and extensive articles. History The ...
, date=2017-07-19 , url=https://www.zeit.de/politik/ausland/2017-07/seenotrettung-mittelmeer-fluechtlinge-boote-ngos-marine , access-date=2018-06-22 {{Cite web , url=https://fra.europa.eu/en/publication/2020/december-2020-update-ngo-ships-involved-search-and-rescue-mediterranean-and-legal#TabPubTable1-NGOshipsinvolvedinSARoperations1 , title=December 2020 update - NGO ships involved in search and rescue in the Mediterranean and legal proceedings against them , date=18 December 2020 , website=European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights, fra.europa.eu , access-date=18 May 2021
Refugee rescue Refugee Rescue is a charitable Non-Governmental Organisation based in Northern Ireland which operates the rescue vessel '' Mo Chara'' from the North Shore of Lesvos, Greece, covering parts of the Aegean Sea. It also fulfills a coastguard role alo ...
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