{"id":248,"date":"2015-06-01T09:00:22","date_gmt":"2015-06-01T09:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/?p=248"},"modified":"2015-09-28T10:10:07","modified_gmt":"2015-09-28T10:10:07","slug":"hms-bulwark-saves-more-than-350-lives-in-rescue-mission-in-the-mediterranean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/2015\/06\/01\/hms-bulwark-saves-more-than-350-lives-in-rescue-mission-in-the-mediterranean\/","title":{"rendered":"HMS BULWARK SAVES MORE THAN 350 LIVES IN RESCUE MISSION IN THE MEDITERRANEAN"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2015\/09\/xlarge_HMS_Bulwark_Immigrants.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-249\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2015\/09\/xlarge_HMS_Bulwark_Immigrants.jpg\" alt=\"xlarge_HMS_Bulwark_Immigrants\" width=\"885\" height=\"447\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2015\/09\/xlarge_HMS_Bulwark_Immigrants.jpg 885w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2015\/09\/xlarge_HMS_Bulwark_Immigrants-300x152.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2015\/09\/xlarge_HMS_Bulwark_Immigrants-560x283.jpg 560w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2015\/09\/xlarge_HMS_Bulwark_Immigrants-260x131.jpg 260w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2015\/09\/xlarge_HMS_Bulwark_Immigrants-160x81.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 885px) 100vw, 885px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Nearly 370 people \u2013 50 of them children \u2013 were saved last week by HMS Bulwark in her third rescue of migrants in the Mediterranean.<br \/>\nJostling for space in their dangerously-overcrowded wooden craft, 369 refugees were rescued by HMS Bulwark &#8211; the lifesaving incident was one of five being played out at the same time off the Libyan coast as Europe\u2019s navies responded to the humanitarian crisis.<\/p>\n<p>The assault ship put five of her eight landing craft \u2013 each converted into a rescue boat, loaded with lifejackets, medical facilities and emergency supplies \u2013 to save one group of migrants from a boat located off the Libyan coast.<\/p>\n<p>Once they were safely aboard the amphibious assault ship \u2013 whose cavernous vehicle deck has been turned into a \u2018survivor reception facility\u2019 where food, water, medical assistance, clean clothes and bedding are available \u2013 Bulwark prepared to receive 368 more migrants picked up by German frigate FGS Hessen and the Irish Navy corvette L\u00c9 Eithne.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nearly 370 people \u2013 50 of them children \u2013 were saved last week by HMS Bulwark in her third rescue of migrants in the Mediterranean. Jostling for space in their dangerously-overcrowded wooden craft, 369 refugees were rescued by HMS Bulwark &#8211; the lifesaving incident was one of five being played out at the same time&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/2015\/06\/01\/hms-bulwark-saves-more-than-350-lives-in-rescue-mission-in-the-mediterranean\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">HMS BULWARK SAVES MORE THAN 350 LIVES IN RESCUE MISSION IN THE MEDITERRANEAN<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":249,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-on-watch","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=248"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":250,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248\/revisions\/250"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}