LE Roisin leaves Cork Harbour for Mediterranean
The Irish Naval Vessel will depart Haulbowline on a Humanitarian mission to aid migrants trying to access Europe.
The LE Roisin will set sail for the Mediterranean from Cork Harbour later today, to join Italian authorities in a search and rescue mission in the Mediterranean.
This departure will being the Irish Navy's first humanitarian mission of 2016.
The LE Roisin will be dispatched from Haulbowline Naval Base, with a crew of 60 personel under the command of Lieutenant Commander Ultan Finegan at noon today.
The International Organisation for Migration says 3,700 people died in the Mediterranean last year, which has seen a devastating spike in deaths in the past two years.
The Vessel will continue work carried out by the L.É. Eithne, L.É. Niamh, and L.É. Samuel Beckett, in 2015 during which over 8,000 migrants were rescued.
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