Re: Nations sending ships to evacuate nationals from Lebanon?

"John Dallman" <jgd@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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The UK apparently has a couple of destroyers (/Gloucester/ and /York/,
both Type 42 Batch 3) off the coast of Lebanon. They don't have much
evacuation capability, but /Illustrious/ and /Bulwark/ are heading that
way and they have a fair bit of capacity. Illustrious, like the other
mini-carriers of her class can carry 600 marines, and Bulwark is rated
for 710 troops at overload. One can probably multiply those figures up a
bit for a short trip to Cyprus; I'm discounting the BBC's talk of "the
largest evacuation since Dunkirk".

Are the French, Italians, etc, sending anything?

Canada reportedly has 40,000 citizens (!? -- F*** me!) in Lebanon and is
chartering liners out of Cyprus as the basis of an evacuation. We have no
other assets in the area.

The lines to the embassy are tied up. I was talking to an Ottawa restauranteur
this morning, his relatives have left Beirut for their house in a village on
the Mountain. The telephone service there is cellular based since the civil
war and no one can get word in or out.
--
Andrew Chaplin
SIT MIHI GLADIUS SICUT SANCTO MARTINO
(If you're going to e-mail me, you'll have to get "yourfinger." out.)


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