Re: Nations sending ships to evacuate nationals from Lebanon?


Paul J. Adam wrote:

In message <memo.20060717201924.3744E@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, John Dallman
<jgd@xxxxxxxxx> writes

French and Italian evacs mentioned here:

http://tvnz.co.nz/view/page/411319/790791
http://tvnz.co.nz/view/page/425822/789280


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 they only going to pull British citizens out, or are we going to
offer a ride out to Commonwealth citizens and close family thereof?

NZ has asked to be included in the UK evac (only small numbers
involved, same order as no. of Brits in e.g. Bali evac).

Australia is organising their own charter. They have in the order of
25,000 citizens there, mainly dual-cits.
http://www.smh.com.au/news/national/australian-evacuees-arrive-in-jordan/2006/07/18/1153166348069.html

Cheers, Errol Cavit
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(Wine is sunlight held together by water.)
Attributed to Galileo Galilei

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