The Irish Navy vessel LÉ Samuel Beckett has reportedly rescued 242 people from a wooden barge off the coast Tripoli yesterday evening.
The crew on board the vessel along with the crew of the British Royal Navy’s HMS Enterprise, rescued 237 men and five women fro the wooden vessel after it got into difficulties about 80km off the Tripoli coast.
The rescue is the first made by the crew on board the LÉ Samuel Beckett which was deployed to the Mediterranean on 25 September.