Navy Helps Put Out Fireplace On Missile-Hit Service provider Ship Carrying 22 Indians

The hearth was brough beneath management after six hours.

New Delhi:

A fireplace-fighting group from an Indian Navy warship extinguished an enormous blaze onboard a service provider vessel on Saturday night time after it was struck by a missile within the Gulf of Aden.

INS Visakhapatnam responded to a SOS name from service provider vessel Marlin Launda after it was focused by a missile on Saturday. The oil tanker had 22 Indians and one Bangladeshi nationwide on board.

Fireplace onboard MV #MarlinLuanda introduced beneath management

Primarily based on request from Grasp of the MV, the hearth preventing group from #INSVisakhapatnam comprising 10 Indian Naval personnel with specialist hearth preventing tools embarked the vessel in early hours of #27Jan 24.
After six… https://t.co/d5yxgWI42Ypic.twitter.com/RsLPKOpXTU

— SpokespersonNavy (@indiannavy) January 27, 2024

In an announcement, the Indian Navy mentioned {that a} group of 10 firefighters introduced the hearth beneath management after six hours. “Fireplace onboard MV #MarlinLuanda introduced beneath management. After six hours of battling the hearth together with the crew of the MV, the hearth preventing group has efficiently introduced the hearth beneath management. The group is at present monitoring the scenario to rule out any chance of reignition,” the Navy mentioned, including {that a} US and French warship additionally responded to the vessel’s misery name. 

The Navy additionally shared a video of the service provider ship’s captain thanking the warship’s personnel for responding to the SOS name. “I thank Indian Navy warship INS Visakhapatnam. We had misplaced all hope of preventing this hearth. Hats off to Indian Navy whose specialists got here onboard to combat the hearth. Indian Navy went out of the way in which to assist us,” Abhilash Rawat, captain of the service provider vessel mentioned.

The US Central Command (CENTCOM) mentioned that the vessel, owned by a UK-based firm, was hit by a ballistic missile fired by Yemen’s Houthi rebels. The group has been concentrating on service provider vessels within the Crimson Sea amid the raging Israel-Hamas battle. 

On January 18, INS Visakhapatnam had responded to an analogous misery name by one other service provider vessel with Indian crew which was attacked by drones. Liberian-flagged MV Chem Pluto, with 21 Indian crew members, was the goal of a drone assault off India’s west coast on December 23.