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Houthi terrorists attacked three vessels

Over the course of Nov 30, 2024, and Dec 30, the two U.S. Navy destroyers USS 'Stockdale' and USS 'O'Kane' shot down half a dozen Houthi-launched munitions while escorting the tanker 'Stena Impeccable', the container m/v 'Maersk Saratoga' and the 'Liberty Grace'. through the Gulf of Aden. The destroyers shot down three anti-ship ballistic missiles, three attack drones and one anti-ship cruise missile over the course of the two days. All three vessels were in port at Djibouti on Dec 2.

Response to sick crew man in the middle of the Indian Ocean

A US Air Force team based in Africa rescued a British citizen who had suffered a heart attack on board the ÄLiberty Grace', en route from Durban to Djibouti, in the Indian Ocean, about 500 nautical miles off the coast of Kenya,on Nov 13, 2021. A team of five US Air Force pararescuemen were deployed. Once they reached the cargo ship, they rappelled down to the ship and stabilized him. The pararescumen stayed on board the ship overnight to keep the man stable as the vessel moved closer to the Africa shoreline. The ship transited within 150 nautical miles of the Manda Bay Airfield in Kenya overnight. Two Super Pumas were then deployed and flew the man as well as the pararescuemen to the Manda Bay Airfield in Kenya. After they made it to the airfield, a separate aircraft, a DHC-8 airplane, transported the man to a hospital in Nairobi. Report with photo: https://edition.cnn.com/2021/11/16/politics/us-air-force-rescue-mission/index.html

Sick crew member medevaced in Bermuda

The "Liberty Grace" was set to arrive off the east end of Bermuda on Oct 16, 2018, to transfer a 67-year-old male crew member who has been suffering from unexplained dizziness. The ship was on route from Galveston, Texas bound for Malta in the Mediterranean. The transfer via the pilot/rescue boat "St. David" took place at 5 p.m. for onward evacuation to King Edward VII Memorial Hospital.