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Former Irish Naval Service patrol shop LÉ Aisling; Its new owner, Libyan warlord Khalifa Haftar, who has renamed the vessel ‘Dignity’.

This morning.

Further to the Irish Naval Service suspending its rescue missions in the Mediterranean earlier this year…

And its involvement in training the Libyan coastguard for the EU’s Operation Sophia in which asylum seekers fleeing Libya were being intercepted in the Mediterranean and being brought back to detention centres in Libya...

Colm Keena, in The Irish Times, reports:

In 2017, the State sold the decomissioned LÉ Aisling to a Dutch shipping broker for €110,000.

A year later, the Dutch company sold it to a company in United Arab Emirates for €473,000.

Almost immediately, the UAE company sold it to a company in Libya for €1.3million.

The vessel is now called Al Karama (Dignity), it’s been refitted with weapons and belongs to a “warlord” Khalifa Haftar.

Good times.

Libyan warlord paid €1.35m for ex-Irish Naval vessel sold by Ireland for €100,000 (Colm Keena, The Irish Times)

Previously: Meanwhile, On The Liffey

Pics: GalwayShips/Getty

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This morning.

Michael O’Riordan writes:

Further to your post earlier in the week. i got this shot of the LE Aisling sailing majestically past the Point Nua as she heads out to sea.
One of the reasons I like Aisling and her sister ships LE Deirdre, LE Emer and LE Aoife is they were built here in Ireland, in the Verolme dockyards [Cork]. I am subject to correction, but I think Aisling was the last ship built there before they closed. Soon, she will be the last of her sisters left in service. Fair winds and following seas!

Previously: Meanwhile, On The Liffey