This story is running on the regional BBC today and was a job that I was asked to cover late last week as an Editorial Photographer. A fascinating tale of a ship that got into difficulty off the Portland coast back in October 2011. They were asked to rest up an drop ancor but unfortunately drifted causing damage to a local fish farm. The resulting damage caused an injunction to be served and the boat was impounded. The German captain fled the ship and the country within days, leaving the remaining sailors behind.
Some of whom had not been paid for the last 10 months, and frightened to leave the ship incase they jeopodized their back pay. Now six months later it seems that the situation is drawing to a close, with the ship to be sold to pay the debts of the mooring, along with damages to the fish farm and should there be anything remaining, the sailors wages. The four remaining sailors will be leaving for their homelands of Turkey and Georgia later this week to see family that they have been separated from for up to a year and a half!
All along this difficult process the only assistance offered to the sailors has been through the charity ‘The Apostleship of the Sea‘, who have supplied food, a little money and most importantly hospitality and interraction with the outside world.
It was wonderful to meet everyone and learn about the great work undertaken by the Apostleship, along with seeing this particular story coming to its conclusion. I was asked to go onboard with Rev Roger Stone and to document the charities work for their internal magazine and press campaigns.
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