Saturday 12 January 2008

Yeah, thanks, US Navy


This weekend we had to cancel all public tours to the Africa Mercy, as the Port was on a heightened state of security because of the arrival of an unnamed ship. This morning, said ship arrived - HS2 "Swift" of the US Navy, a high-speed catamaran based in Texas. The ship wasn't in the port for long, but it completely disrupted the weekend's tours - most have been rescheduled for Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday of the coming week, but it has been a major embarrassment for Mercy Ships and us having to reschedule them - we had 55 people coming in a bus from South Tenerife Christian Fellowship plus many others from Silencio Christian Fellowship...Photo of the catamaran. Olly

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Pardon me for asking but would you have prefered receiving your guests or the supplies which the HSV-2 Swift was delivering?