This convoy carried 20 passengers & 24 drivers & assistant drivers.
Oregon State Police and the Hostage Rescue Team decided to arrest Finicum and some of the occupation's other leaders on a rural stretch of highway away from the wildlife refuge as he led a two-truck convoy filled with passengers.
Ordering the ship to be abandoned, Maxwell gave the ship's barge to the ambassador and supervised the construction of a raft which, with the remaining boats, safely convoyed the crew, passengers and a quantity of supplies to a nearby island, formed largely of impenetrable mangrove swamps.
The die was cast: the hides were abandoned until a later convoy of less stubborn passengers.
The convoy of ships, whose passengers included writers, politicians and journalists, had been expected for weeks, with organisers loudly broadcasting their plans to run Israel's blockade of the Gaza Strip and draw international attention to the situation there.
A six-vessel convoy, led by the passenger ship Mavi Marmara, sailing under the Turkish flag, was stopped by Israeli commandos in international waters as it headed toward Gaza with what activists described as emergency-relief cargo to help Gaza's Palestinian population cope with an Israeli-imposed embargo.
The departed convoy had left with another passenger ship, the City of Benares, and several days out, the passenger ship was torpedoed.
Named the Freedom Flotilla, and led by the pro-Palestinian Free Gaza Movement and a Turkish organization, Insani Yardim Vakfi, the convoy of six cargo and passenger boats is the most ambitious attempt yet to break Israel's three-year blockade of Gaza.
The officers and their families living in Varaždin, as well as approximately 450 soldiers who wanted to leave Croatia were transported to Serbia in a convoy comprising twelve buses and several passenger cars.
Would passengers feel comfortable travelling in convoy?
