Sentence examples for migrant vessel from inspiring English sources

The migrant vessel rapidly sank, taking those below decks with it and tipping the rest into the black night sea.

Finally Mansur linked his small turquoise and orange boat to the migrant vessel to collect the women and children who had remained on board.

A merchant ship reported at 7 20 a.m. on Friday that the migrant vessel had capsized, the Italian Coast Guard said.

The distress call from the migrant vessel came late on Saturday night, when the Italian coastguard was called by someone who said: "We're at sea, help us".

The Italian coastguard said it was highly probable that not more than one person in 20 aboard the ill-fated migrant vessel had survived.

"They were all covered in fuel; they were slipping out of our hands," recalled Domenico Colapinto, a fisherman who was one of the first to reach the scene of the migrant vessel sinking off Lampedusa on Thursday.

The ministerial meeting comes as more rag-tag migrant vessels arrive at Italy's shores.

Charities had warned that spring would see more migrant vessels but that Frontex would not be able to cope.

Helicopters spotted a number of migrant vessels – often in poor visibility – allowing boats from HMS Bulwark to get to them.

But, said Catrambone, the Italians and Maltese still depended largely on commercial vessels to alert them to migrant vessels in distress.

Barroso said the EU parliament would vote on a plan to build up a Mediterranean-wide search and patrol network to assist rickety, overloaded, migrant vessels.