{"id":10264,"date":"2021-04-29T13:44:31","date_gmt":"2021-04-29T11:44:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/?p=10264"},"modified":"2021-09-14T15:14:11","modified_gmt":"2021-09-14T13:14:11","slug":"10264-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/10264-2\/","title":{"rendered":"10,000 miles for 900 doses of vaccine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Royal Navy has delivered vaccine doses to the world's most remote community. HMS <span style=\"font-variant: small-caps;\">Forth<\/span> delivered 900 doses of AstraZeneca to the inhabitants of the tiny island of Tristan da Cunha, in the middle of the South Atlantic. The Royal Air Force first transported the drugs from RAF Brize Norton to Mount Pleasant in the Falkland Islands. Within an hour, the valuable cargo was transferred and safely stored in the belly of the <span style=\"font-variant: small-caps;\">Forth<\/span> into storage. The ship, which is permanently stationed in the Falkland Islands, was then able to set off on the 2500 nautical mile journey to Tristan da Cunha. The journey was challenging because the total distance of 5000 miles was close to the limit of the ship's capacity. <span style=\"font-variant: small-caps;\">Forth<\/span> and there is no possibility of replenishing fuel supplies along the way. Good planning, taking into account wind, sea and current, was therefore essential.<br \/>\nOnly the ship's doctor, Surgeon Lieutenant Commander Rory Goodenough, was allowed to bring the vaccine to the island. He followed in the footsteps of his grandfather, who had spent six months on the island as a botanist many years ago.<br \/>\nTristan da Cunha has neither an airport nor an unloading facility for ships in the harsh southern hemisphere winter. During the cold months, the 270 or so inhabitants of the island are cut off from the outside world. It was therefore important to deliver the medicine before the onset of winter. The <span style=\"font-variant: small-caps;\">Forth<\/span> was the first ship to call at the volcanic island in eight months and the Royal Navy's first in six years.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_13772\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-13772\" style=\"width: 548px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-13772 size-full\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Tristan-de-Cunha-2-mfo.jpg\" alt=\"Delivery of the valuable freight\" width=\"548\" height=\"826\" srcset=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Tristan-de-Cunha-2-mfo.jpg 548w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Tristan-de-Cunha-2-mfo-199x300.jpg 199w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 548px) 100vw, 548px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-13772\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Delivery of the valuable freight<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><em>Text: mb; Photos: Royal Navy<\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Die Royal Navy hat der entlegensten Gemeinde der Welt Impfdosen geliefert. HMS Forth \u00fcberbrachte 900 Dosen AstraZeneca an die Bewohner der winzigen Insel Tristan da Cunha, mitten im S\u00fcdatlantik. Die Royal Air Force transportierte zun\u00e4chst die Medikamente von RAF Brize Norton nach Mount Pleasant auf den Falklandinseln. Innerhalb einer Stunde wurde die wertvolle Fracht umgeschlagen [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":10262,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_oasis_is_in_workflow":0,"_oasis_original":0,"_oasis_task_priority":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[45,486,391,42],"tags":[491,1109,1110],"class_list":["post-10264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-marinen-aus-aller-welt-news","category-headlines","category-headlines-slider","category-news","tag-royal-navy","tag-tristan-da-cunha","tag-vakzin"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10264","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10264"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10264\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10262"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}