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28th March 2021

Sailors from Indonesia Stranded in Dún Laoghaire Harbour Repatriated

Sailors from Indonesia were accompanied to Dublin Airport by a garda escort following the trawler, Magan D which was towed to Dun Laoghaire Harbour early last month, after drifting for days in the Irish Sea because of engine failure.

Indonesian sailors stranded on a trawler in Dún Laoghaire Harbour since early March, as Afloat reported, are on their way home after their repatriation terms were agreed.

The 14 sailors left the Magan D shortly before 8am and were accompanied to Dublin Airport by a garda escort.

The Spanish-owned British registered trawler was towed into Dún Laoghaire three weeks ago after drifting for several days in the Irish Sea because of engine failure.

It was detained by the UK Maritime and Coastguard Agency

The Indonesian crew had been working on the ship since July last year but had not been paid since January.

William M Nixon has been writing about sailing in Ireland and internationally for many years, with his work appearing in leading sailing publications on both sides of the Atlantic. He has been a regular sailing columnist for four decades with national newspapers in Dublin, and has had several sailing books published in Ireland, the UK, and the US. An active sailor, he has owned a number of boats ranging from a Mirror dinghy to a Contessa 35 cruiser-racer, and has been directly involved in building and campaigning two offshore racers. His cruising experience ranges from Iceland to Spain as well as the Caribbean and the Mediterranean, and he has raced three times in both the Fastnet and Round Ireland Races, in addition to sailing on two round Ireland records. A member for ten years of the Council of the Irish Yachting Association (now the Irish Sailing Association), he has been writing for, and at times editing, Ireland's national sailing magazine since its earliest version more than forty years ago