VIETNAMESE REFUGEES RESCUED AT SEA
Name of Chip
Nationality of Flag
Nationality of Owners
Date of Rescue
No of Refugees Rescued
First Fort of Call following
Rescue Operation
Attitude of Authorities at first
Fort of Call
THE GOLDEN DOLPHIN
Liberian
Hong Kong
13 September 1977
13
Fukuyama, Japan
Refused to allow refugees to land in absence of undertaking from HMG to take any of the group not otherwise relocated within a time to be specified by the
Yes, in London and Tokyo
Whether Representations made.
by HMG
Whether Representations made by
UNHCR
Yes
Japanese
:
Result of all, Representations
Positive
Commitment (if any) undertaken by
HMG
To give most sympathetic consideration to any of the group who wish to come to the
UK
Fukuyama, Japan on 22 September 1977
Date and Place of Disembarkation'
of Refugees
None
No of Refugees subsequently brought
to UK (whether permanently or temporarily)
I