Greek ship to the rescue

A Greek car carrier came to the rescue of 18 shipwrecked seafarers in the South China Sea last week, it has emerged.

Crew onboard the 6,600-vehicle-capacity Goliath Leader (built 2008) plucked the lucky sailors from a lifeboat on 27 August.

News of the Good Samaritan mission only came to light when the ship’s charterer, NYK Line, released a statement on Friday.

“The NYK vessel was sailing from Laem Chabang, Thailand, to Singapore at around 8 am (local time) on August 27, 2010, when the vessel came across sailors in a lifeboat in the northeast sea off the Malay Peninsula,” the Japanese operator wrote in a statement on its website.

“Rescue