Sri Lanka Navy rendered assistance to a multi-day fishing trawler, Thilak I, with 6 fishermen in distress, in the seas 72 nautical miles off Great Basses yesterday (20).
The trawler which had gone for fishing on 7th May from the Galle fisheries harbour had experienced an engine failure on 17th and was adrift in the sea.
On receipt of information from the Galle fisheries harbour, the SLN Offshore Patrol Vessel, SLNS Jayasagara was directed to assist the fishing trawler and fishermen in distress.
Upon reaching the distressed trawler, the naval personnel looked into the basic needs such as food and drinking water, of the fishermen onboard.
Thereupon the defective fishing trawler was towed ashore by SLNS Jayasagara and handed over to another multiday fishing trawler about 1 nautical miles off from the port of Hambantota, to be flanked ashore.
