The crew of the Royal Navy's Portsmouth-based ice patrol vessel has rescued a cruise ship threatened by Antarctic ice.

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In the meantime, Alex Cornelissen was captaining the Farley, and he decided to take the ship out to sea for a couple of days to patrol for illegal long-lining within the reserve.

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The same U.S. ship -- with the help of an HC-144 maritime patrol aircraft -- spotted and intercepted a similar boat with six migrants south of Marathon, Florida.

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The ship drifted undetected until late last month when a Canadian coastal air patrol spotted it several hundred miles off the Queen Charlotte Islands, an archipelago on the north coast of British Columbia.

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The ship had already started sinking when it made the distress call but capsized within minutes of the patrol vessel arriving.

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