Via USAToday | Feb 24, 2011 | 5:31 PM
A ferry chartered to evacuate American citizens from Libya to Malta remains docked in Tripoli because of bad weather, the State Department says. The boat had been scheduled to leave Wednesday.
"It will leave as soon as the seas will allow," spokeswoman Leslie Phillips said.
The ferry is carrying 40 U.S. Embassy employees, their 127 family members and 118 evacuees from other countries, she said. Non-essential embassy employees and their dependents had been ordered to leave the country.
A charter flight that was due to fly into Tripoli today was also hampered by bad weather. That flight is expected Friday.
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My understanding is that the chartered boat has a capacity of 500 passengers. Not clear how many of the numbers above are private Americans.
Local weather forecast for Tripoli indicates cloudy weather but strong winds for the next three days. I hope its good enough to sail to Valletta.
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