Pregnant woman among 12 dead after boat carrying migrants capsizes in English Channel

By Joshua Cheetham, BBC Verify

BBC Verify has been
monitoring a ship-tracking website, MarineTraffic, to try to find out more
about the rescue effort.

It appears to have
been a very busy day in the Channel, with lots of activity consistent with
rescue and recovery operations.

Based on details given by French authorities, it appears that rescue efforts began just
after 08:40 GMT.

Around this time,
MarineTraffic shows a recovery ship, called the Minck, veering from its course
near the Cap Griz-Nez.

It steers north and
stays in an area about 5km from the coast. At around 09:30 GMT, it is joined by
two fishing vessels, La Bretonne and the Murex, and at 09:35 by another
French-flagged vessel, AX DFP1.

The ships then sail
north and meet with a French search and rescue speedboat, the PDT Jacques
Lebrun, and are then joined by a French warship. Soon afterwards, all vessels
except the warship sail south and dock in Boulogne-sur-Mer.