Philippine Typhoon Extremely serious

For the information and interest of concerned members. It is my understanding that Tony and Annie live in Punta Princesa which is a suburb of Cebu City and lies about 2-3 miles south-west of the city centre. It should not be confused with Puerto Princesa which is on the island of Palawan (about 350 miles west of Cebu). The latest information I can find regarding deaths in Cebu City attributed to Typhoon Haiyan ( now a day old) reports that there have been 63 deaths and 8 people are missing. Like everyone else I hope we will soon learn that our shipmate and his lady are safe.

..........Roger

To all of you Guys and Girls,
I don't know whether you know or not, but Tony was also a member of the SN site. His user name is stores on there. I have sent a message to their webmaster asking them to try and send a message to Tony so lets see what transpires.
Regards
John

Well this sounds a wee bit promising on the part of Tony! But again so many missing,its a hard job to say the least to track down so many people!

Foreign Office Minister Hugo Swire MP said: “There are currently no reports of British nationals killed or injured.

Cheers

Just sent this Email,dont know it will help,but anything is better than nothing at all!

Hello
I am not sure as the wether you may be able to assist in this matter,but its the only place i could find!
I am trying to find out about a very good Friend who lives in Punta Princesa ,Cebu he is one of our older Members on a Merchant Navy site,and since the horrific Typhoon havent heard from him or his Wife!
I wonder if there is any way you could let me know if he is OK!

His name is Mr Tony Wilding,and as said lives in the Suburb of Punta Princesa! Cebu,i unfortunately have not got his full address,as he only moved from the UK to the Phillipines lately!
I would be very grateful on any information forthcoming!

With Thanks
With Regards
Mr MacDonald (Vernon) Australia

ukinthephilippines@fco.gov.uk

Further to my earlier post (#41) latest information (courtesy of daily newspaper Sunstar Cebu) indicates the latest death toll has risen to 71. Although reports remain unclear, it now seems that this figure applies to the island Province of Cebu (pop. 2, 619,360) as a whole and not just Cebu City as was first thought. Cebu City (pop.866,000) is the administrative capital of the province (and, incidentally, the oldest city in the Philippines). It is from here that all relief efforts and emergency services for the province of Cebu are being conducted and at the present time seem to be concentrating on the towns of Tabogon and Daanbantayan which are north of Cebu City (50 and 90 miles away, respectively). Although we can assume nothing at this stage, for Tony and Annie it could mean the prospects of their safe deliverance from this horrific, tragic event are now much more favourable. We can but hope.

........Roger

I will have to dig a bit deeper as I received a reply,but have to either contact another dept,or fill in an online form,however I don't have enough details for that as yet!
But will persevere.
Cheers

Typhoon Haiyan (local name: Yolanda)

You may be able to get help from the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) if you are:

· a British national in the Philippines who’s affected by events/the crisis

· concerned about a British national who you believe may be affected

To send details to the FCO you can:To send details to the FCO you can:

· Text Typhoon to +447860010026 and you will be sent instructions on how to send the information to the FCO. Please note that messages should be restricted to 160 characters and the reliability and cost of sending a text message varies from country to country and is dependent on the networks within those countries.
Fill in the online form



If you have been unable to contact British family or friends in the Philippines please call 00 63 2 858 2200 to register your enquiry so that our Consular team can pass on information as they are able to learn more. Please follow instructions when you are connected to be put through to Consular Response.
Should you require more information, please contact the Consular section at their e-mail address: Cons.Manila@fco.gov.uk as they are in a better position to give you advice on your enquiry.
This is an auto-generated reply, no need to respond to this email.

Will resend that Email to the above Email address and see what reply I get from them.
Cheers here hoping!!!!

Still working on this Lads,hope I can come up with something ???
What a runaround trying to look for someone in such a crisis! One would think there would be an easier way! Oh well lets persevere!
Cheers

Dear Mr. Macdonald,



Thank you for your email.



We are working with our network of wardens throughout the Philippines to make sure that British nationals are safe. We have no reports of Brits injured at this point although some have suffered damage to their properties and communication to some areas remains difficult.



We have set up an SMS and online registration system which you can use to register your concern.



· For SMS (Text) - Please text Typhoon to +447860010026 and you will be sent instructions on how to send the information about a loved one you are looking for.

· Online - https://overseas-crisis.service.gov.uk/

Alternatively if you need to speak to the FCO urgently, please call 00 63 2 858 2200 or +44 207 008 1500 so that our Consular team can pass on information as they are able to learn more. We have also forwarded your email to our Consular team here, should you want to contact them directly, please email: Cons.Manila@fco.gov.uk. I have sent another Email to this address with a bit more info in it,obtained from Tony.s Records at Kew such as DOB. Full name etc!



Hope this helps.

this is the difference of a seaman to all other people we may not have ever met but we care for each other? I have had a lot of mail of tony from his hospital when he got the tb out there and I tried to give him a bit of encouragement to get better as to all members going through a bad time? tony is an old salt we adapt and I am sure he will be ok until then my prayers are with him and to all cought up in the typhoon and help is on the way it may be weeks months before we know anything about tony but I have a feeling he will be ok{I hope} may be we could help in some way to finance a computer for him to get back to us it must be devastating to loose everything as well as all he has been through and doc I know you will do everything possible as you are and thanks from all who knows tony he is a good man trying to make a new life? that's all.jp

Thanks John
All I can do now is to wait,as they said it would take some 10days for them to reply!
As you I do hold out much hope for Tony and Annie,i feel its just lack of communication there now,so hopefully in time he will again be able to get back on line and let us know ! Stay safe Tony!
Cheers

Good on you Vernon The signs so far are not too bad.
Thanks,
Richard

Figures for dead were downgraded this morning but a spoikesman for the president said they expected the number to rise as more debrius is removed.