Father says missing sailor feared recurring problems on MV Barima and wanted transfer

What this source establishes

Crew evidence of known mechanical problems, published two days before the leaked records. THIS IS CREW EVIDENCE OF THE VESSEL'S CONDITION THAT DOES NOT DEPEND ON THE LEAKED DOCUMENTS, AND IT WAS PUBLISHED TWO DAYS BEFORE THEM. Royston Frank, father of Raul Frank, 33, a Transport & Harbours Department sailor still unaccounted for, says his son had repeatedly told the family about mechanical problems on the vessel and intended the voyage of 18 July to be his last aboard her before seeking a transfer.

Key claims

• **THIS IS CREW EVIDENCE OF THE VESSEL'S CONDITION THAT DOES NOT DEPEND ON THE LEAKED DOCUMENTS, AND IT WAS PUBLISHED TWO DAYS BEFORE THEM.** **Royston Frank**, father of **Raul Frank**, 33, a Transport & Harbours Department sailor still unaccounted for, says his son had repeatedly told the family about mechanical problems on the vessel and intended the voyage of 18 July to be his last aboard her before seeking a transfer.
• On the vessel: the father says she \"had experienced engine problems on numerous occasions, including an incident earlier this year when its engine reportedly burnt out\", and that these difficulties \"were well known among those who worked on the vessel\".
• On his son's intention, as the father relates it: **\"He said that was going to be his last trip\"**, and that he planned to \"get a transfer to another boat because he didn't want to continue working on that one with all the problems it had\".
• **[CAPTURE DEFECT — TWO OF THEM]** The retrieval also rendered Raul Frank's service as "an 8-year-old employee", which cannot be literal — he is 33 with a nine-year-old child. This archive reads it as **eight years' service** and flags that as an inference, not as text. Separately, the retrieval renders one attribution ambiguously, appearing to place the father's words in the son's mouth. **Every quotation above is the father's account of what his son said, and none of it is Raul Frank speaking.** Anyone quoting this should return to the original.
• **[SINGLE SOURCE]** and it is a bereaved father's recollection of private conversations, which no document can corroborate. **It is hearsay about a man who cannot be asked.** Recorded because it goes to whether the vessel's problems were known to the people working her — which is what the documents reported two days later also go to — and because it reaches that question by a different route.
• Raul Frank is described as an employee of eight years' standing, a father of a nine-year-old, of Number 40 Village, Berbice. **No victim list is published on this site; these details appear because his family made them public.**

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