A British Royal Navy auxiliary ship is set to arrive in the Bahamas to assist in recovery from Hurricane Dorian.
The RFA Mounts Bay vessel was deployed to the region in June in anticipation of hurricane season, according to the British Ministry of Defense.
The vessel is equipped with aid, specialist personnel, building materials, and
a helicopter. According to CNN , the vessel was set to arrive in the area Monday.
50,000 in need = 1 helicopter
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... There is no official word on casualties but the Red Cross fears some 13,000 homes have been damaged or destroyed.
Dorian is travelling west at just over 1mph (2km/h).The NHC said the hurricane would "continue to pound Grand Bahama Island" through much of the day and evening on Monday.
... video and tweets posted by Latrae Rahming, a former aide to ex-PM Perry Christie, showed severe damage on the Abaco Islands, home to about 17,000 people, where landfall was first made with sustained winds close to 185mph.
Cars have been flipped over and roofs torn off.
Mr Rahming told the BBC it was as though a tornado had swept through Marsh Harbour on the Abacos, with a surge as high as a two-storey building bringing intense flooding.
He said he feared for one shanty town area that houses about 1,500 people.https://twitter.com/i/status/1168227588533293056 --------------------------
Hurricane Dorian could cause insurance industry losses of up to $25bn (£20.7bn) according to analysts at UBS, Reuters reports.
UBS analysts updated their model to reflect a wider potential industry insured loss range of $5bn to $40bn and raised their base case to $25bn from $15bn, with solvency capital at risk.
The analysts estimate about $70bn of natural catastrophe losses for 2019 and added this could erode excess capital and raise prices.
