The ship was temporarily used by Médecins sans frontières Belgique for the rescue of shipwrecked migrants in the Mediterranean. The ship, which was designed as a lifeboat for 600 people after being fitted out, saved over 1,400 refugees off the Libyan coast on May 24, 2017. Since ports in Sicily were closed to the reception of refugees due to the G-7 summit taking place there, the ship had to take the rescued people onwards to Naples.