Wednesday, March 12, 2008 US ship reports 1 sailor missing
WHEN USNS Stockholm sailed for the US last Sunday, it was missing one crewmember.
Frank Michael P. Guido, a 43-year-old New Yorker, failed to return to the supply vessel that services US warships.
Feliz Quianson of the Cebu Port Authority (CPA) police said Guido disembarked from the ship, which was anchored off the Mactan Channel, at 7:30 p.m. last March 7, the same day the ship arrived.
Guido reportedly took a ferry owned by Aznar Shipping Lines to the Cebu International Port (CIP), a designated exit area for foreigners.
From the CIP, Guido boarded a shuttle bus, which took him to Silver Dollar Restaurant near the Fuente Osmeña in Cebu City. That was Guido’s last known location in Cebu.
Quianson said they coordinated with the Philippine National Police in the cities of Mandaue, Lapu-Lapu and Cebu to look for Guido, to no avail.
USNS Stockholm, with almost 600 men and women on board, had docked in Cebu twice before. It sails to various countries in the Middle East and other parts of Asia. But this is the first time that it reported a crewmember missing.
According to Quianson, they tried to contact Guido on his mobile phone but it was “unattended.”
Quianson has urged the public to inform his office if they know where Guido is so his office can relay the information to the US Embassy. (EOB)
