2005 Cruise Ship Pirate

The pirates approached in 25ft speedboats and shot at the ship with the grenade launcher and machineguns.

2005 cruise ship pirate. Cruise ship escapes attack by pirates 100 miles off Somalia. Pirates Attack Cruise Ship November 5 2005 1247 PM AP Pirates fired a rocket-propelled grenade and machine guns Saturday in an attack on a luxury cruise liner off the east African coast the. Crew members were ultimately rescued.

Somalian Cruise Ship Pirates. Two small boats toting automatic machine guns and a grenade launcher assaulted the vessel but superb seamanship by the captain and onboard defenses helped the luxury ship escape with. An April 2008 pirate attack on Le Ponant a French luxury sailing vessel was more successful.

A cruise ship sailing off Somalia has beaten back gunmen in speedboats who opened fire on it in an apparent pirate attack which terrified passengers. The Seabourn Spirit was attacked by two pirate boats about 100 miles off the Somali coast. The Seabourn Spirit had been bound for Kenya when it was attacked by pirates armed with grenade launchers and machine guns on.

Turns out it wasnt pirates but just a navigator. One of the most recent pirate attacks was in November 2005 against a Seabourn ship sailing off the coast of Somalia in eastern Africa. They can go a lot faster than one might think.

The faster cruise ship managed to escape and used a. Bruce Notsogood an overpaid underworked mouthpiece for Carnival Corporation vehemently denied the attack was staged insisting the pirates were real despite the fact that the cruise ships captain simply rang bells for full speed ahead and outran the dingies after deciding against a ramming move against smaller and more maneuverable craft. The ship sailing crew-only was hijacked.

A LUXURY cruise ship with 22 British tourists aboard survived an attack by Somali pirates armed with rocket-propelled grenades yesterday as it rounded the Horn of Africa. The ship was on a cruise from Alexandria in Egypt. Published Nov 9 2005 1201 AM by The Maritime Executive.