2008 Pirates Chase Cruise Ship

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2008 pirates chase cruise ship. Photo released 12 April 2008 by the French Navy and taken 11 April 2008 in the Indian Ocean shows French luxury cruise ship SV Le Ponant s crew members being evacuated from their ship after being released by pirates off the Somalian coast. File image of the Nautica in. International coalition warships stopped Somali pirates from hijacking a luxury cruise ship in the Gulf of Aden at the weekend the Danish navy said Monday.

Tuesday December 02 2008. But this grew int. The newspaper reports that the two skiffs ended their pursuit only when a shipboard private security team fired warning flares at the craft.

Cruise ship with more than 1000 people on board but failed to hijack the vessel as it sailed along a corridor patrolled by. 2 2008 433 AM PST Source. The vessel which was bound for Iran with a cargo of sugar from Brazil is owned by an Iranian company.

Somali pirates captured a Bolivian-flagged ship in the Maldives Exclusive Economical Zone 193 mi 311 km northwest off Hoarafushi island. It was carrying 30 crew members though no passengers and after an eight-day standoff those onboard were rescued and the. But according to Danish TV2 News six to eight armed pirates on two speed boats were observed speeding toward the Nautica a cruise liner that had set sail from Florida.

Somali pirates attack and chase cruise ship carrying British tourists. Transocean Tours cruise ship was approached by two pirate speedboats while on the Gulf of Oman en route from Sharm-al-Sheikh to Dubai but the pirate boats were chased off by the German frigate Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. Other ships have not been so lucky.

By Mail Foreign Service Updated. 1657 EDT 1 December 2008. Pirates Fire on a Cruise Ship.