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  2. List of ships attacked by Somali pirates - Wikipedia

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    Seabourn Spirit, a luxury cruise ship carrying 210 crew members and passengers, was attacked by pirates off the coast of Somalia. [12] Riding in two small speedboats, the pirates fired at the ship with machine guns and rocket-propelled grenades, but the crew drove them off with a water hose and a long range acoustic device. [13]

  3. Piracy off the coast of Somalia - Wikipedia

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    In January 2023, the "Indian Ocean High Risk Area" was removed, following no reported attacks by Somali pirates for several years. [12] Piracy resurged in the region during the early 2020s, [103] [104] with incidents of piracy and hijacking in the Somali basin continuing to increase. [105]

  4. List of ships attacked by Somali pirates in 2009 - Wikipedia

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    The pirates attacked the vessel which was anchored at the Kenyan harbor of Kiunga, 18 km (11 mi) from the Somali border. Three people of Somali origin came in a fast skiff during the night and boarded the ship, kidnapping the three Indian crew members and mysteriously leaving the Kenyan crew unharmed. [ 14 ]

  5. Somali piracy 2.0 - the BBC meets the new robbers of ... - AOL

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    According to the European Union’s naval force Operation Atalanta, which patrols nearby, there were 26 pirate attacks between 2013 and 2019 - and then not a single one from 2020 to 2022.

  6. Suspected pirate attack in the Gulf of Aden raises concerns ...

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    That year, there were 237 reported attacks in waters off Somalia. Somali piracy in the region at the time cost the world's economy some $7 billion — with $160 million paid out in ransoms ...

  7. List of ships attacked by Somali pirates in 2010 - Wikipedia

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    The Liberian flagged Moscow University was attacked by Somali pirates in two speedboats when some 500 nautical miles (930 km) off the coast of Somalia. The Udaloy -class destroyer Marshal Shaposhnikov was reported to be en route to the aid of the crew of Moscow University .

  8. U.S. Marines Recapture Ship Held by Somali Pirates - AOL

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    Score one for the good guys. U.S. Marines have reclaimed control of a commercial ship seized by pirates off the Somali coast -- the first such successful U.S. military boarding since the recent ...

  9. List of ships attacked by Somali pirates in 2008 - Wikipedia

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    On 12 October 2008, Somali security forces engaged in a shoot-out with the pirates, resulting in a death of a pirate and of a Somali soldier. [55] The security forces also captured two pirate speedboats. Two days later, Somali forces liberated the ship, and 10 hijackers were arrested. [56] Panama ( Greece) MV Action (chemical tanker) 20 (unknown)