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List of shipwrecks: 31 October 2024 Ship State Description Yu Zhou Qi Hang China: Typhoon Kong-rey: The 142-metre (465 ft 11 in), 12,135-ton heavy-lift ship suffered engine failure on 30 October in rough weather after leaving Keelung, Taiwan. She was driven ashore at Yehliu Geopark, northeast of Taipei, and sank on 31 October
The pirates demanded a ransom and had threatened to blow up the ship, along with the pirates themselves and the ship's crew, if the ransom was not paid. [8] [18] The ransom amount was reported as US$35 million, US$20 million, US$8 million, and US$5 million in the weeks following the capture. [19] [20] The threat was later withdrawn. [21]
The Coalsack Nebula covers nearly 7° by 5° and extends into the neighboring constellations Centaurus and Musca. [5] The first observation was reported by Vicente Yáñez Pinzón in 1499. [ 6 ] It was named " il Canopo fosco " (the dark Canopus ) by Amerigo Vespucci and was also called " Macula Magellani " (Magellan's Spot) or " Black ...
2024 in piracy included 33 reports of maritime piracy and armed robbery against ships to the International Maritime Bureau during the first quarter of the year. Incidents that happend in 2023 and soon is reported to happen 2026 Crew continued to suffer violence, [clarify] with 35 seafarers taken hostage, nine kidnapped, and one of the most important casualties threatened during the first three ...
MV Feisty Gas was a Hong Kong liquefied petroleum gas tanker that was seized by Somalian pirates in 2005. The Hong Kong–based company that owned the vessel paid $315,000 to a representative of the Somali pirates in Mombasa , Kenya.
Earl of Abergavenny ' s second letter of marque was issued on 5 March 1801. [2] She then left Portsmouth on 19 May 1801 under the command of Captain John Wordsworth, Jnr. nephew to her previous captain. She reached Santa Cruz on 31 July, Penang on 31 October, Malacca on 24 November, and Whampoa on 30 January 1802. On her return she crossed the ...
Early the following month, the fleet arrived in Campeche Bay. By night, Myngs landed approximately 1000 men a short distance from the city on 8 February 1663. [2] The following morning, Spanish lookouts saw the fleet's smaller ships at first light and sought to raise the alarm, though unaware that Myngs' much larger 40-gun flagship lay just out of sight.
October – Jean Hamlin captures between sixteen and eighteen ships near Jamaica before being forced to leave the area by a frigate sent by Governor Thomas Lynch that fails to capture Hamlin. December – Another frigate, the Guernsey , is sent by Governor Thomas Lynch to capture Jean Hamlin however Hamlin manages to elude being captured once ...