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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
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 ...
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 [19] [20] The threat was later withdrawn.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]
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.
The SY Quest incident [2] occurred in February 2011 when Somali pirates seized the American yacht SY Quest (s/v Quest) and four United States citizens. The United States Navy ordered the aircraft carrier USS Enterprise and three other ships to free the hostages. All four hostages were shot by their captors.
MV Tutor was a coal carrier which sailed under the flag of Liberia with a length overall of 229 metres (751 ft 4 in) and a width of 32.3 metres (106 ft 0 in). [ 6 ] [ 7 ] Owned by the Athens -based Evalend Shipping , [ 5 ] she was built in 2022 with a gross tonnage of 44,479 and deadweight tonnage of 82,357 tons.
The location of the storm and Princess of the Stars when the ship lost radio contact at 11 am June 21, 2008 The total number of people aboard was initially reported as 747 – 626 passengers and 121 crew (575 adults, 20 children, 31 infants and 121 officers and crew members).
As per the JWC, as of 12 June 2013, in the Indian Ocean, the waters enclosed by: on the North West by the Red Sea, south of Latitude 15° N; on the west of the Gulf of Oman by Longitude 58° E; on the east, Longitude 78° E; and on the south, Latitude 12° S excepting coastal waters of adjoining territories up to 12 nautical miles offshore unless otherwise provided constitute Hull War, Piracy ...