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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 ...
(Cruise ship) unknown (unknown) Attacked: 2009: unknown: n/a: n/a: About 800 kilometres (500 mi) off the coast of Somalia, pirates tried to attack an Italian cruise ship carrying nearly 1,500 people in 2009. An Israeli security team had been contracted to protect the cruise liner. Security personnel returned fire when the pirates started firing ...
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]
Pirates Attack Luxury Ship A luxury cruise along the African coast sounds like the adventure of a lifetime, but it's unlikely that pirate attacks ever made it into the brochures.
MV Rubymar - On February 18, 2024, a British civilian cargo ship was struck by a Houthi anti-ship missile. On March 2 the ship sank in the Red Sea after being abandoned for 13 days. The attack is regarded as the first time a Houthi attack has sunk a vessel, as most attacks have resulted in minor damage. [79] None Naval Cargo
During the Chinese New Year holiday season, a madman named Josef and his deadly gang of 8 modern-day pirates target a luxury cruise ship bound for Hawaii full of 2,500 wealthy passengers. The terrorists climb aboard after being dropped-off via seaplane and shoot the bridge deck crew, ship's cook and a waiter before terrorizing all the ...
Pirate attacks have not stopped the 50,000 ships that annually transit the narrow passage. Forty percent of the world's trade passes through it [14] and it has become the most important route of transport for oil from the Middle East to markets in East Asia. According to the IMB, the majority of modern pirates in the region are of Indonesian ...
List of shipwrecks: 4 January 2024 Ship State Description Bugoe Portugal: The cargo ship veered off course due to ice flows and strong winds resulting in her becoming stranded in shallow waters on the edge of Väinameri Bay, Estonia. [1] Wilfred United Kingdom: Storm Henk: The Thames barge sank at Temple, London. [2]