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Pirate gangs controlled by local warlords started to capture passing merchant ships in an attempt to gain funding by ransoming the ships and their crews. As the raids became successful, the pirates became bolder. They began seizing UN aid ships, and even attacked a cruise liner attempting to capture it for ransom. The U.S. and Coalition vessels ...
The British warships Tyne and HMS Thracian of eighteen guns defeated the notorious pirate Captain Cayatano Aragonez's thirteen-gun ship Zaragozana on March 31, in a running battle, the two British ships chased Captain Aragonez into Mata Harbor where boats were lowered and captured the vessel. Ten pirates were killed and twenty eight were ...
(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]
When the pirate alarm sounded, Chief Engineer Mike Perry brought 14 members of the crew into a secure room that the engineers had been fortifying for such a purpose. As the pirates approached, the remaining crew fired flares. In addition, Perry and First Assistant Engineer Matt Fisher swung the ship's rudder, which swamped the pirate skiff. [10]
MS Melody was a cruise ship, formerly owned and operated by MSC Cruises.She was built in 1982 by the CNIM shipyard in La Seyne, France for Home Lines as Atlantic.Between 1988 and 1997 she sailed for Premier Cruise Line as StarShip Atlantic.
13 pirates captured and released to mother skiff after cleared of weapons: March 17, 2010: unknown: None: When Tromp was spotted by the pirates, they began to approach the ship in two skiffs at high speed. As they closed to a distance of 3 nautical miles (5.6 km; 3.5 mi) two bursts of heavy machine gun warning shots were fired by HNLMS TROMP.
Bartholomew Roberts or Black Bart was successful in sinking, or capturing and pillaging some 400 ships. [19] and like most pirate captains of the time he looked fancy doing it. [28] He started his freebooting career in the Gulf of Guinea in February 1719 when Howell Davis' pirates captured his ship and he proceeded to join them. Rising to ...