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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.
The Kiribati-flagged vessel MT Hai Soon 6 was boarded and hijacked by a group of 10 heavily armed pirates at 11:40PM UTC approximately 46 nautical miles off the coast of Anloga, Ghana. After successfully siphoning all the ship's crude oil into barges, the pirates fled the scene in speedboats and released the entire 21 man crew without incident.
In November 1925, the USSB announced the sale of the American South African Line and its five vessels through a public auction. [ 6 ] On December 10, 1925, John M. Franklin, representing the Farrell family and other investors, placed the winning bid of US$784,019.50 (equivalent to about $13,621,409 in 2023), securing the company and its vessels ...
The U.S. Combined Joint Task Force – Horn of Africa (CJTF-HOA) was created aboard the U.S. Navy command ship Mount Whitney off Djibouti in late 2002. In February 2007, United States President George W. Bush announced the establishment of the United States Africa Command which took over all of the area of operations of CJTF-HOA in October 2008.
40% of each vessel's costs are related to the combat-management system installed on the Valour class, with 75% of the combat suite being developed in South Africa. Capt. Jimmy Schutte, commanding officer of SAS Mendi , gives US Navy commanders a tour of the bridge the South African Navy Valour-class frigate
The Port of Ngqura is South Africa's newest port and the deepest container port in the country. It has an entrance channel -18 m Port Chart Datum in depth, a turning basin of 600 m in diameter and also at -18 m Port Chart Datum, 1 general cargo berth at -18 m Port Chart Datum, and 4 container berth and 2 general cargo berth at -16 m Port Chart Datum.
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SAS Amatola (F145) is the first of four Valour-class frigates for the South African Navy by the European South African Corvette Consortium.. Amatola, in keeping with a naming convention depicting acts of valour, was named after the Amatola mountain range in the Eastern Cape area where British forces fought the Xhosa nation in late 1852.