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On February 16, 2016 6 heavily armed Nigerian pirates boarded the French owned oil vessel Bourbon Liberty 251 55 nautical miles off the Nigerian coast. The pirates managed to capture the ship's master, a Russian citizen, along with a Nigerian sailor while the other 10 crew members managed to lock themselves in the engine room. As the pirates ...
List of ships attacked by Nigerian pirates; M. Madre de Deus; Morning Star (1825 ship) N. Nassau (1819 ship) Nimble (1813 ship) P. Perseverance (1797 ship) Q. Quedagh ...
Ose and her sister ships are Ocea FPB 72 vessels, just 24 metres (79 ft) long, with a range of 600 nautical miles (1,100 km), sufficient for short missions, within Nigeria's Exclusive Economic Zone. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] She carries a crew of twelve, and can proceed at up to 35 knots (65 km/h).
The first reported attack of petro-pirates began in the 1970s and early 1980s in Nigeria, Lagos, where it was reported that up to 12 vessels carrying oil were attacked every day. [15] One of the earliest petro-piracy attacks was the hijacking of the vessel Lindinga Ivory, where the master and 14 crew members were killed. [ 20 ]
While exploring a 500-year-old shipwreck off the coast of Sweden, divers discovered “surprising” cargo and weapons that may have helped repel pirates.
The three American vessels encountered a heavily armed schooner, with a crew of about seventy-five, near a Cuban village. The United States Navy attacked with their cannon and the schooner was hit so her captain began a retreat. When further hits struck the schooner, the pirates panicked and began to abandon ship by jumping into the water.
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