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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 ...
Richard Ingle (b. c. 1609 – d. 1653) was an English sea captain, tobacco trader, and privateer in colonial Maryland.Along with William Claiborne, Ingle revolted against Maryland Catholic leaders in the name of English Parliament and Puritans in a period known as the Plundering Time.
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 ...
The mayor and city council of Baltimore have launched a legal claim against both the owner and manager of a ship that crashed into the Francis Scott Key Bridge last month, leaving six men presumed ...
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In the post-attack phase, pirate groups need facilitators to perform ransom negotiation and money laundering. Furthermore, close connections to security personnel are highly important in this phase, as it allows pirates to hold hostages up to 10 days without being apprehended by Nigerian security forces. [ 2 ]
While exploring a 500-year-old shipwreck off the coast of Sweden, divers discovered “surprising” cargo and weapons that may have helped repel pirates.
Commodore Porter then attacked and destroyed a pirate force at Funda Bay, Cuba between September 28 and 30, 1822. Also on September 28, Peacock captured a boat filled with pirates about sixty miles (97 km) from Havana, and later that afternoon, USS Peacock encountered the merchant vessel Speedwell which had been attacked by pirates two hours ...