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Pirate ships include ships operated by pirates and used for conducting piracy upon the seas, bays, and rivers. Subcategories This category has the following 2 subcategories, out of 2 total.
Piracy is an act of robbery or criminal violence by ship or boat-borne attackers upon another ship or a coastal area, typically with the goal of stealing cargo and other valuable goods. Those who conduct acts of piracy are called pirates, and vessels used for piracy are called pirate ships.
The Belize-flagged cargo ship owned and operated by Kaalbye Shipping, Ukraine, was seized by pirates 25 September 2008 and forced to proceed to anchorage off the Somali coast. The ship was carrying a cargo of Ukrainian T-72 tanks and related military equipment. (from Piracy off the coast of Somalia)
Wreck divers recently discovered a heavily armed, 18th-century pirate ship in the waters between Morocco and Spain. Armed to the teeth, it now sits at the bottom of the ocean, serving as an ...
The Danish-owned cargo ship MV Danica White was hijacked and maneuvered into Somali waters. On June 3, USS Carter Hall, a Harpers Ferry-class landing ship dock engaged the pirates, firing machine-gun bursts at the skiffs in tow behind the Danish ship, but failed to stop them. [23]
[3] [4] The hijacking of the Ruen by Somali pirates was their first successful attack on commercial shipping tankers since 2017. [ 5 ] [ 6 ] The Singapore Strait [ 7 ] Gulf of Aden , Guardafui Channel and the Somali Sea were frequent targets of armed robbery, [ 8 ] with the Gulf of Guinea reporting three of the four hijackings of the year. [ 2 ]
A 16th-century pirate who raided shipping in the North Sea until his defeat and capture by a fleet from Hamburg Wijerd Jelckama: c. 1490–1523: Germany The nephew of Pier Gerlofs Donia (also known as Grutte Pier), fought along his side against the Saxon and Hollandic invaders. William Kyd: fl. 1430–1453: 1430s–1450s: England
MV Faina (Ukrainian: Фаїна) was a roll-on/roll-off cargo ship operated by a Ukrainian company that sailed under a Belize flag of convenience, [3] [4] [5] owned by Panama City-based Waterlux AG, and managed by Tomex Team of Odesa, Ukraine.