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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 ...
Also known as USS Colebrook; a Hog Islander merchant ship that grounded off Middleton Island. [5] Destination: 11 February 2017 A 98-foot (30 m) crabbing vessel that sank in 250 ft (76 m) of water amid icy conditions just northwest of St. George Island, Alaska in the Bering Sea. The captain and five crew members were lost with the boat. [6]
TS State of Maine in her home port of Castine, ME. The ship is normally docked at her pier in Castine when not on a training cruise or in drydock. State of Maine is classed with the American Bureau of Shipping, and all inspections of her hull and equipment are undertaken by this classification society. The ship entered drydock for scheduled ...
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Prince of Fundy Cruises and later Scotia Prince Cruises operated the MS Scotia Prince from 1983 to 2004. Bay Ferries began operating the high speed catamaran HSC The Cat on the Portland-Nova Scotia route in 2006 using the newly constructed Ocean Gateway International Marine Passenger Terminal for the 2008 and 2009 seasons. This service was ...
Passengers decked out for a black tie dinner on a British cruise ship on the Indian Ocean were told to hide below decks when a speed boat allegedly carrying Somali pirates came alongside the.
A 72-year-old American man traveling on a Princess Cruise ship mysteriously vanished from the boat, prompting officials to believe he fell overboard at some point during the five-day voyage around ...