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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 ...
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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A ship that was part of the Stone Fleet scuttled at Charleston Harbor. United States United States: 3 April 1881 Wrecked off Cape Romain [40] USS Vermilion United States Navy: 4 March 1988 A Tolland-class attack cargo ship that was sunk as an artificial reef off Myrtle Beach. USS Weehawken United States Navy: 6 December 1863
A Nigerian court made the first convictions under a new anti-piracy law, giving hope to the world's shipping fleets that legal reforms will help stem rising attacks in the Gulf of Guinea. The ...
Maryland Attorney General Anthony G. Brown on Tuesday announced that the state has filed a lawsuit vs. the owners of the M/V Dali cargo ship for causing the collision on March 26, 2024, that led ...
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