2008 Pirates Chase Cruise Ship

International coalition warships stopped Somali pirates from hijacking a luxury cruise ship in the Gulf of Aden at the weekend the Danish navy said Monday.

2008 pirates chase cruise ship. The newspaper reports that the two skiffs ended their pursuit only when a shipboard private security team fired warning flares at the craft. Piracy off the coast of SomaliaFishing communities responded by forming armed groups to deter the invaders by hijacking commercial vessels. But this grew int.

1657 EDT 1 December 2008. Cruise ship with more than 1000 people on board but failed to hijack the vessel as it sailed along a corridor patrolled by. Almost 100 vessels have been attacked off Somalia this year which includes the capture by Somali pirates of the 330-metre Sirius Star carrying 2 million barrels of oil.

30 pirates fired upon the MS Nautica a cruise liner carrying 650 passengers and 400 crew but the massive ship outran its assailants. Somali pirates captured a Bolivian-flagged ship in the Maldives Exclusive Economical Zone 193 mi 311 km northwest off Hoarafushi island. In April a three-masted luxury vessel Le Ponant was seized.

Cruise liner with more than 1000 people on board but failed to hijack the vessel as it sailed along a corridor patrolled by international warships a maritime official said Tuesday. NAIROBI Pirates chased and shot at a US. In one famous 2005 incident the crew of one passenger ship used a sonic weapon to ward off an attempted at-sea hijacking.

Despite the cruise lines denials this attack was evaluated by our people and others with a stake in the game as totally authentic and it involved the approximate number of boats initially reported by ATHENA. NAIROBI Kenya The luxury American cruise ship steaming across the Gulf of Aden with hundreds of well-heeled tourists just might have been too much for Somali pirates to resist. Pirates have attacked 32 vessels and hijacked 12 of them since NATO deployed a four-vessel flotilla in the region Oct.

NAIROBI Kenya AP Pirates chased and shot at a US. The captain ordered the ship to be brought up to full speed and the pursuing boat eventually gave up the chase. There was one case in 2009 when pirates captured a cruise ship but quickly released it when they realized there were no passengers aboard.