Landing the Big One

Landing the Big One

Thursday, April 12, 2012

Somali Pirates: Danes Take Down Pirate Mother Ship, Rescue 12

"Danish navy frees hostages from pirates off Somalia," reports Reuters:
The Danish navy captured 16 Somali pirates and freed 12 captives when it intercepted a "mothership" vessel off the Horn of Africa, it said on Thursday.

The Danish warship Absalon, serving in NATO's counter-piracy mission Ocean Shield, stopped the vessel off the east coast of Somalia on Wednesday, boarded it without resistance, arrested the suspected Somali pirates and found the hostages.

"The operation was carried out without use of armed force," the Danish navy command said in a statement.

"As the Absalon approached the ship and hailed it, they surrendered right away," navy spokesman Mikael Bill said.

Update: NATO image of Jelbut-style fishing boat
Held by the pirates were three Iranians and nine Pakistani hostages, the original crew of the vessel, a Jelbut-type fishing boat seized by pirates about a month ago, Bill said.

1 comment:

  1. Too bad the US doesnt have some of those ships.

    All we get is a shittly LCS.

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