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Posted on 11/12/2008 2:12:19 PM PST by Sammy67
The Royal Navy described the boarding as 'compliant'
Michael Evans, Defence Editor and Rob Crilly
Pirates caught redhanded by one of Her Majesty’s warships after trying to hijack a cargo ship off Somalia made the grave mistake of opening fire on two Royal Navy assault craft packed with commandos armed with machineguns and SA80 rifles.
In the ensuing gunfight, two Somali pirates in a Yemeni-registered fishing dhow were killed, and a third pirate, believed to be a Yemeni, suffered injuries and subsequently died. It was the first time the Royal Navy had been engaged in a fatal shoot-out on the high seas in living memory.
By the time the Royal Marines boarded the pirates’ vessel, the enemy had lost the will to fight and surrendered quietly. The Royal Navy described the boarding as “compliant”.
Yesterday’s dramatic confrontation, the latest in a series of piracy incidents in the Gulf of Aden in recent months, took place 60 miles south of the Yemeni coast and involved the Royal Navy Type 22 frigate, HMS Cumberland, which has a Royal Marine unit on
(Excerpt) Read more at timesonline.co.uk ...
***It was the first time the Royal Navy had been engaged in a fatal shoot-out on the high seas in living memory. ***
Heck, did they kill off all of their WWII veterans? What about the Balkan War?
3 down, 1.5 billion pirates to go.
Bloody good show!
Colonel, USAFR
Ohhh... to have a fully armed Tomcat at that moment!
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