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To: Darksheare
I highly doubt that. The Seahawk probably flew near, looked at them, and then laughed their butts off.

I doubt that too. This is the Dutch frigate that we operated with off Somalia in 2006. As you would expect, it looks nothing like the Steve Irwin.

(I saw that container ship too-later, after the fire was out. Do a search on Hyundai Fortune.)

19 posted on 05/14/2011 1:57:58 PM PDT by GATOR NAVY ("The bigger the government, the smaller the citizen." -Dennis Prager)
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To: GATOR NAVY
I doubt that too. This is the Dutch frigate that we operated with off Somalia in 2006. As you would expect, it looks nothing like the Steve Irwin.

As the photo shows, Dutch ships use an alpha-numeric hull code, not a simple numeric "77"

That said, the ruse might not necessarily effective. Fourteen Months ago, Somali pirates attacked a sister ship HNLMS Tromp. thinking it was a merchie.


23 posted on 05/14/2011 8:19:08 PM PDT by Oztrich Boy (Monarchy is the one system of government where power is exercised for the good of all - Aristotle)
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