Posted on 12/22/2018 10:17:15 AM PST by robowombat
The twelve-hour hijacking of a cargo ship in the Thames Estuary by illegal migrants was brought to a dramatic end by a Special Boat Service (SBS) boarding, according to reports.
Commandos from the elite Royal Navy unit, regarded as something of a sister unit to the British Army’s Special Air Service (SAS), abseiled onto the Grande Tema some time between 11 p.m. and midnight on Friday, The Sun reports
The 236-metre Grimaldi shipping line vessel had been circling in the iconic Thames Estuary north-east of Margate, Kent, for hours, after a group of would-be illegal migrant stowaways who had been discovered some days earlier escaped from their quarters, armed themselves with iron bars and other makeshift weapons, and threatened the crew with violenc
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Were our Amish trying to hijack this boat?
The, um migrants, got aboard in Nigeria and wanted the ship to draw closer to the shore so they could swim for it.
The Amish were abseiling. That is a new word for me, but my phone understood it.
The British mangling of simple words is repelling.
” abseiled” Nice. Almost like Mychal Massie wrote the piece. LOL! So, based on the definition they rappeled down from choppers then? Didn’t really say that in the article that I saw. Anyway, did they keel haul the trespassers/kidnappers? Or, will they be locked up in the Tower of London with all the amenities available?
Thanks for a new word:
“Abseil” is the normal term in the UK, whereas “rappel” is used in the US. This technique is used by climbers, mountaineers, cavers, canyoners, search and rescue and rope access technicians to descend cliffs or slopes when they are too steep and/or dangerous to descend without protection.
Abseiling - Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abseiling
“Did you pay to ride on this ship?”
“No.”
Splash!
“Jamison....throw that fellow something he can hang on to. An anchor will do.”
Abseiled forthwith as it were.
No such thing as illegal migrants.
The NYT collection of low-T he/she/its tell us so.
Ha!
They were from the Special Boat Service.
So they were sliding down a rope from a small boat to a large boat.
I know. I don’t understand it either.
Hey....they call cookies biscuits.
What can you expect?
i take it they came in by heli
A sign of the globalist, leftist chaos that is engulfing Europe.
See even UK won’t let in illegals
Why can’t those British speak ENGLISH??? ;)
They’ll be taken safely ashore so they won’t have to swim the last few hundred yards, have whatever names they give written down in a book, made to promise the infidels that they won’t misbehave, and released with a pocket full of money so they can go buy machetes.
Hey, Theresa May, prove me wrong if you will.
they seem to let any muslim in the front door.
I think we both know they’ll be punished by being forced to accept their Christmas asylum and placement in a nice segregated immigrant all-expenses-paid “community” where they can begin the raping and murdering.
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