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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Yes, two countries separated by a common language.
If George Washington hadn’t defeated Lord Cornwallis in Yorktown we would still be speaking English in this country!
For Pete’s sake, the word is a perfectly normal word for rappelling down a rope (especially from an aircraft), and is used in American English too - although less commonly, unless you’re a mountaineer. Why criticize them for doing something good?
I’m more interested in what will happen to the hijackers. They’ll probably just be released into the British population and put on welfare.
Expect?
Some can not grasp the concept of lorry
Hey!
Leave my cousin Lorry out of this.
“Hey....they call cookies biscuits.”
Chips are crisps
Fries are chips
Dessert is called a sweet
An elevator is a lift
The windshield is the windscreen
The hood is the bonnet
If a multi-story building has a basement the basement is the first floor, the street level is the 2nd floor
And my personal pet peeve
Aluminum is aluminium...even though Sir Humphry Davy named it aluminum when he discovered it in 1808
Forget it Jake, it’s England...or the soon to be Caliphate of Britain.
And the trunk is the boot.
Anyway, more cultural enrichers loosed upon Old Blighty or what’s left of it.
No these folks were mussies
Russia would have turned them lose with a few concrete blocks to build homes in their new homeland.
Abseiling: of German origin—by way of Estonia...
Thanks.
I am amazed, so often, at the breadth of knowledge of so many freepers.
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