Rescuers search for survivors after deadly Houthi attack on cargo ship in the Red Sea

NY Post ^ | July 9, 2025,

[BenLurkin]

Rescuers launched a search Wednesday for survivors of a Liberian-flagged cargo ship that came under attack from Yemen’s Houthi rebels in the Red Sea, authorities said.

At least three mariners were killed and two were wounded.

The attack on the Greek-owned Eternity C follows the Iranian-backed Houthis attacking another vessel, the bulk carrier Magic Seas, on Sunday in the Red Sea, which they subsequently sank.

The assaults are the first Houthi attacks on shipping since late 2024 in the waterway that had begun to see more ships pass through in recent weeks.

[jjotto]

The US Embassy in Yemen announced that after killing their shipmates, sinking their ship, and hampering rescue efforts, the Houthi terrorists have kidnapped many surviving crew members of the Eternity C.

[Karl Spooner]

We taught the Houthis a lesson they will never forget!

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[ETCM]

So, what are the Greeks going to do about it? Or “Operation Aspides”, being run by the EU?

[frank ballenger]

Houthis and leftist US antifa believe they are above the law,
invulnerable and entitled to commit any acts of violence to someone who disagrees with their views.

[ETCM]

Our agreement with the Houthis was for American shipping. If they attack an American owned or flagged ship, I expect they will regret it.

[BenLurkin]

That pic looks kinda CGI/AI.

[BenLurkin]

In fact, I’d bet it was created with “computer game” software.

[frank ballenger]

RE: hampering rescue efforts, the Houthi terrorists have kidnapped many surviving crew members...

Our side can turn the other cheek but we are running out of cheeks.

[Leaning Right]

> Our agreement with the Houthis was for American shipping. <

The problem is that if one ship is attacked, insurance rates go up on all ships.

[SpaceBar]

So, what are the Greeks going to do about it?

I thought that myself.

Other than owning the shipping line, they seem to be peculiarly out of the picture.

[Alberta's Child]

Who is “we?” It’s a Greek-owned and Liberian-flagged ship. Greece and Liberia can deal with this.

[hanamizu]

Yesterday, What’s Going on With Shipping showed the Houthi’s vid of the explosions taking place. After attacking the Magic Sea, they boarded the ship and planted charges below the waterline to sink it. You can see the black on the starboard side where one of their unmanned speedboats exploded. But the crew was able to escape by lifeboat and was rescued by a passing ship.

In the attack on Eternity Sea, the brave Houthis targeted the lifeboats making escape from the ship by the crew impossible. And now they’ve been kidnapped.

The Liberian Navy is likely not going to do much in response to these attacks. /s

On the other hand Europe certainly has a vital interest in seeing the Red Sea/Suez Canal open to shipping. No U.S.-flagged ship has successfully transited for a year or so, the last to try were turned by by Houthi threats.

[frank ballenger]

RE: “we”

True, it’s for others to go to war, not us. If not our ship and crew.

I even thought of self-censoring and editing my post but decided like Frank Sinatra to take the blows.
To say the things he truly feels
And not the words of one who kneels
The record shows I took the blows
And did it my way.

[libertylover]

The Brits used to have a fine navy. They should step up and keep the sea lanes open. The French too.

[When do we get liberated?]

Good. We don’t need to be world police. Let the Greeks field a special ops team to do something about it

[ETCM]

If the Greeks (and the rest of the EU) had been more willing to step up in December 2023, I might be slightly more sympathetic and willing to help. They declined, then when we conducted strikes on the Houthis in 2024 and 2025, they watched from the sidelines.

[JohnBovenmyer]

This turns the clock back to the framing of our Constitution and our first presidents. We are having piracy on other high seas, very much the same as was the largest federal budget item under Washington and Adams. When "piracy" was written into the Constitution this was what it meant, not Disney pirates. This time it did not involve an US flagged or US owned ship, mainly because US government policy has short-sightedly made both rare. It probably doesn't involve US citizen crew as we've also made them rare in the industry. But statistically a lot of the cargo shipped worldwide will be either imported to or exported from US owners so it directly affects those owners. And increased costs to them, direct or mediated via insurance rates, are passed along the supply chains to other americans. And history says we shouldn't assume such islamic endorsed behavior won't more personally affect americans going forward. Moreover IIRC we have treaty obligations to defend some non-"US" flagged shipping.

Many, too many, folks will look to Trump for answers here, expecting Houthis to FUFO via him. Many here prefer Trump to pass the response on to other country's navies, which maybe 'should' be able to handle, but may or may not be alone up to the task. Under Washington and Adams we weren't up to the task, no one helped us until we proved willing and able to fight back under Jefferson. Trump yelling at under-financed, under-performing 'friends' may be indicated. But reading my Constitution identifies other targets deserving yelling. Congress! It gives them, not the president, responsibility for taking action and setting rules against piracy. So if a bunch of sneakers, en route to the Bronx, get sunk by pirates, some one better ask AOC what she's going to do about it! How about Congress sets some lethal rules of engagement and issues letters of marque to cash laden silicon valley.

[CarolinaReaganFan]

Maybe Yemen is a good place to send the Gaza residents?

[BenLurkin]

Castrate them along the way.