2008 Pirates Chase Cruise Ship

International coalition warships stopped Somali pirates from hijacking a luxury cruise ship in the Gulf of Aden at the weekend the Danish navy said Monday.

2008 pirates chase cruise ship. Somali pirates attack and chase cruise ship carrying British tourists. The vessel which was bound for Iran with a cargo of sugar from Brazil is owned by an Iranian company. As their cruise ship steamed through the Gulf of Aden on Sunday morning the 656 passengers and 400 crew members aboard the MS.

It was carrying 30 crew members though no passengers and after an eight-day standoff those onboard were rescued and the. December 2 2008 227 pm. Somali pirates captured a Bolivian-flagged ship in the Maldives Exclusive Economical Zone 193 mi 311 km northwest off Hoarafushi island.

NAIROBI Kenya AP Pirates chased and shot at a US. CNN -- A 30000-ton luxury cruise ship outran pirates off the coast of Yemen this weekend the ships owner said Monday. Transocean Tours cruise ship was approached by two pirate speedboats while on the Gulf of Oman en route from Sharm-al-Sheikh to Dubai but the pirate boats were chased off by the German frigate Mecklenburg-Vorpommern.

Photo released 12 April 2008 by the French Navy and taken 11 April 2008 in the Indian Ocean shows French luxury cruise ship SV Le Ponant s crew members being evacuated from their ship after being released by pirates off the Somalian coast. Cruise liner with more than 1000 people on board but failed to hijack the vessel as it sailed along a corridor patrolled by international warships a maritime official said Tuesday. NAIROBI Kenya AP Pirates chased and shot at an American cruise ship with more than 1000 people on board but failed to hijack the vessel as it sailed along a corridor patrolled by.

NAIROBI Kenya The luxury American cruise ship steaming across the Gulf of Aden with hundreds of well-heeled tourists just might have been too much for Somali pirates to resist. The newspaper reports that the two skiffs ended their pursuit only when a shipboard private security team fired warning flares at the craft. 1657 EDT 1 December 2008.

Cruise ship with more than 1000 people on board but failed to hijack the vessel as it sailed along a corridor patrolled by. The cruise ship is owned by Miami based Oceania Cruises and was. Cruise ships have been frequent targets of pirates in recent years.