US Captures 17 Pirates

This is a nice story on the US Navy and Korean Navy working together to find the bad guys. That is also one ugly piece of shit boat.

According to a release from 5th Fleet, the Gettysburg and a destroyer from the Republic of Korea, Munmu the Great, responded to a distress call from an Egyptian merchant ship on May 13. The ship, the motor vessel Amira, reported being attacked while 75 miles off Al Mukalla, Yemen. An SH-60B crew from Helicopter Anti-Submarine Squadron Light 46, dispatched from Gettysburg, later located what’s being described as a pirate “mothership.”

The boarding teams found eight assault rifles, a rocket-propelled grenade and launcher aboard the suspected pirate ship. The Egyptian ship reported being fired on by suspects in a skiff, who also tried to board by throwing a line over.

Note how calm the water is in that picture. That is what pirate weather looks like.

Eagle1 has been covering several interesting pirate stories this week, including Iran's two ship deployment and an update of pirate tactics and intelligence.