In April of last year, we followed the story of the Maersk Alabama and how its captain Richard Phillips was held hostage by pirates and then freed through an operation by the Navy SEALs. The vessel in the center of this hostage drama was a lifeboat, and that lifeboat has since been acquired by the [...]
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The ship that was suddenly made famous by being right smack in the middle of a pirate hostage drama that culminated in a rescue operation that, in our opinion, will only be possible through the skills of special forces operatives – in this case, the Navy SEALs – reportedly warded off what would have been [...]
One of the more long-running stories we featured on various posts this year is the story of how young modern-day pirates boarded the cargo ship Maersk Alabama and eventually took its captain hostage. The drama ended with the intervention of Navy SEAL snipers; three of the four pirates were killed, while the remaining pirate was [...]
In April 2009 the world at large watched in frustration when they discovered that the Maersk Alabama cargo ship that was near the coast of Africa had been hijacked by Somali pirates. This hijacking made news around the world as people anxiously awaited to see what would become of hostage Capt. Richard Phillips.
Mixed emotions [...]
A feature on the ArmyTimes.com by Jon R. Anderson reveals that a documentary-drama to be premiered on the Discovery Channel will present a different side to a widely popular story that surrounds the pirate-hostage drama involving the Maersk Alabama and its crew.
For our part, the way we understood the story and the situation – based [...]
What, indeed, is a good pirate story without some missing treasure? It looks like even stories in modern maritime piracy is not spared the treasure angle, as we found a report on CNN International by CNN Pentagon Correspondent Barbara Starr that the Navy is currently investigating the apparent loss of thousands of dollars in cash [...]
