U.S. Navy snipers fatally shot three pirates holding an American cargo-ship captain hostage after seeing that one of the pirates "had an AK-47 leveled at the captain's back," a military official said ...

Maritime Domain Awareness for Trade — Gulf of Guinea (MDAT-GoG), the cooperation centre run by the UK and French navies, ...

He sailed from New-York for Montevideo on the 13th of February, with a cargo of lumber. On the 2d inst., being in lat. 29 15 N., long. 38 20 W., at daylight the second officer reported a steamer ...

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In December 2023, a month after the Iran-backed Houthi rebels started striking merchant ships, Somali pirates hijacked MV Ruen, a Maltese-flagged cargo ship from the Indian Ocean. That was the ...