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 ...

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 ...

Let's go through all the anti-piracy equipment that cargo ships have to keep pirates at bay ...

Many of them, in fact, had been in accidents because being a sailor, whether a pirate or not, was very dangerous. Rigging fell in storms, cargo and barrels shifted around, in battle you’d be hit ...

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Despite previous fears, there were no containers holding a hazardous chemical on a cargo ship which crashed in the North Sea ...

There are still reports of sporadic hijackings and attacks against smaller vessels for the purpose of fuel or cargo theft. Pirates on the high seas are adapting to new technologies and using ...

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 ...