Cruise Ship Hijack Attempt

However pirates have attacked a broad range of vessels with varying results.

Cruise ship hijack attempt. As part of its Learn from the past series SAFETY4SEA remembers the hijacking of the cruise ship Achille Lauro in 1985 by four heavily armed Palestinian militants who posed as passengers resulting to the brutal murder of one passenger. The last hijack happened in 2017 when Aris 13 was hijacked by pirates in two skiffs a few miles off Alula yet this was the first hijacking of a large commercial vessel since 2012. 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.

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. Kenya The luxury US. The attack lasted only two days.

Seabourn Spirit a luxury cruise ship carrying 210 crew members and passengers was attacked by pirates off the coast of Somalia. Pirates chased and shot at a US. But where you sail.

They murdered Leon Klinghoffer an elderly wheelchair-bound American Jew and took some 320 crewmembers and 80 passengers hostage. NAIROBI Dec 2 Pirates chased and shot at a US 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. 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.

Pirates chased and shot at a US. The Venezuelan ship appears to have been trying to seize the cruise ship which is designed to safely sail through icy waters. On 7 October 1985 four Palestinian terrorists hijacked the Italian cruise ship Achille Lauro as it was sailing from Alexandria Egypt to Ashdod Israel.

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