Pirates shoot at, chase MSC ship

**Ordinaryseaman** · May 7th, 2009, 10:50 AM

Anyone see this?

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090507/...malia_piracy_2

Pirates fire on a US navy vessel- we run

**tengineer** · May 7th, 2009, 12:01 PM

It's a dry cargo ship. Perhaps they could have thrown potatoes ?

**Ordinaryseaman** · May 7th, 2009, 01:07 PM

I'll admit that I don't know much about MSC- but I was under the impression that all MSC ships had small arms...

**JDay** · May 7th, 2009, 08:16 PM

Originally Posted by Ordinaryseaman

I'll admit that I don't know much about MSC- but I was under the impression that all MSC ships had small arms...

They do, wonder why there was no return fire. These ships also have a military detachment aboard.

**JDay** · May 7th, 2009, 09:53 PM

There's another story on this incident on CNN, the pirates never made it closer than one nautical mile. This explains why the ships security team did not open fire.

http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/africa...led/index.html

**Ordinaryseaman** · May 8th, 2009, 12:51 PM

Thanks- that explains a lot

**ChEB** · May 8th, 2009, 04:33 PM

T-AKE 1 was in the news not to long ago. They converted one of her cargo holds into a prison and can hold up to 26 prisoners. The US Navy has been using her to hold captured pirates. She has Marines and plenty of security.