Cruise Ship Hijack Attempt

Pirates fire on US cruise ship in hijack attempt The luxury American cruise ship teeming with hundreds of tourists just might have been too much for the Somali pirates to.

Cruise ship hijack attempt. Seabourn Spirit a luxury cruise ship carrying 210 crew members and passengers was attacked by pirates off the coast of Somalia. They murdered Leon Klinghoffer an elderly wheelchair-bound American Jew and took some 320 crewmembers and 80 passengers hostage. Pirates fire on US cruise ship in hijack attempt Share this.

Cruise ships pose a far more complex scenario. 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. Pirates fire on US cruise ship in hijack attempt by Asharq Al-Awsat Dec 2 2008 Middle East NAIROBI Kenya AP Pirates chased and shot at a US.

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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 ship 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. On 7 October 1985 four Palestinian terrorists hijacked the Italian cruise ship Achille Lauro as it was sailing from Alexandria Egypt to Ashdod Israel.

Cruise ship with more than 1000 people on board but failed in their attempt to hijack the vessel as it sailed along a corridor patrolled by international. 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. Four Palestinian terrorists board the Italian cruise ship Achille Lauro shortly after it left Alexandria Egypt in order to hijack the luxury liner.

Riding in two small speedboats the pirates fired at the ship with machine guns and rocket-propelled grenades but the crew drove them off with a. The Venezuelan ship appears to have been trying to seize the cruise ship which is designed to safely sail through icy waters. NAIROBI Kenya AP Pirates chased and shot at a US.