Whoops: turns out the Indian Navy didn’t sink a Pirate Ship last week, they sunk a hijacked vessel instead

Category: Odd + Funny Author : Duncan Riley Posted: November 26, 2008
Tags : fail, indian navy, pirates, somalia
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Whoops: turns out the Indian Navy didn’t sink a Pirate Ship last week, they sunk a hijacked vessel instead

The war on Somali Pirates celebrated its first victory last week when news went around the world that the Indian Navy had managed to sink “the mother pirateship” off Somalia. It was a good line, but it turns out the Indian Navy didn’t even come close.

What the Indian Navy sunk was a Thai fishing trawler that had been hijacked by pirates. Oh, and there was at least one innocent crew member on board the boat as well. Fourteen other crew are “missing.”

A Cambodian sailor was rescued four days later by passing fishermen and now recuperating in a hospital in Yemen confirmed the story.

Failing to accept responsibility, an Indian Navy spokesman claimed they were fired upon by the ship and reacted to that, after all its really difficult to spot the difference between a fishing boat and “pirate mothership.”

Ship loads of fail in this case, well one ship load of fail anyway.

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T 1 month ago 1 point
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Can the author wonder what a "Thai fishing trawler" doing in Bay of Eden way away from it's area of operation?
Add to this what was there no Thai employees on board?
Just shows that it was on a illegal fishing round and got hijacked by the pirates.
The owner is blowing the trumpet because the insurance will not pay him for illegal fishing.

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Vijay 1 month ago 1 point
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OOps the brilliant media. How do you come to the conclusion that the Pirates do purchase ships for their piracy activities. Do you think that it's a legal business in which they make initial investment?

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Vijay 1 month ago 1 point
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Error. Just because it was a Thai fishing trawler at some point of time never means when the IN fired it's still a fishing trawler. At the time it was indeed a Pirate mothership. Use words wisely.

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WVMikeP 1 month ago 1 point
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So, cutting through the sarcasm, just what does a pirate mothership look like?

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Matt B (Thanet Star) 1 month ago 1 point
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Generally a mother ship is the ship that tends the others in the fleet "as mother". Surely you SciFi geeks should know that it's the big one. Generally in shipping we talk of "the flag ship" anyway. That being the best ship in the fleet with the highest ranking officer on board. As these terms also do not count when there is one ship I fail to see how any such terms apply. But if a fishing boat was "mother" that makes all the others pathetically small.

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