Japanese Oil Tanker Attacked Near Yemen
A Japanese oil tanker has been hit by a rocket:
TOKYO (AP) — An unidentified ship fired on a Japanese oil tanker Monday off the eastern coast of Yemen, leaving a hole from which hundreds of gallons of fuel leaked, the ship’s operator said. No one was injured.
The 150,000-ton tanker Takayama was attacked about 270 miles off the coast of Aden in southwestern Yemen while it was heading for Saudi Arabia, its Japanese operator, Nippon Yusen K.K., said in a statement.
None of its 23 crew members — seven Japanese and 16 Filipinos — was injured, the company said. The tanker had left the South Korean port of Ulsan on April 4.
Update: Several readers have pointed out that the article quoted failed to give credit to the German frigate that chased the prates away.
The tanker Takayama had sent out a radio distress call, ‘Tanker has been shot at and hit by armed boat,’ the German armed forces said near Berlin.
The Emden, a German frigate patrolling the Somali coast as part of Operation Enduring Freedom, picked up the distress call and headed straight to the scene, sending a helicopter ahead to reconnoitre.
The pirates had fled in their speedboat by the time the Navy helicopter arrived at the scene, said a spokesman for the operational command at Potsdam, near Berlin, adding that the mere threat of naval force had been sufficient to make them flee.
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oh shi-
german warship camo to their rescue
Why is there no information about how they escaped or who rescued them???
translated from a german website: “In the sea area between Yemen and Somalia patrolled by the Bundeswehr-frigate “Emden” has rescued the Japanese oil tanker “Takayama” from Somali pirates assault . After the tanker was pursued by five speedboats and hit by a rocket, the captain put out an emergency call. The “Emden” immediately sent a Navy helicopter, said a spokesman from the Operational Command of the Armed Forces in Potsdam. Also, the frigate took courses on the tanker. On arrival of the helicopter the pirates had left. The Emden is in the Gulf of Aden for the fight agaisnt international terrorism. It assumes monitoring tasks in the fight against international terrorism. The engagement against pirates is usually not part of their work, said the spokesman. In this case, it was an “emergency” action, as no other ship was as close as the “Emden”"
http://www.abendblatt.de/daten/2008/04/22/872196.html
Yeah, so gas prices went up. Hundreds of gallons lost in the ocean so gas prices go up.
YaY japanese german friendship forever \^_^/ nihon to doitsu banzai! Weiter so Bundeswehr. =) (go on like this bundeswehr) I think there should be more activities between japan and germany. I realy like japan and the japanese and so i welcome you to germany xD But i can only speak for myself of course. ^^;