Magellan Star
 A UH-1N Twin Huey helicopter monitors the command and control operations to free the captured Magellan Star from the air
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The Magellan Star is a container ship sailing under the flag of Antigua and Barbuda . The ship was managed by the Hamburg Quadrant Bereederungsgesellschaft mbH & Co. KG (since 2000 part of the "Reederei DS Schiffahrt") which belongs to Dr. Peters Group based in Dortmund .
history
The ship was from 2000 to 2002 under the hull number 1195 as the type of ship Sietas type 169 on the JJ Sietas KG Schiffswerft GmbH & Co. built. The keel was laid on December 5, 2000, the launch on March 28, 2002. The ship was completed in May 2002.
The ship was financed through the HCI Ship Fund I launched by HCI .
The ship took off on May 11, 2002 as the Gracechurch Star . It was sold by the ship fund in 2005.
Pirate attack off the Somali coast, September 6, 2010
Somali pirates hijacked the ship on the morning of September 8, 2010 ( 13 ° S , 50 ° E ). The Magellan Star was on its way to Singapore from Bilbao with a load of anchor chains .
The crew of the ship under the Polish captain consisted of six Filipinos , two Russians , two Ukrainians , and one Bulgarian . The Magellan Star was the third ship in a convoy accompanied by US warships at a distance of two nautical miles . The first ship in the convoy, the freighter Olig B sailing under the Maltese flag , was also attacked.
The Turkish frigate Gökçeada (F-494) of the Oliver Hazard Perry class of the multinational Combined Task Force 151 to combat piracy in the Horn of Africa received an emergency call from the freighter, whereupon the warship USS Dubuque (LPD-8) ( US -Marine ) deployed a 24-man Maritime Raid Force (MRF) from the 15th Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU) (1st Battalion 4th Marines) from the United States Marine Corps under the command of Lt. Col. Joseph R. Clearfield. The captain had switched off the engines in good time and locked himself with the crew in a safety room. From there he could make the emergency call with a satellite phone. The pirates could not find the crew. During the hijacking, the Somali pirates contacted the shipping company in Germany via a telephone number posted on the bridge for emergencies to ask where the crew was and how they could get the engines going. However, they received no answer.
After 20 hours in the hands of the pirates, the ship and crew were freed by the Dubuque boarding team on the morning of September 9, 2010 at 3:30 a.m. local time . Eight helicopters were used in the action. The Marines overwhelmed the nine kidnappers without an exchange of fire. Nobody got hurt. At 6.30 a.m. the soldiers disembarked with the detained pirates. The pirates were brought aboard the accompanying warship USS Princeton (CG-59) .
During the capture, the pirates destroyed the interior, control system and other parts of the ship. As a result, the ship was no longer fully seaworthy after the attack. Accompanied by a US warship, the Magellan Star drove to Dubai for a general overhaul . The Naval Criminal Investigative Service (NCIS) took over the investigation into this case.
Web links
Footnotes
- ↑ a b BRS Liner Newsletter No 24 - May 2002 ( Memento from January 19, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ) . Retrieved August 9, 2012.
- ^ Magellan Comet (Antigua and Barbuda) , Jane's Merchant Ships. Retrieved August 9, 2012.
- ↑ HCI performance report 2006 (PDF; 3.0 MB) , p. 130. Accessed on August 9, 2012.
- ↑ HCI Performance Report 2002 , p. 74. Retrieved on August 9, 2012.
- ↑ Brian Murphy: Marines retake ship hijacked by pirates ( Memento of May 5, 2012 on the Internet Archive ) , Marine Corps Times, September 9, 2010 (accessed September 11, 2010)
- ↑ a b Philipp Kienast: Cool crew turned pirates off , Frankfurter Rundschau , September 11, 2010 (accessed September 11, 2010)
- ↑ Pirates hijack German freighters with Russians , RIA Novosti, September 9, 2010 (accessed September 9, 2010)
- ↑ a b c d Simone Utler: Pirates ask shipping company for help with kidnapping , Der Spiegel , September 9, 2010 (accessed September 10, 2010)
- ↑ American Forces Press Service (September 11, 2010) Germany - Marines Seize Control of Ship From Pirates , GlobalDefence.net (accessed September 11, 2010)
- ↑ US Marines capture ship hijacked by pirates off Somalia , BBC News , September 9, 2010.
- ↑ US Navy rescues hijacked German freighter , Die Welt , September 9, 2010 (accessed September 9, 2010)
- ↑ dpa: “Magellan Star” on the way to Dubai , DVZ , September 10, 2010 (accessed September 10, 2010)