Samho Jewelry
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The Samho Jewelry is now under the name TSM Dubhe propelled product and chemical tankers . The ship was attacked by Somali pirates in January 2011 in the Arabian Sea and freed by units of the South Korean Navy after six days .
history
The ship was under the hull number 1671 on the shipyard Usuki Shipyard in Japan built for belonging to the Fairfield-Maxwell Group shipping company Fairfield Japan. The keel was laid on March 22, 2001. The launching of the ship took place on July 26th, with completion on 12 November 2,001th
The ship came underway as the Fairchem Maverick under the Panamanian flag . In 2006 it was sold. The new name of the ship now sailing under the flag of Malta was Samho Jewelry . From 2018 the ship was called Global Aker . In 2018 it was sold again and is now operated as TSM Dubhe under the Tuvalu flag .
Pirate attack in January 2011
The ship was attacked by Somali pirates on January 15, 2011 in the Arabian Sea around 350 nautical miles southeast of Muscat , Oman , and around 800 nautical miles northeast of Somalia . It was on its way from the United Arab Emirates to Sri Lanka . 21 crew members were on board : eight seamen from South Korea , two from Indonesia and eleven from Myanmar .
The crew holed up in a shelter, which was broken into by the pirates. The pirates forced the captain to steer the ship to Somalia. He tried to keep the ship away from Somali waters by changing courses . He also polluted the fuel in order to provoke malfunction of the engine, pretended that the controls would not work properly and reduced the ship's speed from 14 to 6 knots. When the pirates became suspicious, they mistreated the captain and seriously injured him.
The South Korean Navy, which was involved in the multinational military operation against piracy in the Gulf of Aden , sent the destroyer Choi Young to the sea area to pursue the hijacked tanker. This has meanwhile been used by the pirates as a base for attacks on other ships.
On January 21, 2011 forces of the "Underwater Demolition Team", a special unit of the South Korean Navy, boarded the ship as part of "Operation Dawn in the Gulf of Aden" and freed the crew. Eight pirates were killed and five captured. Three soldiers were injured. During the operation, the captain was able to transmit warnings to the emergency services by radio, whereupon the pirates shot him. Four bullets hit him, two of them in the abdomen.
After the action, the captain was flown to a hospital in Oman and later to South Korea. He was operated on several times. The liberated ship first called at Salala in Oman. There the crew was exchanged and the ship examined for possible damage. The captured Somali pirates were flown to South Korea and brought to justice there. The pirate leader was later sentenced to life imprisonment and three other pirates were sentenced to 13 to 15 years imprisonment. A fifth pirate who confessed to the crime was sentenced to 12 years in prison. The judgments were upheld by the South Korean Supreme Court in December 2011. As a result of the rescue operation, Somali pirates threatened to kill South Korean hostages in the future in revenge for the pirates who had died.
In November 2011, the captain of the ship received the “Award for Exceptional Bravery at Sea” from the IMO for his bravery and his efforts to rescue the ship and crew.
Technical specifications
The ship is powered by a MAN B & W - diesel engine (type: 6S42MC) with 6150 kW power driven. The two-stroke , six-cylinder engine was built under license by Hitachi Zosen Diesel & Engineering. The engine acts on a propeller . The ship reaches a speed of almost 16 knots . The ship is equipped with a bow thruster .
Three Yanmar diesel generators, each with an output of 440 kW (550 kVA apparent power ), are available for power generation.
The deck superstructures are located in the rear of the ship. There is space for 24 crew members on board. The cargo holds with a total of 20 cargo tanks and the two manifolds for cargo handling on deck are located in the midship area in front of the superstructure . A crane arranged here is used to take over the hose.
Others
The Samho Jewelry was the second Samho Shipping ship to be attacked by Somali pirates within a year. In April 2010 the Samho Dream was kidnapped. The pirate raids contributed to Samho Shipping's financial difficulties in 2011. The company was dissolved in 2012.
The "Operation Dawn in the Gulf of Aden" is the basis of two books: Operation Dawn in the Gulf of Aden and the scourge of piracy by Bernd Horn and Operation Dawn by Jeonghyum Kim. The filming of the operation was planned.
Web links
- Pictures of the liberation of the ship ( A Daring Rescue , The New York Times)
- Recordings of a helmet camera before the liberation of the ship
Individual evidence
- ^ History , Fairfield Japan. Retrieved August 1, 2018.
- ↑ Korean forces kill pirates, free Samho Jewelry , Marine Log, January 2011. Retrieved August 1, 2018.
- ↑ a b c d South Korea rescues Samho Jewelry crew from pirates , BBC News , January 21, 2011. Retrieved August 1, 2018.
- ^ A b c d Su-Hyun Lee, Kevin Drew: South Korea Rescues Crew and Ship From Pirates , The New York Times , January 21, 2011. Retrieved August 1, 2018.
- ↑ a b c IMO Award for Exceptional Bravery at Sea 2011 goes to hijacked ship Master Captain Seog Hae-gyun of the Republic of Korea , International Maritime Organization , November 23, 2011. Accessed August 1, 2018.
- ↑ Jun Ji-hye: Fourth anniversary of Aden operation held on Navy destroyer , The Korea Times , January 21, 2015. Retrieved August 1, 2018.
- ↑ Soldiers free 21 hostages from "Samho Jewelry" , Die Welt , January 21, 2011. Retrieved on August 1, 2018.
- ↑ a b Somalis accused of piracy are flown to South Korea , BBC News, January 30, 2011. Retrieved August 1, 2018.
- ↑ Korean crew of Samho Jewelry expected to return home late next week , The Korea Herald , January 22, 2011. Retrieved August 1, 2018.
- ↑ Trial of Somali Pirates Begins , The Chosun Ilbo, May 24, 2011.
- ↑ John M. Glionna: 5 alleged Somali pirates arrive in South Korea to face trial , Los Angeles Times , January 31, 2011. Retrieved August 1, 2018.
- ↑ Pirate chief gets life term , IHS Fairplay, May 27, 2011.
- ↑ Supreme Court upholds Somali pirate's life sentence , The Korea Herald, December 22, 2011. Retrieved August 1, 2018.
- ↑ Abdiqani Hassan: Somali pirates threaten to kill Korean hostages , Reuters , January 23, 2011. Retrieved August 1, 2018.
- ↑ a b MT Global Aker , Bronco Shipbrokers. Retrieved August 1, 2018.
- ^ Taken Down , Maritime Security Review, April 28, 2011. Accessed August 1, 2018.
- ↑ Samho Shipping in Receivership , Seatrade Maritime News, April 28, 2011. Retrieved August 1, 2018.
- ↑ Crystal Chan: "Troubled" VLCC auctioned off for scrapping , IHS Fairplay, July 29, 2014.
- ↑ Carry On Commandos , Marsec Review, February 9, 2011. Retrieved August 1, 2018.