Taipan (ship)
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The Taipan is a multi - purpose ship formerly sailing under the German flag . It was attacked by Somali pirates in early April 2010 .
description
The ship was built in 2006 at the Spanish shipyard Naval Gijón, SA in Gijón . The keel was laid on March 9th and launched on October 22nd, 2006. It was completed on March 26th, 2007.
The ship has an eight - cylinder four - stroke diesel engine made by MAN Diesel & Turbo with a maximum output of 9600 kW . This acts on a controllable pitch propeller via a reduction gear . The ship has a bow thruster .
The hold of the ship is reinforced for heavy cargo and equipped for the transport of containers . The hull is reinforced with ice ( ice class E3).
The ship was as Taipan by the Hamburg shipping company Komrowski Befrachtungskontor KG (GmbH & Co.) bereedert . In the meantime (as of April 2018) the ship is in service as Contship Joy under the flag of Malta for the Jork- based company Conmar Shipping.
Pirate attack
The Taipan was attacked by Somali pirates in early April 2010. At that time it was chartered by the Israeli shipping company Zim Integrated Shipping Services ( צים) based in Haifa in the East Africa Service between Haifa, Djibouti , Mombasa , Dar es Salaam and Durban in South Africa .
The ship was attacked and boarded by ten Somali pirates on April 5, 2010 at 1.30 p.m. about 500 nm east of Somalia on the voyage from Mombasa to Djibouti. The 13 Taipan seamen , two Germans and three Russians as well as eight crew members from Sri Lanka , holed up in a security room of the ship and switched off the main engine of the ship from there. The pirates controlled the ship but could not move it towards Somalia.
The crew of the Taipan alerted a nearby German P-3C Orion reconnaissance aircraft via marine radio and the coordination office for the EU Atalanta mission (EU NAVFOR Somalia) via satellite telephone . This sent the frigate Mr. Ms. Tromp (F803) of the Royal Netherlands Navy to Taipan.
After attempts at contact from the frigate Tromp were unsuccessful with the pirates, the Mission Control decided to violent liberation of the vessel and sent a unit to the onboard helicopter type Sea Lynx for Taipan . The on-board helicopters shelled the area occupied by the pirate captain's bridge of the freighter. Then Dutch marines abseiled down to the forecastle, searched the ship and arrested the ten pirates. The crew of the Taipan took over the ship again and continued the voyage towards Mombasa. Those arrested were taken aboard the Tromp .
The Hamburg District Court issued arrest warrants for 10 April 2010 the ten arrested for attempted extortion kidnapping and attack on maritime transport. On April 14, 2010, you were flown from Djibouti to the Netherlands in a military aircraft and objected to the extradition requested by Germany . On June 4, 2010, a court in Amsterdam ordered her extradition. As of November 22, 2010, the ten Somalis had to answer for attack on maritime traffic and extortionate kidnapping before the large criminal chamber 3 of the Hamburg district court . The court closed the taking of evidence on January 20, 2012, the 70th day of the trial, but it was later resumed. The verdict was announced on October 19, 2012. The seven adults were sentenced to six to seven years imprisonment, the three adolescents to two years youth imprisonment. With 105 days of negotiations, the process was one of the longest in the history of the Federal Republic of Germany.
All Somalis were released from custody by the end of 2014. Four of them left for Somalia and one more for Sweden.
Deportation orders were issued against the other five . One of them was overturned by a court settlement , another procedure had not yet been legally decided at the end of March 2018. Two Somalis have applied for a residence permit and asserted protective relationships with family members who are entitled to stay. The fifth Somali was legally expelled but could not be deported .
documentation
- Ashwin Raman : Abduction at Sea - Somali Pirates and the Case of MV Taipan , SWR , 2014.
Web links
- Beelden boarding team Mr. Ms. Tromp van bevrijdingsactie koopvaardijschip Taipan , YouTube video of the boarding action , filmed from the helmet camera of one of the Dutch marines, May 2, 2010.
Footnotes
- ↑ a b c d e Fleetlist, M / V Taipan ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Komrowski Befrachtungskontor KG (GmbH & Co.) (accessed April 6, 2010)
- ↑ Encounters at sea . ( Memento from July 31, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ) CP Davenport.
- ^ A b c Frank Behling: Dutch soldiers storm cargo ships in Hamburg and free the crew . In: Kieler Nachrichten , April 5, 2010.
- ↑ a b Pirated German ship rescued - EU NAVFOR HNMLS Tromp retakes pirated MV Taipan . ( Page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Maritime Security Center (Horn of Africa), EU Naval Force (EU NAVFOR), April 5, 2010; Retrieved April 6, 2010
- ↑ P-3C Orion clears up suspected pirates . Djibouti press office, April 7, 2010.
- ^ German arrest warrant for Somali MS "Taipan" pirates . Spiegel Online , April 10, 2010.
- ↑ gxs / apn: The Netherlands extradite Somali pirates to Germany . In: Focus , June 4, 2010.
- ↑ Julia Ranniko: The Somali pirates are on their way to Hamburg . In: Hamburger Abendblatt , June 10, 2010.
- ↑ Hamburg pirate trial goes into the final round . ( Memento from September 7, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) In: THB - Deutsche Schiffahrts-Zeitung , January 24, 2012.
- ↑ Simone Utler: Verdict in a foreign country . Spiegel Online , October 19, 2012.
- ↑ see also answer of the Senate (April 3, 2018) to a small question .
- ↑ Hamburg cannot deport Somali pirates , Schleswig-Holsteinischer Zeitungsverlag , April 10, 2018.
