Law Enforcement – Guardia Di Finanza fire 400 shots after Tunisian Fishing Trawler ram the patrol craft – 29.09.2020
400 shots were fired by a Guardia Di Finanza V 2000 Class patrol boat based at Vibo Valentia after another GdiF patrol craft was rammed by a Tunisian fishing boat. V 2023 and V 2014 (V 2000 Class) moored at Mazara Del Vallo back to 10th April, 2014. On Tuesday 29th September a small boat […]
Piracy – Shots Fired in Failed Pirate Attack – 27.03.2020
The 2010 built containership LANA successfully avoided being boarded by pirates while she was sailing through the Gulf of Guinea on her way to Tangier, Morocco from Doula, Cameroon last Friday, March 27th. The pirates, who numbered at least eight, approached the vessel via speedboat and attempted to board her when the latter’s crew began performing anti […]
AFM – 76 Migrants brought to Malta by P 62 – 22.11.2019
On Friday 22nd November, 2019 – The Offshore Patrol Vessel P 62 with 76 migrants onboard, including two toddlers under the age of five years old disembarked at Haywharf Base around 1115 hrs. On Twitter, the humanitarian NGO Alarm Phone said that on Thursday they were alerted that a boat fleeing Libya was in distress, […]
