Pirates Attack French Military Replenishment Ship SOMME – 6 Pirates Captured

Northwood, Middlesex–(ENEWSPF)–21 April 2010.  During the night of 19th April 2010, 400 nautical miles from the coast of Somalia, French replenishment ship SOMME came under attack from two skiffs with six pirates on board.

FS SOMME had been engaged in a support mission for the EU NAVFOR anti piracy operation Atalanta, replenishing her supplies, when she was attacked during the night of 19th April 2010.  The pirates, mistaking the SOMME’s silhouette for that of a…