Magellan Star: Marines for hours talked to pirates

Staff Sgt. Thomas Hartick of Oceanside led the initial assault team that boarded the ship, which was adrift about 85 miles southeast of Mukallah, Yemen.

Using a translator, the Marines tried for several hours to persuade the pirates - young men, some shoeless and some wearing sandals, to surrender. After getting the go-ahead from the White House and the Pentagon, the Marines boarded small assault boats, sped to the Magellan Star and climbed aboard. The Marines didn't have to fire any shots, but they did use "flash-bang" grenades as they entered ship compartments in search of all nine pirates.

Magellan Star: MEU needed 3.5 hrs.to reach crew

After disabling the ship, the crew barricaded itself so well below-decks that it took the Marines from the Battalion Landing Team 1/4, 15th Marine Expeditionary Unit [MEU]. about three hours to reach them to let them know the ship had been retaken -- and only then after they were forced to cut their way through some of the ship's bulkheads.

Magellan Star: DS Boxship rescued by U.S. Marines

around 5 a.m. on Thursday, two 12-man Marine teams in inflatable boats motored up to the hijacked ship, a 436-foot-long German-owned cargo vessel called the Magellan Star. A band of Somali pirates had seized the ship and its crew of 11 in the Gulf of Aden, between Yemen and Somalia, on Wednesday morning. It was carrying steel chains.

The marines clambered up portable ladders — much as pirates have been doing — and swiftly took over the ship.

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