Wave Knight abandons chivalry in Somali hijack incident
published this on 10:44 pm, Friday, 13th November, 2009News| defence | Comments (rss) | Respond | Ping |
This is the Royal Navy’s 31,000 tonne tanker, RFA Wave Knight. She is almost 200 metres long with a beam of over 28 metres.
She has a crew of up to 100 – 72 Royal Fleet Auxiliary personnel with provision for another 26 Royal Navy personnel for helicopter and weapons systems operations.
She has two 30 mm cannon and four 7.62 mm machine guns.
This 615ft armed ship sat within 50ft of the 38ft yacht Lynn Rival and simply watched as Paul and Rachel Chandler were taken hostage, hijacked by 2 small fast skiffs with 13 pirates on board.
Wave Knight was afraid that any intervention might cause injury to the captives.
An anonymous member of the crew was so disgusted at this that the information on Wave Knight’s inaction was leaked to the media.
And we talk about a Ministry of Defence.
The image of RFA Wave Knight above is cropped from a photograph by copyright holder Dmgerrard and is reproduced here under the Creative Commons licence.
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February 9th, 2010 at 7:47 pm
Thank you for the credit.
Pity about the standard of reporting.
February 9th, 2010 at 11:21 pm
For DM Gerrard: Pity about the standard of protection.
March 7th, 2010 at 9:27 pm
For Newsroom,
Shame you dont know all the facts, and shame you’re bothered about two individuals who probably dont even contribute to the british government tax system for being out the country for more months than actually in the country…not to mention the idiotic notion that entered their heads when they woke up one day and though ” I know, Ive heard all about these pirates and their goings on, lets go to the Somalian Coast and see if we can see any activity going on”.
Idiots.
Further more to this silly carry on, the government WILL NOT be bailing them out for their stupidity will only encourage the piracy game to evolve into a vicious cycle of pirates seeing what they can hijack next to get some money out of the British Government for the second, the third or even the 50th time! Do you really want our taxes to be spent of bailing out idiots who dont watch the news or take advice from officials?! I didnt think so. How about we spend our taxes on sorting out the idiots in the first place in education…then they might not get themselves into such a stupid mess.