Pirates Attack French Warship TWICE | October 2009 - April 2010
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- In June 2009, the French Navy's Replenishment Ship, the Somme, deployed to the Indian Ocean to act as the Command vessel for all French Naval forces operating in the region. What was intended to be a low-intensity, normal, deployment for the ships crew quickly turned into the extraordinary, as they had to fend off not one, but two attempts by pirates to board the Somme in the space of 6 months.
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French commander" You are free to go and swim ashore"
Pirate "We are 500 kilometers from shore!"
French commander "Good luck, now get off my ship!"
I'm sure the sharks would appreciate it.
War crime.
@@DarthVantos only if they live
@@hiteshadhikari you can kill pirates
We really have to go back to having pirates walk the plank.
Naval logistics ships don't often get the credit they deserve as the beating heart of a navy.
Without them, operating away from your own coastline is practically impossible, and in many of the largest navies they outnumber surface combatants.
Why do we need to operate away from our own coastline? If we kept our noses out of everyone's business and stopped starting wars, the world would be a better place.
God bless the merchantmen
@@Heike-- you noticed those pirates right? didn't stop being a problem till erryones navy was in their grills.
@@Toetalwar They started being a problem because we went into their countries and wrecked their shit. Maybe staying out of affairs that don't concern us is the way to go.
@Heike-- They are attacking ships transporting goods to our countries. It therefore makes it our business.
I'm only now realizing the patrolling navies could have cut down the piracy much faster if they had more systematically dressed up auxiliaries as commercial vessels
Just like Q ships.....
@@Lassisvulgaris Beat me to it...
Bringing back Merchant raiders for Anti piracy missions seems to be an interesting idea.
_Say pirates facing off the likes of Carmania, Cap Trafalgar, Rawalpindi, or Kormoran would be amusing to see._
Unfortunately, the anti-piracy measures appear half-serious at best, as most captured pirates never see justice even when sent on their way to court to places like Kenya. The most those warships actually do is deter and assist when they can when a vessel has been boarded. I couldn't tell you how many Documentaries and reports I've watched where the pirates got away with their action somehow in the end.
As just a guy on the internet with no anti-piracy experience around the horn of Africa, I hope I'm genuinely wrong about this, because this really seems like such a waste of time, money, and energy.
Shoot on sight would help too, maybe some drone grenades they'll soon stop altogether
Can't imagine the immediate "OH SHIT OH FUCK OH SHIT"
They where probably high on Drugs ...
Or the , " why is it always me " moment
These supply ship encounters are hilarious
Imagine the looks on their faces 🤣
@@toastmctoasting2807 after they understand a brown finger has gone up the wrong hole 😅
@@toastmctoasting2807 it was night time as mentioned in the video so they can't see the color.
@@toastmctoasting2807 It was night and Somme was against the moon, so all they could see was a black silhouet in moonlight.
I was on an RFA sailing up the coast of Oman when we came under attack by four pirate skiffs during the night. A burst of 30mm tracer into the air in their direction made them change their minds.
Wow what was the name of your vessel?
What a waste of ammunition. Should of used boats as target practice.
@@MyScubasteve RFA Fort George
@@fredblogs I totally agree!
@@roverboat2503 Wow so they removed the 20mm armament on the Fort George and replaced it with 30 mm DS30M? The Fort George was never fitted with 30 cal weapons was it?
It’s pretty insane how far offshore these little boats operate.
No it is not. They have a mothership.
@@gijsv8419 Yes, it is. Mothership or not.
@@skypucktrader9909 🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣🤣🤣🤣 has it got fuel in the tank for its engine and abit of water and food for the crew ,, yet could also been towed out by the mothership with a bit of rope ,,, that's insane ...
They generally operate with the help of nearby mother ships for fuel and other logistical support
The average Somali IQ is lucky if it hits 60 and the pirates are below average. What did you think was gonna happen? Reclaim the land and get rid of the Somalis
Do a video on the "Dai Hong Dan incident" where a North Korean cargo vessel was attacked by pirates and a US destroyer responded to their distress signal and came to their rescue. The 22 man crew of the cargo vessel attacked the pirates and managed to kill 2 of the 7 in a gunfight before the American ship arrived
Wait so the crew of the NK ship beat the Pirates on their own?
@@TheNicestPig From what I remember it seems like it. They only help they needed was medical attention from the Americans but apparently managed to handle the pirates and such on their own.
@@TheNicestPig well, both Koreas have conscription. The NK crew were able to defend themselves due to mandatory military sevice.
Was one of the rare case of North Korea leadership expressing gratitude to U.S.
I remember something like this, actually double checked cos I thought surely it must be a spoof. But there you have it
01:58 an admiral getting a parachutist badge is probably a story in itself.
You're maybe aware that Navies have commandos units too. Commandos are mostly parachute qualified.
@@thierrymilan2039 yes.
i think it is more common to be an admiral with avaitor wings than para. not very much available on the man - i did the google search magic and found very little on him.
hard to see his service ribbons - the para badge just seems to be an attention getter is all.
@@robertwittjr1198 Amiral Prazuck is the former Commander of the staff of the French Navy. He was also the Commander of the Fusiliers-Marins and Commandos Marine of the French Navy (Marines and Commandos), the reason he has the Paratrooper certificate.
@@robertwittjr1198 Amiral Prazuck was the former Chief of Staff of the French Navy. He was also previously the Chief of Staff of the Fusiliers-marins and Commandos-marine (Marines and Commandos in the French Navy). That's the reason he can wear the Brevet Militaire Parachutiste (Parachutist badge).
@@thierrymilan2039 thank you, sir, for that information.
Basically the equivalent of waking up a lion thinking it’s your sleeping dog 😂
So basically the dialogue must have went like this:
Pirate: I am pirate, I have gun, surrender, give me all your food and I let you live
Captain: Hi there, I am captain of a French warship *loads shotgun*
Pirate: Understandable, have a nice day!!!!
The Somme is supposedly armed with a 40 mm autocannon and multiple missile launchers, so the captain has a lot more than a shotgun to play with.
@@alltat She'll have at least one helicopter, probably more that will be armed with something lethal.
Look at me, I am not the captain now
More like loads the .50 cal machine gun.
"Very well, we will offer you food."
(pallet of food smashes through pirate boat)
(weeks later, hull of second boat is found afloat, baguettes sticking through the side, void of crew)
I have visions of the French crew leaning over the rails and taunting the pirates, lime in The Holy Grail.
"Your mother was a hamster, and your father smelled of elderberries".....
with the atrocious accent none the less :D
How many cow catapults are on French supply ships?
@@jamesweber1827 It's fish.
2:00 So the way to deal with pirates is to just charge at them like you can't wait to meet them?
F around find out type shit
that and also, designing supply ships as navy warships and also painting cargo containers color gray then painting rocket launcher holes on them posing as a multiple rocket launcher
@@verynice1192 Or installing real rocket launchers, just in case they finally understand its a civilian ship playing "who has the most balls" with them.
I would love to hear the conversation on those pirate boats when they realized they were shooting a military vessel and not a merchant ship
I do not understand why these damn pirates are not just sunk at sea. Why they are coddled is just beyond me.
Well, the Russians handled them better when they got attacked once by those Pirates.
Indeed, When the pirate quit coming back from sea the rest will reconsider their career choices.
@@Lyle_918 Doubt it. Sailors have always been lost at sea.......
Its about starvation. Most of them were fishermen. During the Somalian Civil war hundreds of foreign Factory trawlers illegally fished out just about every viable commercial fish species in Somali waters. Most of those men have no livelihood now, it was stolen from them by greedy foreign fishing concerns. They were, for the most part, subsistence fishers, which means they caught enough to feed their families with a bit left over to sell.
Now they are sat there watching their wives and children starve, but they still have their boats, and they live in a country where you can go to the market and buy AK's, ammo and old RPG's for pennies. What do you expect them to do? Starve? Or take back from the people who sat back and laughed as your livelihood was torn away from you by greedy, rapacious foreign fishers?
There are two sides to every story, and I am ashamed to say the tale I just told you is NOT simply a story. It is what happened.
The Russians just rob the pirates, then and kill them. Not always in that order.
The Westerns turn them to authorities. The authorities give the pirates a good beating, because they lost their boat, then send them back to sea.
Glad the pirate picked on the wrong ship. Well done french warship. Merci
The bottomline is that Somalis aren't the sharpest knives in the drawer.
It's not really the top of the people who become pirates
To be fair, starving and desperate people aren’t going to be debating intellectual schools of thought
To be fair, not like they have much access to know how a military ship looks aside from like, word of mouth at least, movies at most (if you're a mildly wealthy pirate)
90% of Somali pirates were fishermen. They are pirates because fishing fleets took advantage of the long Somalian civil war and illegally fished for years in their waters. Enough factory boats, for enough time that they totally crashed the populations of every viable commercial fish species in Somali waters.
Those boats belonged to many nations, including but not limited to China, Japan, France, Spain, the USA, the Netherlands, Belgium and so on. That fishing was totally and utterly, blatantly illegal. They had no permits to fish in Somali EEZ, let alone their Territorial waters. It was not only ignored, it was actively encouraged by some Governments.
So now those fishermen have no way to feed their families, because there are no damned fish for them to catch. What do you expect a bunch of fishermen with boats, who live in a country where they can go to the local market and pick up AK's and old RPG's for pennies to do?
Oh, and before you go on and blather about how the fisheries will recover... perhaps, perhaps not. Worse comes to the worse and it could be decades, perhaps never. Are there precedents for me saying this? Why, now you ask, yes, there are. In the 1980's the largest Cod fishery in the world collapsed, the Grand Bank Fishery in Canada. Despite a total moratorium of cod fishing in the area those fish still have not returned. 40 years later, there is some debate in the Marine Ecology community about whether they ever WILL return. Their niche has been taken over by several species of dogfish, the cod will need to compete their way back in, and there just are not enough of them.
And before you ask, yes, my Background is indeed Marine Ecology, including some years spent with various Fisheries departments.....
@@alganhar1 Somalia is a genuine 100% proof hellhole.
It's hard to believe the Somme could have fired machine guns, presumably .50 caliber at those little boats with out sinking them and killing or severely wounding their crews. they must have been deliberately missing. I think that if merchant ships were permitted to arm themselves, and shoot to kill, and naval ships did the same, that would do an awful lot to deter piracy.
Sadly warships only go for warning shots
The Somme applyed a warning shot in front of the small boat. That's the way it goes at sea laws enforcement.
Merchant ships are allowed to be armed by hiring Private security officers onboard (it is my job) it's been allowed since more than 10years and even if piracy in these place is something you can't eradicate, it has been lowered a lot compared to 2008/2015 period
It's hard to believe that someone does not understand the concept of a warning shot,, then your A*& makes this comment.
Yeah, I feel no pity for pirates. Sinking their skiffs and ships would be a great deterrent.
But, I think these Somali kids become pirates after hearing "success" stories among their peers. They get delusions of "fame and fortune" and go out on these pirate escapades hoping to feed their families (sad) or just get rich (delusional fairy tale) or look like a tough guy (pathetic). Arresting them and sending them home to courts that are probably corrupt is just going to have them out and repeating the same nonsense again. If you start eliminating the pirate threat when its faced: when a skiff shows up, either disable it and leave or sink it. If you sink it, those pirates will tell no tales to their friends back home. If a skiff is set adrift on the open seas, its likely the pirates will either die or nearly starve to death before being found. At best, they'll become disillusioned and return home with tales of dread or they'll die in their next encounter. In the end, I think the best way to end piracy is for Somali kids to think of piracy of a way to "disappear and never be heard from again or nearly starve to death".
Pirates wouldn't hesitate to delete any member of a ship's crew which is evident by them randomly firing at a ship I'm dumbfounded as to why these ships especially war ships don't operate with the same mindset because these Pirates know if they surrender they will be released and then return home to do the same thing again and again
France doesn't support death sentences, and they cannot be judged by us. And since their country will probably give them a death sentence, France refuses to give them to their country.
That's a Royal Canadian Navy Frigate taking a RAS from Somme at 3:23.
thought to myself "I swear I've seen this video already, surely they weren't dumb enough to do it again?" apparently so
Amid all the crap that is going on currently this really made me smile.
At first I didn't realize the small boats were being resupplied and supported by Dhows. But some of those small pirate boats venture out beyond visual sight of land, much further than most people would go without support. Glad the navies of the free world are patrolling these waters.
Good to know that the second skiff found itself alone and 700km offshore without the supply dhow’s support.
I never understood how piracy has become so romanticized.
It's an ugly, brutal, criminal way of life, with very high odds of an early and unpleasant death
An anachronistic barbaric "people" better off without
To be fair, life at the golden age of piracy was ugly, brutal and quite unfair.
Men's would be press-ganged in a navy ship without choice or signed a contract on a commercial one after being offered a couple of pints, often waking up under the deck after the ship sailed off the port with an hell of a hangover,crew rations were often full of maggots and for the navy the beef barrels filled with bones and rotten meat by unscrupulous merchants and corrupt inventory officer.
Life was hard on-board the ships, any mistake punished by the whip
In comparison piracy was (for a short time as the average pirate operated for 3 years) a good option.
Been looking forward to a new release for what feels like ages.
Mistakes were made 🤣
Twice
"it's even funnier the second time!"
I wonder what crossed their minds immediately after they started getting return fire from a 12.7 machine gun :))
Like bullies picking on the WRONG person.
Are they the bullies? Or it is the foreigners who keep dumping in their water?
@Fujitachi it's seems the links between poverty and crime is beyond your understanding.
@Fujitachi yeah they aren't just murdering people they are taking hostages for money. Which is context you left out of your rant. Poverty isn't a excuse it's a cause.
@Fujitachi okay you still haven't addressed the entire reason why this is happening. Their income has been destroyed by foreign countries literally also killing people. This was done by ships to keep costs low and cause they are moving hydrocarbons that also spill. Is that criminal behavior ? Is that not murder but on a massive scale?
Man what a waste of time and effort. Just put a dozen 20mm shots into those skiffs and no need for pursuit.
The second skiffs were dead men once the dhow was captured. They would have been stuck up the creek without a paddle (almost literally 🤣)
Immediately returning fire and sinking pirate boats will kill a dozen but educate hundreds not to try the same thing. I'd say that's a good deal.
In what way? If they didn't return, nobody would have known what happened to them....
@@Lassisvulgaris Even they are smart enough to figure it out.
@@matthewdavies2057 So, a boat goes out. Doesn't return. Conclusion: Sunk...?
@@Lassisvulgaris In that area, at night, I'd guess gunfire. If it kept on happening I'd guess warship and I'd quit.
@@matthewdavies2057 Gunfire from 400 kms away (Somme)? I doubt ANY ship will move close to the shore of Somalia....
BTW, those people are high on drugs, so I don't think they're capable of ANY thinking....
However, the last recorded attack was on 19.April 2019, so you may have a point, though pirates are still regarded as a threat....
Awesome I wanna hear more of something like these please it's a bit hard to find vids like this
A lover of your work. With love , from Kenya
Pirates should be dealt with summarily, on the spot.
Yes, we should lower ourselves to their level, and not behave like civilized people.....
@@Lassisvulgaris stop being a pathetic weakling. Blast the pricks apart and they wont do it again.
Your the reason these people get away this this behaviour
It wasnt long ago you just shot pirates. Can we please bring that back?
Pirates: hey, let's attack that ship
Navy ship: hahahahahahaha
It’s interesting that the French didn’t take them to France and actually charge them with piracy. Had it been an American vessel, that’s probably the absolute best the pirates could have hoped for.
And thats why they didn't did it. It would have cost a lot of money, as these ships don't come back to France very often it would have need a specially assigned plane or maybe month of onboard detention, and France would have had to pay for the trial and detention. And it could have encouraged a lot of people to rush to French warships, fire a few shell and surender to get a free immigration. So waste of money plus risk of "spam" of warships, which can be extremly dangerous.
@@justeunfan3364 Well, I can guarantee that nobody tried to attack any American ships after that one time in 2011.
@@Pub2k4 It was not a question of "daring to attack" XXXXX countrie's navy, their attack was a mistake. It could totally have been an american ship, and I think they wouldn't have brought them to the US either. These guys are not worth the money needed to imprison them.
No one willingly attacked a French or any nations vessel since years, it would be a declaration of war if from another navy, and a sucide if from 5 guys with 1 AK47.
@@justeunfan3364 I disagree. The US would have totally brought them to the US to face piracy charges. And I’m basing that off pre-existing precedent.
Thanks!
can only imagine they fire at a warship, suddenly they see a missile headen towards them from the ship
That’s true definition of fuck around and find out.
If only they were allowed to do such a thing. Seems like they arent, because they never seem to attack back with any real intent. Just warning shots and capture.
@@alexcrowder1673 The ship is not threatened by the pirates, all that migh happen is a bit of scratched paint, and if they are really agressive they'll be obliterated when closer. But if the warship fire at them and the newspapers learn it it may cause huge problems in their homeland. So its better to scare them, as they won't be stupid enought to charge a warship.
Thanks mate.
3:22 Canadian Halifax Class Friggit, unfortunetly I can't make out the registry on the side of the ship for the name of it but it was either the HMSC Montreal or Saint Johns due to the fresh paint job for the time of the picture. Fun fact of the day.
Another 🔥 vid
That must've been the surprise of a lifetime!
Like a pirate taking a bullet through the head, I died on the last word of each sentence.
Definitely refreshingly funny. I gotta say, tho, I think soon that this situation is going to repeat itself on a larger version of this. Stupid is as stupid does.
That fucking face when the pirates saw the mounted 50 cal mah deuces on the ship
Arresting pirates is counterproductive. UNLESS you make them walk the plank after capture.
There is a traditional punishment for “piracy on the high seas” the danse macabre
This is not the only Auxiliary Oil Replenishment Ship attacked by pirates. Armada's ship AOR A-14 Patiño was also attacked by pirates in 2012.
He’s done a video on that already
I love seeing the pirates getting shredded by massive projectiles off a war ship😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
I dont have much faith that those pirates were punished by their govts
Whatever government they have in those shitholes was getting a cut of whatever they stole.
Punishment was for not completing the mission
What government ? Are you aware about Somalia situation ?
Imagine it was US warship, those Navy and Marine onboard probably took the chance to teach their junior enlist how to operate those 50 cal.
Ah refueling, what fun!
I set foot in that ship, knowing that this story happened makes it even weirder lol
One of my absolute favourites!
it seems insane that these guys would risk piracy in the contemporary world until you notice that they all seem to weigh no more than 120 pounds when captured
I like how the Russians deal with them better.
French and more generally occidental navies can't do this, even if a lot of soldiers would love, because it could cause huge political problems if medias learn about it. Russians clearly don't care the same, and on this case they are clearly right.
Its like chasing a rooster and trying to catch it but then it stops and turns around, and you know that you messed up 😅
It'd make a good advert for an opticians... A pair of beat-up, old skiffs containing a handful of ragtag pirates opening fire on a ginormous, super-modern destroyer warship, with the headline "Should've gone to Specsavers"
The problem is that you won't find many or any Specsavers in Somalia. Or other opticians.
Its not even warship. Its just a cool supply ship with guns on military service.
What tune is he whistling? Sounds familiar but just can’t make it out!
It's so hilarious when pirates attack soldiers and not civilians! 😂
Looks to be a Canadian FFH City Class Frigate getting a R.A.S. at 3:22👍
*handed over to local authorities who assist in making sure they are trained better to not be caught again*
And how long after they were turned over to 'authorities' do you think it took to get them rearmed and back out on the sea?
I don't begrudge the action taken by the Somme. The good guys have laws, and tend to follow them. That is, after all, what separates the two poles of right and wrong, or good and evil, if you will. The rules say you must turn them over to so-and-so and even though you know they'll just maybe get a beating for getting caught, but will be back out hunting for prey before your ship's silhouette has faded into the distance, you must follow the rules.
A hard lesson taught here would maybe teach the next crew to think twice.
It seems like a few navy personnel with a stack of switch blade drones on every cargo ship could put an end to this real quick.
now that I think about it supplement ships might be the best pirate-hunting ships out there
This is like the modern day equivalent of Q-ships.
Shouldn't they realized that every merchant ships have a straight hull?
You try telling two gantry cranes apart from 12 miles out in the dead of night.
How can you see straight hull or not at side, in nighttime, and something that look like a regular ship on top?
The Pirates thought the French would surrender.
They should've sent them to Davey Jones Locker, where every pirate belongs.
Those have to be the worst pirates I've ever seen!😂
The French Navy is more generous that I would have been. I am so tired of pirates thinking that they can kidnap and hold people for ransom. I would not have captured them; I would have sunk their boats and dropped a ton of "Chum" into the water to attract sharks and then left to go on about my mission. If pirates learned what could happen to them I think that type of activity would immediately cease.
Like the pirates from Asterix…? That’s why reading is important. 😂
Les bateaux sont très biens
We need to go back to what they used to do to pirates in the old days.
Wonder when pirates will realize that if a ship is grey and got a number on it, its probably naval lol.
I see the first group of pirates graduated from the Prometheus school of running away from things
Looking at how supply vessels are look like, it can't be helped.
Perfect video length for wiping…
After several Dutch ships were attacked by Pirates always unsuccessfully, the Dutch have changed the rules for steaming in the northern Indian Ocean they now always fly a 20 by 40 ft flag at the Masthead to remind people that this is not a peaceful civilian ship! Yet that ships in the last 10 years have been attacked more than a dozen times! Always responded to lethally by the Dutch Navy!
At least the Somalia Pirates have never claimed to be rocket scientist. Apparently these guys can not tell a Warship from a Cargo Transport.
I'm surprised the Somme didn't spot the skiffs before the skiffs opened fire
Their equipment is not really made for detecting such low-tech.
@@flitsertheo even then, some nvgs would have surficed
wooden boats don't shines well on radars, plus as its very slow and unlikly to do any harm, why spending more money to track what would be fishermens 99% of the time ?
Brazen pirates! Next time they’ll attack a Nimitz battle group😅
There is only one way to ensure that the Pirates do not reoffend.
In the 1700s the French navy would have exercised much more VIOLENCE!
Whether by gun or by Rope.
The pirates were kind of smart in tossing their weapons overboard. They had some sense.
I wonder how Somalian authorities handle those accused of piracy and related offenses. How severe is the punishment? I can't imagine Somalian prisons are pleasant given they have citizens so desperate theyre willing to take over vessels and hold people against their will.
There is a problem. The situation is more complex, you are just looking at them as pirates. What you are not looking at is what they were before they BECAME pirates. The vast majority of them were fishermen.
How many people are talking about giving those Somali fishermen compensation for the hundreds of factory trawlers that literally fished Somali waters clean of commercially viable fish during their long civil war? How many people are talking about paying them for the livelihoods they lost because of greedy, rapacious Western and Asian Fishing concerns who were blatantly illegally fishing in Somali waters? There was no International outcry about this, some Governments actually ENCOURAGED it....
Those fishermen were subsistence fishers. They were catching enough to feed their families and sell a bit on the side. You remove the fish and people like that begin to starve, they get to watch their wives and kids starve.
So let me ask you a question, if you are watching your wife and kids starve, and you have access to a boat, and some guys come up to you and offer you payed employment, what do you do? Its not like you have options here. For most of those guys its piracy or starvation, there is no middle ground. We created the problem, but as usual its the Somali's who are really paying the price....
Maybe we should start purposefully designing pirate hunting ships to look like cargo and merchant ships
Pirates shall be sent to Davey Jones locker...Arrgghh!
The pirates were judge to France ans then released with 30.000€ reparation from France because of the "Bad treatment" they reveived from french Navy. True story.
U know that 2nd one got put to the bottom of the ocean lol.
Imagine doing WWI and WWII tactic against these pirates where armed merchant ships with guns tucked or hidden away deep inside the ships and when someone attack them they would reveal their guns and fire at any attackers threatening them. Imagine if they have that in 21st century where armed tankers or large cargo ship would reveal their 25mm or 30mm autocannon or fifty cal machineguns at least and open fire at approaching pirate skiffs. I know they use armed contractors onboard to repel boarders, but the autocannon option is much more of a stand off option before they come in close. I know it's not possible in real world especially with 21st century bureaucracy, but one can envision something like modern tanker or cargoship with hidden autocannons and machineguns deep in the hull or deck
The problem is, if you start putting autocannons on civilians ship mostly register in doubtful countries, how much time will it take for cannons disapearing from ships and being sold to random terrorist groups ? Or just places on pirate ships? How would a merkant ship detect pirates soon enought to be able to use them efficiently ? And I personnaly won't like to have a civilians boss or compagny reponsible for stocking and maintaining ammunition. It would cause way more problems than it would solve
At what point did the French surrender? Cause they're really good at that
Parley?
Maybe they though "oh it's the french, they will surrender if we do quick blitzkrieg"
and a week later they where back at it.....
Idk about you but RAS ship's are like the gray area between being military and civilian.
They attack at night, can’t see color
Don't shoot the men, sink their boat.Wait until they come along side and drop them a piano.
Seems to me that the best way to catch these pirates is to look like a unarmed commercial vessel and let them attack. Then give them some hell .