On Saturday, a guided missile struck the United Arab Emirates' HSV Swift, a high-speed ferry formerly operated by the US Navy off the coast of Yemen, prompting the US to respond with two guided-missile destroyers and an amphibious transport dock ship from the USS Dwight D. EISENHOWER carrier strike group, Fox News reports.
The Malaysian Maritime Enforcement Agency (MMEA) seized two ships suspected of illegal transfer of oil and another for docking without valid documents in the waters off Pengerang yesterday. "The two vessels were detained when the MT Vitalogy, which was registered in Equatorial Guinea, was in the midst of transferring 80,000 litres of marine oil to …
The Sasebo-based amphibious dock landing ship USS Ashland (LSD 48) rendered assistance to two distressed mariners, Oct. 25, whose sailboat had strayed well off its original course.