Seekonk captain piloting attacked freighter to port in Kenya | Rhode Island news |
projo.com | The Providence Journal: "SEEKONK — Capt. Shane Murphy, the mariner who helped repel a pirate attack on a cargo ship off the east coast of Africa, was safe and heading for Kenya yesterday, his wife said Thursday.
“He’s still in pirate-infested waters, but he’s moving away from the area of the attack,” Serena Murphy said outside her Central Avenue home.
On Wednesday, a band of armed Somali pirates attacked the Maersk Alabama, a 17,000-ton ship loaded with relief aid en route to Mombasa. The crew regained control of the United States-flagged vessel, but the pirates fled in a lifeboat with the ship’s captain, Richard Phillips, 53, of Underhill, Vt."
Saturday, April 11, 2009
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