“A U.S. destroyer thwarted a pirate attack on a Turkish-flagged merchant ship in the Gulf of Aden yesterday, the Turkish military said.
Turkey notified a unified command center of the attack on the ship, the 26 Agustos, and the U.S. Navy destroyer USS Shoup was dispatched to the vessel as its crew sought refuge in a machinery room, the army said in a statement released today.. “
(Source: U.S. Destroyer Thwarts Pirate Attack on Turkish Merchant Ship – Bloomberg)
