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Royal navy fends off pirate attack on Sagar Ratan

Support ship Fort Victoria helped thwart an attack as pirates fired rockets at a merchant ship off Oman. Ten pirates in a couple of skiffs made repeated efforts to storm the bulk carrier MV Sagar Ratan with boarding ladders. The vessel flashed a SOS as she took evasive maneuvers to defend some 150 miles southwest of the Omani capital Muscat. RFA Fort Victoria was the nearest naval vessel in the area and made straight for the 61,000-tonne merchant ships position, punching through heavy seas caused by a monsoon. t the same time, the American carrier USS Ronald Reagan launched two F/A-18 Hornets, which buzzed over the skiffs, still trying to storm the Singaporean-flagged Sagar Ratan. The combined effect of Fort Victoria presence, the US jets and the guile and bravery of the ship's crew members, who came under attack from five rocket-propelled grenades as they took evasive action, caused the pirates to break off their attack. More at http://en.portnews.ru/news/29125/