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2024 in piracy included 33 reports of maritime piracy and armed robbery against ships to the International Maritime Bureau during the first quarter of the year. Incidents included 24 vessels boarded, six of which experienced attempted attacks; two hijacked; and one fired upon. Crew continued to suffer violence, with 35 crew taken hostage, nine ...
Events. June 3 - Danica White owned by H. Folmer & Co. is hijacked 240 nautical miles (440 km) off the Horn of Africa.
Forced labour and Slavery. The Turkish Abductions ( Icelandic: Tyrkjaránið [ˈtʰɪr̥caˌrauːnɪθ]) were a series of slave raids by pirates from Algier and Salé that took place in Iceland in the summer of 1627. [1] The adjectival label " Turkish " ( Icelandic: Tyrkja) does not refer to ethnic Turks, country of Turkey or Turkic peoples in ...
Piracy in Indonesia. Piracy in Indonesia is not only notorious, but according to a survey conducted by the International Maritime Bureau, it was also the country sporting the highest rate of pirate attacks back in 2004, where it subsequently dropped to second place of the world's worst country of pirate attacks in 2008, finishing just behind ...
Wealth. £500,000 - £2,000,000. John Ward ( c. 1553 [1] – 1622), also known as Birdy or later as Yusuf Reis, was an English pirate who later became a Corsair for the Ottoman Empire operating out of Tunis during the early 17th century. According to writer Giles Milton, Jack Ward was an inspiration for Jack Sparrow of the Pirates of the ...
A. Albanian people from the Ottoman Empire (10 C, 256 P) Ottoman architecture in Albania (2 C, 27 P)
List of pirates. This is a list of known pirates, buccaneers, corsairs, privateers, river pirates, and others involved in piracy and piracy-related activities. This list includes both captains and prominent crew members. For a list of female pirates, see women in piracy. For pirates of fiction or myth, see list of fictional pirates .
