Safety at Sea International
Monday, February 04, 2008
The 34.5m Svitzer Korsakov, which was on voyage from St Petersburg, where it has just been completed for deployment on Sakhalin island in the Russian Far East. It has a British master, Irish chief engineer and Russian chief officer plus three crew members on board.
Pirates attacked the tug and it is now at anchor in Somali waters, Svitzer says in a notice on its website. According to LR-Fairplay's SeaWeb database, the tug is flagged in St Vincent & the Grenadines.
Details are not given of exactly where the attack took place ...
Source: SSI, Feb 04, 2008