Russian naval ships were ordered to pursue the freighter after the cape verde coastguard reported it was outside the country 's territorial waters to the north , russia 's ambassador to cape verde said .
In 2001 john howard , mr rudd 's predecessor , exploited public anxieties about boat people when he ordered troops to board a norwegian freighter , the tampa , to stop it bringing 430 rescued asylum-seekers to australia .
The reported attack raised concerns because piracy is almost unheard of in european waters , and it was not reported until after the freighter had passed through the english channel , where it subsequently went missing .
At esl 's addis headquarters , complete with portholes and model ships , the outgoing boss , ambachew abraha , remembers proudly his days as an engineer aboard the freighter queen of sheba .
In chittagong , bangladesh , workers take apart a freighter so the parts can be sold for scrap .
在孟加拉国吉大港(chittagong),工人们拆解一艘货轮,拆得的零件可作为废品卖掉。
The freighter carries a few passengers in addition to its cargo .
这艘货船除了货物之外还载有一些乘客。
The bainbridge is the ship from which us navy snipers killed three pirates who were holding richard phillips , the captain of the freighter maersk alabama , on board a drifting lifeboat .
Pirates fired rocket-propelled grenades and automatic weapons at an american ship carrying humanitarian aid off the coast of somalia in the fifth attack on a commercial vessel since the us navy 's rescue of a captured freighter captain .