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Wednesday 24 April 2013

CAP THEODORA was attacked 2 times by pirates

The suezmax tanker CAP THEODORA  has been attacked two times in less than 1 week in gulf of Guinea.
The first attack was on April 16 in gulf of Guinea . The ship that was underway was approached by a speed vessel with 5-6 pirates in it.

The ship crew took effective maneuvers, started fire pump to repel borders and secured to save the ship from attack.After about 20 min the pirates gave up the attack.
                                                                                         cap Theodora
The ship is a greek flagged , build in 2008 by SAMSUNG in KOREA. The ship is of 81,324 grt and 158,819 dwt, It is operated by EURONAV , whic has a fleet of 30 tankers
The second attack was reported on April 22 ,Pirates tried to board the ship but  like first time they failed. Authority had say that the pirate attacks are now increased in the horn of Africa.

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