Pirates Attack French Warship TWICE | October 2009 - April 2010

In June 2009, the French Navy's Replenishment Ship, the Somme, deployed to the Indian Ocean to act as the Command vessel for all French Naval forces operating in the region. What was intended to be a low-intensity, normal, deployment for the ships crew quickly turned into the extraordinary, as they had to fend off not one, but two attempts by pirates to board the Somme in the space of 6 months.
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[livethforevermore]

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[guyorsini]

French commander" You are free to go and swim ashore"
Pirate "We are 500 kilometers from shore!"
French commander "Good luck, now get off my ship!"

[DerpsWithWolves]

Naval logistics ships don't often get the credit they deserve as the beating heart of a navy.
Without them, operating away from your own coastline is practically impossible, and in many of the largest navies they outnumber surface combatants.

[blueboats]

I'm only now realizing the patrolling navies could have cut down the piracy much faster if they had more systematically dressed up auxiliaries as commercial vessels

[melle]

These supply ship encounters are hilarious

[roverboat]

I was on an RFA sailing up the coast of Oman when we came under attack by four pirate skiffs during the night. A burst of 30mm tracer into the air in their direction made them change their minds.

[Model_Guy]

Can't imagine the immediate "OH SHIT OH FUCK OH SHIT"

[skypucktrader]

It’s pretty insane how far offshore these little boats operate.

[FrAnCsCoN]

Do a video on the "Dai Hong Dan incident" where a North Korean cargo vessel was attacked by pirates and a US destroyer responded to their distress signal and came to their rescue. The 22 man crew of the cargo vessel attacked the pirates and managed to kill 2 of the 7 in a gunfight before the American ship arrived

[emiliospowerballer]

So basically the dialogue must have went like this:

Pirate: I am pirate, I have gun, surrender, give me all your food and I let you live
Captain: Hi there, I am captain of a French warship *loads shotgun*
Pirate: Understandable, have a nice day!!!!

[jayjay-xkzn]

Glad the pirate picked on the wrong ship. Well done french warship. Merci

[archstanton]

I have visions of the French crew leaning over the rails and taunting the pirates, lime in The Holy Grail.

[robertwittjr]

01:58 an admiral getting a parachutist badge is probably a story in itself.

[rfmxqfz]

2:00 So the way to deal with pirates is to just charge at them like you can't wait to meet them?

[arch]

I do not understand why these damn pirates are not just sunk at sea. Why they are coddled is just beyond me.

[MrWilmaDickfitt]

I would love to hear the conversation on those pirate boats when they realized they were shooting a military vessel and not a merchant ship

[LostSouLVL]

The bottomline is that Somalis aren't the sharpest knives in the drawer.

[zarco]

Man what a waste of time and effort. Just put a dozen 20mm shots into those skiffs and no need for pursuit.

[odysseusrex]

It's hard to believe the Somme could have fired machine guns, presumably .50 caliber at those little boats with out sinking them and killing or severely wounding their crews. they must have been deliberately missing. I think that if merchant ships were permitted to arm themselves, and shoot to kill, and naval ships did the same, that would do an awful lot to deter piracy.

[MarcG]

Pirates wouldn't hesitate to delete any member of a ship's crew which is evident by them randomly firing at a ship I'm dumbfounded as to why these ships especially war ships don't operate with the same mindset because these Pirates know if they surrender they will be released and then return home to do the same thing again and again