Amber Zone - Pirate Nugget

Last Updated 22 May 2005.

By: JMM
From: traveller@mpgn.com [Digest 595]
Dated: Tue, 13 Feb 1996

Subject: Real World Pirates
[J's comments, 595]

I saw this brief in Monday's Financial Times and thought it was very Trav-ish. In the spirit of returning the list to an rpg resource rather than a spitting match, I thought maybe someone could convert this to a TNS bulletin for their campaign.

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CHINESE 'PIRATE' SHIP HELD

The Philippine Navy seized a suspected Chinese pirate ship and its 20 crewmen over the weekend after they tried to ram a navy boat in a gun battle north-west of Manila, Reuter reports from Manila. There were no casualties in the second sea clash in three weeks between the Philippine Navy and suspected Chinese vessels off the Subic Bay free port, an area notorious for pirates.

Two navy patrol ships and a gunboat engaged the vessel, driving it back to land with heavy gunfire. Capt Ernesto de Leon, who commanded the navy force, personally briefed President Fidel Ramos on the incident.

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Respectfully,

JMM

P.S. Everyone should just think happy thoughts. :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-)

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