Navy uses small boats to capture pirates closer to Somali coast
Hr.Ms. Johan de Witt has captured two so-called whalers off the Somali coast last week. Whalers are "pirate motherships," as Radio Netherlands says they are called, forward operating bases from which other pirate vessels are launched. By using the troop transporter Johan de Witt, the Dutch navy is mimicking the pirates' tactics: using a forward [...]
