Tag: Somalia
Uneventful Somalia mission ends for Navy task force
Two Royal Thai Navy ships that spent 140 days patrolling waters off Somalia returned to Sattahip last month after an error-free, and otherwise...
Navy’s Somalia mission commander returns
The head of the Royal Thai Navy’s anti-piracy task force in the Gulf of Aden made an early return to Thailand as his...
Sattahip navy ships save Thai cargo vessel from hijacking off Somalia
Two Sattahip-based naval vessels on an anti-piracy mission off Somalia rescued a Thai cargo ship from being hijacked in the Gulf of Aden. ...
Navy task force ships out of Sattahip for 2nd Somali mission
Two Royal Thai Navy vessels have shipped out from Sattahip to begin Thailand’s second mission to battle pirates off the coast of Somalia....
368 Thai naval personnel leave for international anti-piracy mission off Somali...
CHON BURI, July 12 – The second deployment of the Royal Thai Navy anti-piracy unit with 368 naval personnel left Thailand Tuesday morning...
Thai navy returns to Somalia for 2nd anti-piracy tour
Royal Thai Navy ships will return to the Gulf of Aden for their second mission against Somali pirates. The...
Navy ships return from Somalia mission marred by failure to...
Two Sattahip-based naval vessels made a muted return to Thailand after a 137-day mission to Somalia marred by the failure to rescue 27...
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