Explorers unlock the mystery of ‘pirate king’ Henry Avery who vanished after huge heist at sea
Indian navy recaptures Somali pirate ship and frees crew
February 2024
Dogwatch review – seagoing mercenaries take on pirates in homoerotic meditation
Gregoris Rentis’s documentary tells the stories of three private guards waiting for an attack that never comes, but the socio-political reasons for their existence is never fully explored
May 2023
Seascape: the state of our oceans
Impact of warmer seas on fish stocks leads to rise in pirate attacks
Study of piracy hotspots in east Africa and South China Sea found that piracy increases when fish populations decline and vice versa
April 2023
Brief letters
Selling the dream the estate agent way
Woke the plank! Were pirate ships actually beacons of diversity and democracy?
January 2023
Murder, kidnapping and arson: Nigerian pirates switch targets from ships to shore
More security around the country’s coast means attacks on commercial vessels have dropped – but small fishing communities are facing brutal assault
March 2021
Opinion
The world has a vested interest in Somalia. Will it act to stop its collapse?
Vava Tampa
Starvation, al-Shabaab and postponed elections have made the country a ready gun. If the trigger is pulled, global trade is at risk
March 2020
Chennai Six member says Johnson did 'nothing' to secure release
Nick Dunn was arrested while working as a security guard on an anti-piracy ship in 2013
June 2019
Revealed: smuggling past of the Brontë sisters’ grandfather
Wuthering Heights and Jane Eyre might never have been published without patriarch’s ‘dirty money’, says new book
May 2019
Weatherwatch
Weatherwatch: giant whirlpool monitored from space
The Great Whirl, off the coast of Somalia, is believed to influence the Indian monsoon. Piracy in the area makes it difficult for scientists to study
January 2018
Fragments of book recovered from wreck of Blackbeard's ship
Remains of notorious pirate’s ship in North Carolina yield evidence that it was carrying a copy of Edward Cooke’s Voyage to the South Sea
December 2017
First of Chennai Six arrives back in UK from India
Billy Irving was one of six former soldiers jailed for weapons offences while working as guards on ship in Indian Ocean
November 2017
Chennai Six found not guilty, say 'delighted' families
Partner of one of former British soldiers Billy Irving says she is over the moon after Indian appeal court acquits 35 men
March 2017
Somali pirates release oil tanker and crew after first hijack for five years
Comoros-flagged ship and eight Sri Lankan crew are freed without payment of ransom after negotiations
Pirates demand ransom for oil tanker captured off coast of Somalia
European Union anti-piracy force confirms that armed men are onboard Comoros-flagged Aris 13 in first such seizure since 2012
Pirates hijack oil tanker off Somalia's coast
Officials say eight Sri Lankan crew were on board ship targeted in first hijacking of a large vessel since 2012
January 2017
How the US war on piracy brought one Somali to a West Virginia prison
Mohamed Hassan Farah lost his leg and his liberty in a gun battle with a US navy ship in 2010 and although he denies he was a pirate he faces life behind bars
October 2016
'We had to eat rats,' say sailors held by Somali pirates for four years
Somali pirates free 26 Asian hostages after four years
