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This Is a Pirate Ship?

Forget your mental images of gleaming metal and swarthy men in trendy clothes. This is a picture of a pirate mothership from Somalia. Click on it for a larger version. You almost, almost, feel sorry for the poor buggers. Almost but not quite.

Members of a USS Gettysburg visit, board, search and seizure team and a U.S. Coast Guard law enforcement vessel approach a suspected pirate mothership after responding to a merchant vessel distress signal while operating in the Combined Maritime Forces area of responsibility as part of CombineTask Force 151 in the Gulf of Aden, May 13, 2009. Gettysburg, a guided-missile cruiser, is serving as the flagship of CTF 151, a multinational task force to conduct counter-piracy operations. U.S. Navy photo by Petty Officer 1st Class Eric L. Beauregard

Members of a USS Gettysburg visit, board, search and seizure team and a U.S. Coast Guard law enforcement vessel approach a suspected pirate mothership after responding to a merchant vessel distress signal while operating in the Combined Maritime Forces area of responsibility as part of CombineTask Force 151 in the Gulf of Aden, May 13, 2009. Gettysburg, a guided-missile cruiser, is serving as the flagship of CTF 151, a multinational task force to conduct counter-piracy operations. U.S. Navy photo by Petty Officer 1st Class Eric L. Beauregard

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  1. Peleliu Stops Pirate Attack
  2. Navy Tanker fights Off Pirates
  3. Navy Continues to Eye Pirates
  4. US Navy Aids Ship Released By Pirates
  5. US Navy Jugs Somali Pirates
  6. Navy Detains Somali Pirates
  7. Maersk Alabama Taken By Somali Pirates
  8. Navy Rescues Pirate Captive
  9. Pics From the Pirate Rescue Off Somalia
  10. This Is a Pirate Ship?
  11. USS McFaul nabs pirates off Oman
  12. Marine Hymn still echoes: Pirates taken down off Somalia
  13. German Navy Intercepts Somali Pirates
  14. Royal Marines Free Pirated Ship Off Somalia
  15. Pirate Mother Ship Taken Down, Sailors Freed
  16. Pirates Attack Spanish Warship
  17. Somali Piracy Update

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Members of a USS Gettysburg visit, board, search and seizure team and a U.S. Coast Guard law enforcement vessel approach a suspected pirate mothership after responding to a merchant vessel distress signal while operating in the Combined Maritime Forces area of responsibility as part of CombineTask Force 151 in the Gulf of Aden, May 13, 2009. Gettysburg, a guided-missile cruiser, is serving as the flagship of CTF 151, a multinational task force to conduct counter-piracy operations. U.S. Navy photo by Petty Officer 1st Class Eric L. Beauregard
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