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Coast Guard cutter returns from counter-drug patrol after 65 days

The Coast Guard cutter Mohawk returned to its homeport in Key West, Fla., following a 65-day counter-drug patrol throughout the eastern Pacific Ocean and Caribbean Sea in support of U.S. Southern Command Joint Interagency Task Force — South, as well as the Coast Guard’s 11th District and 7th District.

The cutter Mohawk crew, with a deployed Coast Guard helicopter interdiction tactical squadron crew, interdicted four suspected drug vessels, apprehended more than 25 suspected drug smugglers and...

https://www.workboat.com/news/government/coast-guard-cutter-returns-from-counter-drug-patrol-after-65-days/

Spanish Navy patrol ship saves crew from pirates in Gulf of Guinea

The “Serviola” patrol boat, during its surveillance and maritime security operation in the Gulf of Guinea, managed to free the crewmembers of a merchant ship held by a group of nine pirates, on April 9.

During his patrol work in the area of ​​the Gulf of Guinea, within its mission of Maritime Security and Surveillance, the patrol boat “Serviola” freed the crew of a Nigerian flag merchant ship, which had been kidnapped for four days.

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