Name Buccaneer Port of registry Italy Crew 16 Length 75 m | Owner Micoperi Identification IMO number 8015831 Launched 1981 | |
The MV Buccaneer is a commercial tugboat captured by Somali pirates on 11 April 2009. 10 of the 16 crew members are Italian. The others are five Romanians and a Croatian.
Buccaneers were pirates who attacked Spanish and French shipping in the Caribbean Sea during the late 17th century.
Negotiations
Italy's former foreign undersecretary Margherita Boniver was sent to Somalia as a special envoy of Italian Foreign Minister Franco Frattini to negotiate the release of the vessel.
References
MV Buccaneer (1981) Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA