[Ammi]

Police and coastguard officers are dealing with reports of an attempted hijacking of a Liberian-registered tanker off the Isle of Wight on Sunday afternoon.

The vessel, the Nave Andromeda crude oil tanker, was said to have been forced to anchor south of Sandown.

A Hampshire police spokesman said: “We are aware and dealing with an ongoing incident on board a vessel which is situated south of the Isle of Wight.”

The Ministry of Defence denied it was involved in the incident or that any members of the Special Boat Service had been scrambled.

Police and coastguard staff were handling the operation, the MoD said.

A spokeswoman for Associated British Ports, which runs Southampton port, said they had not had any contact with the vessel and they had no further comment.

It is understood that the 228-metre tanker had been expected to dock in Southampton at 10.30am on Sunday.

Two coastguard helicopters have been scrambled to the scene and were spotted circling the ship as it adopted an erratic, zig-zagging course through the Channel. An exclusion zone was set up south of Sandown. The vessel was reported to have left Lagos, Nigeria earlier this month.

An aerial photograph of the ship, shared on Twitter, showed it sitting high in the water although there were also reports that it had been due to dock in Southampton shortly.

Unconfirmed reports suggested that a number of stowaways may have attempted to take control of the ship as it approached the United Kingdom.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/...-isle-of-wight

[bitontheslide]

sounds more like a mutiny

[Cherie]

Welcome to the UK

[arista]

Illegals/ Stowaways


[Police dealing with security incident involving number
of stowaways on oil tanker off Isle of Wight
A Coastguard helicopter has been circling
the Nave Andromeda, which had been due to
dock in Southampton this morning.]

[Around 7 Illegals
thought to be from Nigeria - are onboard, Richard Meade,
editor of shipping news journal Lloyd's List, told Sky News.]


https://news.sky.com/story/police-de...wight-12114220

[arista]

Originally Posted by Cherie

Welcome to the UK

No this is Criminal
Fly the 7 right back to bloody Lagos
Let Nigeria Port Police sort them out.

[arista]

Armed Police will have to be dropped by Helicopter
ready to shoot to kill.

[parmnion]

Whoever hijacked it must be making tibb accounts from the captains deck...

[arista]

Originally Posted by parmnion

Whoever hijacked it must be making tibb accounts from the captains deck...

7 Nigerians
Criminals need to arrested or shot dead.
Fly them back to Lagos- FAST



This Massive Oil Tanker
is causing trouble with other ships
as it is staying still - protected.

Early Today

[arista]

Hampshire Police
who use Helicopters to fly over it,
have now asked for Military Help.



This is an Oil Tanker
no one wants it run aground.


Fly in over night
With Machine Gun's
Shoot them dead if they carry on with Violence

Arrest the 7 Nigerians
Fly them Fast back to their Police in Nigeria.

[parmnion]

Let the french special forces deal with it.

[arista]

Originally Posted by parmnion

Let the french special forces deal with it.

No it is near our Land.

Military can fly in while its Dark
with Machine Guns

[arista]

Its Over


Well done our Armed SBS
7 Criminals Arrested


Live SkyNewsHD
BBCnewsHD

[arista]

Fly them back to Lagos
give them to the Nigerian Police Force.


Get that boat to Southampton, now.

[arista]

Seven people detained after security incident on tanker off Isle of Wight

https://news.sky.com/story/seven-peo...wight-12114660

[parmnion]

Originally Posted by arista

Fly them back to Lagos
give them to the Nigerian Police Force.


Get that boat to Southampton, now.

No..

Put them up in a hotel and feed them if they were unarmed stowaways.

[parmnion]

She needs her specs

[arista]

[arista]

[arista]

[The Slim Reaper]

Arista when the children aren't being fed



Arista when some Nigerians are on the loose.

Originally Posted by arista

No this is Criminal
Fly the 7 right back to bloody Lagos
Let Nigeria Port Police sort them out.

Originally Posted by arista

Armed Police will have to be dropped by Helicopter
ready to shoot to kill.

Originally Posted by arista

7 Nigerians
Criminals need to arrested or shot dead.
Fly them back to Lagos- FAST



This Massive Oil Tanker
is causing trouble with other ships
as it is staying still - protected.

Early Today

Originally Posted by arista

Hampshire Police
who use Helicopters to fly over it,
have now asked for Military Help.



This is an Oil Tanker
no one wants it run aground.


Fly in over night
With Machine Gun's
Shoot them dead if they carry on with Violence

Arrest the 7 Nigerians
Fly them Fast back to their Police in Nigeria.

Originally Posted by arista

No it is near our Land.

Military can fly in while its Dark
with Machine Guns

Originally Posted by arista

Its Over


Well done our Armed SBS
7 Criminals Arrested


Live SkyNewsHD
BBCnewsHD

Originally Posted by arista

Fly them back to Lagos
give them to the Nigerian Police Force.


Get that boat to Southampton, now.

Originally Posted by arista

Seven people detained after security incident on tanker off Isle of Wight

https://news.sky.com/story/seven-peo...wight-12114660

[arista]

Yes Slim
the Ship is now at Southampton

[arista]

[Special forces did 'exemplary job' ending suspected tanker hijacking
and crew are now safe, minister says

16 Special Boat Service (SBS) commandos boarded
the Nave Andromeda after reports of stowaways.]


https://news.sky.com/story/special-f...-says-12114822

Well done Machine Guns on the ready.