Britain's Royal Navy has captured 13 suspected Somali pirates after ships from a NATO-led counter-piracy force intercepted their boat in the Indian Ocean, the Navy said. A Royal Navy auxiliary ship, RFA Fort Victoria, and a US Navy destroyer, the USS Carney, were sent to investigate a suspected pirate dhow off the Somali coast on Friday, the Navy said in a statement. British Royal Marines using speedboats boarded the dhow after it ignored warnings to stop, and found 13 suspected Somali pirates and a “selection of weapons” on board, the statement said. A spokeswoman for the Royal Navy in Bahrain, Lieutenant-Commander Heather Lane, said Saturday that the suspected pirates were still on board their vessel, which she said was in a poor condition. “We are investigating the evidence on board. They will be transferred some time later in the day to RFA Fort Victoria,” she said.
