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The SPS Patiño had been deployed on the Indian Ocean for her second tour as part of the European Union's Operation Atalanta since November 2011, when she departed from her home port of Ferrol. The Patiño was the flagship of the EU naval forces in Somali waters.

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  • Attack on the SPS Patiño
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  • The SPS Patiño had been deployed on the Indian Ocean for her second tour as part of the European Union's Operation Atalanta since November 2011, when she departed from her home port of Ferrol. The Patiño was the flagship of the EU naval forces in Somali waters.
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  • 1(xsd:integer)
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dbkwik:military/pr...iPageUsesTemplate
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Date
  • 2012-01-12(xsd:date)
Caption
  • SPS Patiño A14
Casualties
  • 1(xsd:integer)
  • 5(xsd:integer)
  • 6(xsd:integer)
Result
  • Spanish victory
combatant
Place
  • off Somalia, Indian Ocean
Conflict
  • Attack on the SPS Patiño
abstract
  • The SPS Patiño had been deployed on the Indian Ocean for her second tour as part of the European Union's Operation Atalanta since November 2011, when she departed from her home port of Ferrol. The Patiño was the flagship of the EU naval forces in Somali waters. At 03:30 on the morning 12 January 2012, while at anchor after escorting a World Food Programme ship with humanitarian aid to Mogadishu, Somalia, a sentry aboard the Spanish vessel gave the alert when he spotted a skiff alongside Patiño´s hull, with the obvious intention of boarding the ship. The skiff was manned by seven individuals, who opened fire on the Spanish unit with AK-47 rifles. The pirates apparently mistook the warship for a freighter. The Patiño was hit on her hull and funnel by 50 rounds in the ensuing gunbattle, which lasted up to two minutes. The Spanish vessel returned fire with her light armament, but when the pirates continued the aggression, the Spanish sailors proceeded to "neutralize" the threat with what the Spanish Ministry of Defence described as "self-defense fire", which forced the skiff to flee. The motor boat was then chased by one of the Patiño's SH-3 Sea King helicopters for 3,000 yards, warned by megaphone and eventually stopped after a last outburst across her bows from the helicopter's machine gun. During the pursuit the attackers threw overboard three ladders, two bags and seven rifles. The Spanish personnel captured six men of whom five were wounded, three of them seriously. The pirates declared that a seventh member of the crew was killed in the exchange of fire and that his dead body fell to the sea. The skiff, damaged by gunfire, was confiscated by the Spanish authority.
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