The 'first' of China navy fleets in ten years of escort history
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Updated: 2018-12-28 14:49
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First armed rescue of a foreign ship
On April 9, 2017 the PLA Navy intercepted a Tuvalu cargo ship that had been boarded and hijacked by pirates in Gulf of Aden. Sixteen members of a navy special forces team boarded the ship, rescued the crew, and captured three pirates.
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