Members of al-Qaeda attempted an attack on "The Sullivans" while in port at Aden, Yemen on 3 January 2000 as a part of the 2000 millennium attack plots. The plan was to load a boat full of explosives and detonate it near "The Sullivans"; however the boat was so overladen that it sank. Later, al-Qaeda tried the same type of attack a second time, successfully bombing on 12 October 2000.