A captain's duty
Subtitle: Somali pirates, Navy SEALs and dangerous days at sea
By: by Richard Phillips with Stephen Talty
Contributors: Talty, Stephen
Publisher: Bantam Press
Published: 2013
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 286
ISBN-13: 9780857502469
Subjects: Ship captains; Maersk Alabama (Ship); Hijacking of ships; Biography; Crime
Other titles: Captain Phillips
Description: 8th April 2009 was just an ordinary day for 53 -year-old Richard Phillips, captain of the United States-registered cargo vessel, the Maersk Alabama, as it headed towards the port of Mombasa. Ordinary that is until, two hundred or so miles off the east coast of Africa, armed Somali pirates attacked and boarded the freighter.