On the 21st of August, an unescorted Greek oil tanker, the Sounion, came under attack from the explosive munitions happy Houthi shooty rebels in Yemen attempting a Red Sea transit. The vessel received multiple combined weapons blows from small arms and at least four explosive projectiles (no word yet if drones or missiles) from the terrorists aboard small attack boats before losing power. The ship dropped anchor in place as fires were beginning aboard.
Luckily for the crew, a French destroyer – part of the Prosperity Guardian umbrella coalition supposedly in those waters to provide shipping protection – was in the area and able to take them all off the ship safely. They also managed to extinguish the fire before abandoning ship.
A French destroyer rescued 29 mariners from an oil tanker that came under repeated attack in the Red Sea by Yemen’s Houthi rebels, officials said…
