USS Dubuque (LPD 8), secure the motor vessel M/V Magellan Star during a board and seizure operation.
GULF OF ADEN (Sept. 9, 2010) Marines assigned to the Marine Corps 15th Marine Expeditionary Unit, Maritime Raid Force, embarked aboard the Navy amphibious transport dock ship USS Dubuque (LPD 8), secure the motor vessel M/V Magellan Star during a board and seizure operation. The Marines freed several crew members from suspected pirates after Magellan Star was attacked and boarded by pirates Sept. 8. Dubuque is part of CTF 151, the multinational task force established by Combined Maritime Forces to conduct counter-piracy operations in the Gulf of Aden and the Somali Basin.
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