Chief mate faked radio conversation with U.S. Navy to scare pirates off ship. April 6, 2010— -- When pirates attacked Capt. Richard Phillips' ship last April, he tried to fend them off by firing ...

Pirates were rebuffed when crew opened fire. March 8, 2011 -- The Maersk Alabama was targeted again by suspected Somali pirates today, a U.S. official told ABC News. This is at least the third time ...

NAIROBI, Kenya -- Somali pirates attacked the Maersk Alabama for the second time in seven months today, but guards on board the U.S.-flagged cargo ship repelled the takeover attempt, the EU's naval ...

The most shocking moment in Captain Phillips, which re-creates the ordeal of a freighter captain kidnapped by Somali pirates, comes in the very first shot: an exterior of Phillips’ Vermont home, for ...

FRANKENMUTH — Captain Richard Phillips whose high-seas hostage ordeal inspired a Hollywood film will share his story in Frankenmuth this spring. Phillips, former captain of the MV Maersk Alabama, will ...

The film Captain Phillips is "based on a true story" of the 2009 hijacking of an American ship by Somali pirates. But how faithfully does the... How Close Did 'Captain Philips' Get To The Real Life ...

When Somali pirates hijacked the Maersk Alabama in 2009, they thought they’d struck gold. What they didn’t expect? The full force of the U.S. Navy. This is the true story of Captain Richard Phillips, ...

Phillips’ crew stayed hidden in a small safe room under construction in the 585-foot-long Maersk Alabama, knowing from their weekly anti-piracy drills that they had to stay there until their captain ...

The Maersk Alabama, featured in the movie “Captain Phillips,” has left the Seychelles after authorities completed the investigation into the deaths of two Americans, one of whom was a former Navy SEAL ...

At first, it feels like there’s a perfunctory quality to the opening scenes of Paul Greengrass’ harrowing true-life drama Captain Phillips. The titular commercial shipping-vessel captain, Rich ...

Like his excruciating, but in many ways vital, United 93, Paul Greengrass's latest film, Captain Phillips, is a nimble, procedural look at a real-life moment of ...