[loz]

Just what was that boat carrying I wonder?
Was it just timber?
Or was there something more sinister on board...

BBC NEWS | UK | Hunt on for 'hijacked cargo ship'

A cargo ship may have travelled through the English Channel after being hijacked by pirates, coastguards say....

Reports say Swedish authorities were told by the Finnish shipping line operating the 3,988-tonne ship that it was boarded by up to 10 armed men claiming to be anti-drugs police as it sailed through the Baltic sea on July 24.

The intruders apparently left the vessel - which was carrying about £1m worth of sawn timber from Finland to Algeria - 12 hours later on an inflatable boat after damaging the Arctic Sea's communications equipment.

But on 3 August, Interpol told Dover Coastguard that the crew had been hijacked in the Baltic Sea and asked UK authorities to be alert as the vessel passed through the channel.

By then the ship had already left the Strait of Dover and was last recorded off the coast of Brest, northern France, just before 0130 BST on 30 July.

The MCA said it was told the vessel had seemingly been spotted subsequently by a Portuguese coastal patrol aircraft but its current location was unknown.

Russian authorities have said they have been assessing the situation and Navy vessels have been notified, according to Itar-Tass.

Vladimir Kochurov, deputy head of the Arkhangelsk regional administration's transport department, told the agency that there was "scarce information" about the Arctic Sea.

Sounds like a good opening segway to a film. Now we need the flashback to where it all started... then back to the final scene mid-atlantic for the shoot out.

[oakie]

Under Siege 3

[loz]

Originally Posted by oakie

Under Siege 3

I almost added Segal into my final shoot out scene.

[loz]

It gets a little more suspicious to me

Russia have deployed 5 navy vessels including nuclear submarines. To find some missing timber?

BBC NEWS | World | Europe | Russian navy joins hunt for ship

"All the information-intelligence systems of our armed forces, including the space-borne systems, the system of identification of sea vessels and others, have been calibrated to look for the missing ship," he said.

Operations will be centred on the patrol ship Ladny, a guided missile frigate which is part of Russia's Black Sea fleet.