Fishing vessel attacked, boarded, Gulf of Guinea

A fishing vessel was boarded at around 1300 UTC Aug 28 in the Gulf of Guinea in roughly the same area SSW of Lagos, where tanker PIKE was attacked some 9 hours earlier. It is reported, that the vessel, fv AP 703, was hijacked, or probably, pirates kidnapped some crew and already fled. As of 1630 UTC, the vessel was sailing full speed towards the Ghana coast, with operational AIS.

Pole-and-Line P fishing vessel AP 703, IMO 7419731, GT 498, length 54 meters, flag Ghana.