Three crewman have been taken hostage after pirates attacked a British ship off the west coast of Africa.

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The firm said on Saturday it was contacting the crewman's next of kin.

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Back in Scotland he beat a man nearly to death, then fled to London, signing on as crewman aboard an Africa-bound ship.

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Mr Wheelhouse also passed on his condolences to the family of a crewman killed when an oil support vessel was hit by severe gales.

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He and his crewman spent the next five hours bobbing about in increasingly choppy waters hauling in lines of pots for a catch of crab and lobster.

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About 180 people were at The Chatham Historic Dockyard in Kent to pay tribute to 186 crewman and the captain who died on board HMS Jervis Bay.

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For the first time ever, television audiences got a look inside the training of Naval Special Warfare, the Navy's Special Operations Command, the Navy SEALS and Special Warfare Combatant Crewman's training.

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Despite "atrocious sea conditions", the crew managed to connect a tow line, but when it broke, Crewman Simon Emms went on board the fishing vessel to connect a second line.

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Divers raced to the lifeboat, which had hit the water upside down, recovering four bodies and trying without success to revive a fifth crewman who had stopped breathing, the authority said.

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