The US Naval Institute news service reports,
A three-masted training ship interdicted a drug-laden high-speed smuggling vessel off the coast of Colombia on Friday, the Ecuadorian Navy announced.
Sailing ship BAE Guayas caught the low-profile vessel within the 200-nautical miles of the Colombian exclusive economic zone, the service announced.
Maybe we should put Eagle to work.
Now that has to be a tad embarrassing for the narco-LPV crew.
“What you in for?” ” I got caught smuggling drugs by a sail boat” Oh yeah that will go down well in the big house.
The Low Profile Vessel crew probably has pretty poor situational awareness, but a square rigger is pretty hard to miss.
To be fair, their first thoughts on seeing the ships masts & sails on the horizon likely wasn’t “They’re after us”
Also, I would love to know if it was a lookout in the crow’s nest that first spotted the LPV. That would truly be “classic”
Paging Chuck hill
China’s Massive New Maritime Patrol Ship Looks Like A Cruise Ship Inside
https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/42874/chinas-massive-new-maritime-patrol-ship-looks-like-a-cruise-ship-inside