Pirates did not seize a single ship during the Royal Navy’s three-month spell in command of a task force patrolling the Indian Ocean. The ships of Combined Task Force 151 also succeeded in hunting down one pirate group after the raiders’ two failed attempts to hijack vessels off the Somali coast. It hunted down one pirate action group, seizing nine pirates in the process, and destroying their boats. The Royal Navy says the threat remains.

Boarding teams visited more than 120 merchantmen and fishing vessels to talk to crew, warn them if there of suspicious activity, and offer engineering assistance, medical aid and food and water if required. The task force’s aircraft flew 850 hours looking for unusual activity.

Diary Dates Today: The Royal Marines Association meets at 20.00hrs at Central division Sports and Social club.

Thursday: The Royal British Legion, Guiseley Branch, meets at 14.00hrs at The Guide Hut, The Green, Guiseley.

Tuesday: The Royal Naval Association meets at 20.00hrs at Feversham Street Sea Cadets Headquarters.

Remembrance THE following are being specially remembered at Bradford Cathedral this week: Bryan Samuel, Geoffrey Saunders, Noel Frank Scaife, John Varley Schofield, Stanley Schofield, Arthur Scott, Philip Ronald Scott, Fountain Scully, Colin Shackleton, Oswald John Lucius Hird Sharp, Denis Northouse Shearer, Ernest Shepherd, Harold Shepherd, John Shepherd, William Shorten, Charles Denis Shuttleworth, Frederick Victor Siddle, Jack Simpson, Harry Simpson, John Skirrow, Clifford Simpson, George William Simpson, James Alfred Silson, Eric William Skelton, Ernest Shepherd.