Situation in the Red Sea (Houthi Thread)

"Wind" - a Panama flagged, Greek owned oil tanker, involved in Russian oil smuggling, was hit by a missile in the Red Sea. The attack caused minor damage and temporary loss of power, but the crew was able to restore the power and the ship continues its journey.
The US military subsequently confirmed that the strike “caused flooding which resulted in the loss of propulsion and steering”. In the end, however, no assistance was needed as the Wind's crew managed to restore propulsion and steering. The Wind was continuing to the next port of call later on Saturday.
 
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I've been bussy the last few days, and now I'm catching up with the events, but it looks like over the past week Houthis launched a flurry of strikes all across the region, including one alleged attack in the Mediterranean, but none of them were successful.

In a statement on its official website, the militia identified the merchant ships that it “carried out … joint operations against” as the “Larego Desert”, the “MSC Mechela” and the “Minerva Lisa”. The only ships sailing in the region under similar names are Clearlake’s 49,700-dwt Largo Desert (built 2018), MSC’s 6,724-teu MSC Michaela (built 2002) and 103,800-dwt Minerva Lisa (built 2004), owned by Greek shipowner Andreas Martinos’ Minerva Marine.
No Western source, including the Royal Navy’s UK Maritime Trade Operations, has so far reported any incident against these vessels. Equally uncorroborated is another pair of attacks that the Houthis claimed on 24 May, which included their alleged first strike against a vessel underway in the Mediterranean.
The last Houthi attack for which independent confirmation exists was on 23 May, against the 50,800-dwt Greek-controlled bulker Yannis (built 2009), when a missile landed off its port side in the Red Sea.


Also, we've lost another (5th) Reaper.

 
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It's legit. But there is no visible damage so it doesn't look like it was shot down, instead it either crashed due to a malfunction, or was downed by electronic warfare systems.
Also there are no Air Force markings on it, which could mean it was operated by the CIA or some other outfit.

Stock photo with Air Force markings:
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Wreckage found in Yemen:
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Houthis launched attacks against 6 vessels.
5 of them remain unconfirmed:
No independent confirmation exists so far of any strike against any of the other five vessels the Houthis claimed to have attacked in the area on Wednesday.
Two of them are bulkers managed by Greece’s Eastern Mediterranean Maritime (Eastmed) — the 63,300-dwt Morea (built 2015) and the 60,400-dwt Sea Lady - both in the Red Sea.
Another two vessels are said by Saree to have been targeted “with a number of missiles and drones” in the Arabian Sea. They are the US-flagged 6,188-teu Maersk Hartford (built 2007), which is managed by Maersk Line, and Peter Dohle’s 175,200-dwt capesize Alba (built 2012).
It is the second time that the Houthis claim to be targeting a vessel in the Mediterranean. Saree said that “winged missiles” flew in the direction of Minerva Marine’s 46,900-dwt product tanker Minerva Antonia (built 2008), which is currently in Port Said.
None of the companies contacted by TradeWinds have confirmed any attack against the vessels.

But one ship, "Laxx" a Marshall Islands-flagged, Greek owned and operated bulk carrier sailing from Brazil to UAE, was hit and received some damage - it took water and is listing, but is able (for now) to continue its journey.
The ship, which is managed by Grehel Shipmanagement, first issued a distress call via VHF Channel 16 in the morning as it was sailing 54 nautical miles (100 km) south-west of the Yemeni port of Hodeidah. Reporting damage and water ingress in its cargo hold, the vessel was said by Ambrey Analytics to be listing.
About an hour after the initial hit, the master reported that a missile landed in the water near the vessel - according to the United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations (UKMTO) and Africa Risk Compliance.
Security company Diaplous Group reported that a missile had exploded on the port side of the vessel. “All accommodation windows were broken, while one crew member suffered a head injury from fragments,” the company added. The wound requires medical assistance. Cargo hold 6 is said to be “fully damaged” and taking on water. Holds 5 and 7 have also sustained severe damage, Diaplous said.
 
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Greece is a known ally against Israel, and they have a mutual defense pact against Turkey. So no surprise for Greek vessels to be primary targets.
 
Houthi's claim they targeted a US Navy ship. The USA says they did not. I tend to believe the Houthi's more than the US govt, but we will eventually find out either way.


Just because they targeted a US Navy warship, doesn't mean the attack was successful. Houthis quite regularly launch missiles and drones at them and yet none of those attacks reached their target. And even if one of their attacks was successful, it would be almost impossible for the US to cover it up - there are dozens of vessels (including Russian and Chinese) sailing through the region, so someone would notice a damaged warship.
 
Just because they targeted a US Navy warship, doesn't mean the attack was successful. Houthis quite regularly launch missiles and drones at them and yet none of those attacks reached their target. And even if one of their attacks was successful, it would be almost impossible for the US to cover it up - there are dozens of vessels (including Russian and Chinese) sailing through the region, so someone would notice a damaged warship.
That was my thought as well, they targeted it unsuccessfully.

The Houthi's are claiming they hit it, but the damage is unknown. The USA is denying it. My guess is the in-between, like you said, they targeted it unsuccessfully.

 
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Houthis seem to be pretty busy lately. During the past 24 hours they've launched attacks against US Navy warships and civilian vessels - none of the strikes appears to be successful.

CENTCOM reports interception of missiles and drones.
Between 9 a.m. and 7:30 p.m. (Sanaa time) June 1, U.S. Central Command (USCENTCOM) forces destroyed one Iranian-backed Houthi uncrewed aerial system (UAS) in the southern Red Sea. USCENTCOM forces also observed two other UAS crash into the Red Sea. No injuries or damage was reported by U.S., coalition, or commercial ships.
Additionally, between 7 and 11:30 p.m., USCENTCOM forces successfully engaged two Houthi anti-ship ballistic missiles (ASBM) in the southern Red Sea. The ASBM were fired in the direction of USS Gravely and were destroyed in self-defense, with no damage or injuries reported by U.S., coalition, or commercial ships.

As for the civilian vessels attacked, they were: "Al Oraiq" a Qatargas LNG carrier, and 2 maltese flagged, Greek owned and operated ships: a tanker "Abliani" and a bulk carrier "Maina".
Alleged or real attacks against Eastmed ships have been frequent, by contrast - to the point of prompting the company’s Greek owner Thanassis Martinos to state to TradeWinds on Friday that “the transit of the Red Sea has become very risky and the Houthis are efficient and sophisticated”.
Greek ships, and Eastmed in particular, have been increasingly drawing the Houthis’ attention since the Yemeni group launched a few weeks ago the “fourth phase” of its campaign against shipping, threatening to target every ship of a company they believe has traded in Israel.
 
Houthis launched another wave of atacks, targeting:
2 Liberian flagged, Greek owned and operated bulk carriers "Roza" and "Vantage Dream" in the Red Sea.
And a US flagged container ship, "Maersk Seletar", carrying DoD cargo, in the Arabian Sea.
None of the attacks appears to be successful.

Two Greek bulkers both traveling north in the Red Sea were reportedly targeted. Spokesperson Yahya Saree said it was related to “companies violating the decision to ban entry to the ports,” of Israel. One ship he cited was the Roza (93,386 dwt), a Liberian-registered bulker built in 2010. Her last AIS signal shows the ship bound for the Suez Canal. The other ship was the Vantage Dream (29,084 dwt) also registered in Liberia. She is traveling from India and also showing that she is approaching the Suez Canal.
The third claim cited the Maersk Line Ltd. vessel Maersk Seletar (108,299 dwt). She operates under the U.S. flag and is transporting materials for the U.S. military showing a destination of Oman. She made the circuit around Africa with the Houthis saying she was targeted while transiting the Arabian Sea

The attacks came just a day after the command of the EU Operation Aspides, announced a decline in Houthi attacks.
These claims appeared as Greece’s Minister of Maritime Affairs Christos Stylianides asserted to a reporter from Reuters that the EU Operation Aspides is seeing a decline in the attacks by the Houthi. He said they had seen “a notable reduction in the number and intensity of attacks,” over the past week citing the joint efforts between the forces patrolling in the region.
 
Houthis had a busy weekend.
On Friday (June 7) they attacked two Greek vessels in the Red Sea: a container ship "Elbella" and a general cargo vessel "AAL Genoa". Both attacks were unsuccessful.
On Sunday (June 9) Houthis targeted another two ships in the Gulf of Aden: an Antigua & Barbuda-flagged, German operated general cargo ship "Norderney" and an MSC container ship "MSC Tavvishi". Those attacks were successful, "Norderney" was struck twice and "MSC Tavvishi" once - both ships reported fires, but were able to extinguish them and continue their journey.
A first strike against the Norderney took place at 20:00 GMT on Saturday about 80 nautical miles (150 kilometres) south-east of Aden. “The Master reports that the vessel was hit by an unknown projectile, a small fire was contained in the mooring station and now reported extinguished,” UKTMO
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This, however, were not the end of the Norderney’s troubles. A Houthi missile hit it again at 14:30 GMT on Sunday, as it was sailing 89 miles south-west of Aden.
“The company’s CSO [chief security officer] reports that the vessel has no casualties and is continuing to proceed to its next port of call,” UKMTO said.
The incident against the second vessel, the MSC Tavvishi, occurred at 23:39 GMT on Saturday, 70 miles south-west of Aden. “The Master reports that the vessel was hit by an unknown projectile on the aft section, which resulted in a fire,” UKMTO said. “Damage control is underway, the Master reports no casualties and the vessel is proceeding to its next port of call.”


Houthis also claim they've attacked the British destroyer HMS "Diamond", but without any success.
The Houthis did not say whether the attack they said they had carried out on the HMS Diamond had caused any damage, but described it as “accurate”.
“These claims are untrue,” a British Ministry of Defence (MoD) spokesperson said.
 
Houthis had a busy weekend.
On Friday (June 7) they attacked two Greek vessels in the Red Sea: a container ship "Elbella" and a general cargo vessel "AAL Genoa". Both attacks were unsuccessful.
On Sunday (June 9) Houthis targeted another two ships in the Gulf of Aden: an Antigua & Barbuda-flagged, German operated general cargo ship "Norderney" and an MSC container ship "MSC Tavvishi". Those attacks were successful, "Norderney" was struck twice and "MSC Tavvishi" once - both ships reported fires, but were able to extinguish them and continue their journey.




Houthis also claim they've attacked the British destroyer HMS "Diamond", but without any success.

Just a bit of food for thought - this has been going on for years.. Years and YEARS..
Now its the Houthis, in the recent past it was the Somali pirates with their small speedboats and small arms Terrorising International Shipping Lanes - and even back then the "international community" threw up its arms and all collaborated and - both heroically and collectively - found a way to make barely a dent in the attacks on shipping.

Nairobian was an interesting guy on the Old Forum who copped a ban after arguing with Simeon Strangelight over Racial IQ.
He made some interesting points about ZOGs interest in the Red Sea lanes and thus the Horn of Africa which is so close, at points, to the Arabian peninsula.
He was one of the first commentators I saw who pointed out that the Westgate Mall shooting had a lot of question marks against it and likely was a False Flag perpetrated by the (((Usual Suspects))), not the first time - all sorts of questionable activity taking place in East African countries seemingly set up by intel agencies - to the point where Christopher Bollyn insists that Israel had foreknowledge of the Entebbe hostage crisis and in fact made sure that it would happen in order to underline their international 'victim' status and also their 'tough gutsy victim' status in the wake of the debacle that was the Munich Hostage Crisis.
We all recall what happened in the Levant in 2014 when a column of armoured cars rolled across an open desert under a blue sky, vanquishing all before them, and NATO countries used their overarching airpower to throw boxes of supplies to the column's intended victims and small lesbians in flight-suits in the RAF flight crew would turn to the embedded news crews riding alongside them in the helicopter with tears in their eyes, crying about how they wanted to save the Yazidis from slaughter but they were just powerless to do anything..
well,
Here's a thought:
why not use your unmatched airpower over Iraq to blow that unprotected column of international head choppers to kingdom come? Most obvious solution. But we had to play along and pretend that ISIS (Israel) were this terrifying militia that No-one Could Stop.

Now, I am NOT saying:
That its easy to take on Houthis or Somali pirates in the Red Sea at all times, every day
That the Houthis don't constitute a thorn in the side of NATO navies
That the Houthis don't have legitimate grievances.

What I am saying is that - basically South African journalists with Israeli passports have been talking up the presence of (((ISIS))) in places like Mozambique and Malawi for years now - and that (((presence))) has been very hard to explain given the peaceable nature of the muslims in Mozambique and Malawi.
"Not just Malawi but Tanzania! Uganda! South Sudan! The Russians have got a presence in some places!"
They've been talking up their presence like crazy for years when it just didn't make sense to onlookers: partly because there didn't seem to be a host population there in Malawi and Mozambique for ISIS to take root amongst and partly because the areas they mentioned were so sparsely populated and remote it was hard to see how they could requisition themselves and sort supplies for themselves and do all that without sticking out like a sore thumb ripe for drone or black ops attacks.
It didn't make sense but we were told that the Russians were infiltrating the region and the fact that ISIS was there meant that regime change wars and NATO military presence might be Completely Necessary.

People have seen this movie before, last time it was called Somalia and the soldiers active there that I spoke to could make no sense of the strategy as a lot of what they were told to do just made the situation worse.
They felt like they were sent in there as place holders for a return visit later.
certainly the Israelis and the (((globalists))) have a very strong interest in a presence in the Horn of Africa.
The British Empire was of course infested with jews pursuing their own long term aims and who often used the term "the Ark of Crisis" - basically using divide and rule and feisty local militias to create civil wars that advanced their imperial ambitions without having to do as much with boots on the ground.
Its been going on for decades if not longer.
They don't want to fix the problem because the problem is the excuse they need to maintain their continued presence in the region - AFRICOM etc.
This is not a new phenomenon. Western nations wringing their hands over how terrible it all is and saying "we must do something" whilst failing to bring enough firepower has been their go to PR response for years.
The realpolitik of it all and their real strategic aims (in NOT bringing enough firepower to solve the problem once and for all) are things, are details, that are kept away from the lumpen proletariat.
 
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Over the past 24 hours, Houthis launched several attacks.

1. A Liberia-flagged, Greek owned and operated bulk carrier "Tutor" was hit several times, including one attack by an unmanned boat which caused severe damage - the hull was breached and the engine room was flooded. The ship lost power, salvage operation is under way. According to some sources one of the sailors went missing in the engine room and is presumed dead.

2. A Palau-flagged, ukrainian owned, Polish operated bulk carrier "Verbena" was hit by two missiles. Fire erupted on board, causing some damage, but the crew managed to extinguish it and the ship continues to sail. One of the sailors was severly injured and was evacuated by a helicopter from the USS Philippine Sea.

3. Houthis also claim attacks on a Malta-flagged, Greek owned and operated bulk carrier "Seaguardian" and on an unspecified ship named "Athina" - there are several vessels with that name in the area, but it's most likely a Greek tanker. Those 2 attacks are unconfirmed at this moment.

 
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Over the past 24 hours, Houthis launched several attacks.

1. A Liberia-flagged, Greek owned and operated bulk carrier "Tutor" was hit several times, including one attack by an unmanned boat which caused severe damage - the hull was breached and the engine room was flooded. The ship lost power, salvage operation is under way. According to some sources one of the sailors went missing in the engine room and is presumed dead.

2. A Palau-flagged, ukrainian owned, Polish operated bulk carrier "Verbena" was hit by two missiles. Fire erupted on board, causing some damage, but the crew managed to extinguish it and the ship continues to sail. One of the sailors was severly injured and was evacuated by a helicopter from the USS Philippine Sea.

3. Houthis also claim attacks on a Malta-flagged, Greek owned and operated bulk carrier "Seaguardian" and on an unspecified ship named "Athina" - there are several vessels with that name in the area, but it's most likely a Greek tanker. Those 2 attacks are unconfirmed at this moment.

Sounds like they have better missiles now.
 
Sounds like they have better missiles now.
It's not the first time when after a period of close calls, Houthis have a series of successful, back to back, attacks - something similar already happened late February - early March when they sunk the "Rubymar" and heavily damaged some other ships. I think it has more to do with the quality of intel provided by Iran.
 
1. A Liberia-flagged, Greek owned and operated bulk carrier "Tutor" was hit several times, including one attack by an unmanned boat which caused severe damage - the hull was breached and the engine room was flooded. The ship lost power, salvage operation is under way. According to some sources one of the sailors went missing in the engine room and is presumed dead.

"Tutor" have been abandoned by its crew. 21 sailors were evacuated to Djibouti, one remains missing, presumed dead. Two tug boats were dispatched but they will arrive at the scene after the weekend.
Tsavliris Salvage Group has been assigned to tow the ship, which is carrying 80,000 tonnes of coal, a source with knowledge of the matter told Reuters. The project will involve two vessels. The first is expected to reach Tutor on Monday morning and the second on Tuesday evening.
 
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