[ABC RADIO AUSTRALIA, 10th September 2010] - United States Marines have rescued a ship seized by pirates in the Gulf of Aden, off Somalia, after hijackers vainly sought the crew - hiding in a secret compartment.
The crew included seven Filpinos.
A spokesman for the shipping firm says the pirates spent nearly 20 hours searching for the crew and even phoned the shipping company, Quadrant, in Germany to ask where they were hidden.
The US military says Marines boarded and seized control of the Antigua-Barbuda flagged vessel M/V Magellan Star from the pirates in a pre-dawn raid
No one was hurt in the operation, in which the Magellan Star's crew was freed and nine pirates arrested.
Quadrant spokesman Juergen Salamon says: "The crew had closed down the engines and locked themselves away in a safe room which the pirates were unable to find."
The 11-man crew comprised two Russians, two Poles, and seven Filipinos.
The Magellan Star was sailing from Bilbao in Spain to Singapore.
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