Ambrey: UK-owned cargo ship broken in drone assault off Yemen coast

That is the newest of dozens of incidents within the Crimson Sea.

The Barbadian-flagged vessel “suffered minor injury to the port facet” within the assault west of al-Khudaida, however there have been no accidents, Ambrey stated.

The corporate stated the vessel elevated pace and carried out evasive maneuvers earlier than persevering with south in direction of the Bab al Mandeb Strait.

Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthi rebels, who management a lot of the war-torn nation, have been attacking ships within the Crimson Sea for months to protest Israel’s conflict with the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas.

Their assaults prompted retaliation by American and British forces, together with a wave of airstrikes that hit dozens of targets late Saturday.

On Monday, the US army introduced it had struck two Houthi surface-to-air drones (USVs).

“U.S. forces have recognized USVs carrying explosives in Houthi-controlled components of Yemen and decided that they pose a right away risk to U.S. Navy and service provider ships within the area,” the U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) stated on the X social community.