When suspected Somalian pirates opened fire on two small Navy [rigid-helled inflatable boats (RHIB)](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rigid_Hulled_Inflatable_Boat “Widipedia”) that belonged to the [USS Gonzalez](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Gonzalez_%28DDG-66%29 “Wikipedia”) just after dawn March 18, the captain of the cruiser [USS Cape St. George](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Cape_St._George “Wikipedia”), waiting a few hundred yards away, had his gunners lay down covering fire long enough to allow the Navy crews to escape. The pirates were then wounded and captured, and their boats were seized.

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