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'No cowards': How ship's crew fought off Somali pirates
• McClatchy News12 nerve-rattling hours later, the pirates had left in a lifeboat with Phillips as a hostage, but the crew of 19 had joined wills to thwart the first attempted hijacking of an American vessel at sea in at least two centuries.