Andther um, er, well, Arrgh - ER
From Times Online, November 17, 2008
"Somali pirates hijack Saudi oil tanker with Britons on board"
"A band of Somali raiders opened fire on two Royal Navy assault craft carrying Marines armed with machineguns and SA80 rifles. Three pirates were killed in the British Navy’s first fatal armed conflict on the high seas in living memory."
I'm certain there are folks alive who remember parts of the British Navy's fatal conflicts during WW II. And as recently as 1982 there was the Falkland War. One wonders how these things get by an editor.
Arf