JOHOR BARU: The Royal Malaysian Navy (RMN) today rescued a vessel carrying marine gas oil from falling to the hand of sea pirates.
The navy who received a distress call from the vessel's MT Oriental Glory on Tuesday had deployed its KD Terengganu to the vessel which was stranded at the east of Johor water near South China Sea.
In a statement , RMN media management director Commander Ismail Othman said the vessel were carrying 2,500 metric tonne of marine gas oil when it was attacked by pirates at 11.45pm on Tuesday night.
"The pirates manage to flee with the vessel's content but failed to take the ship as its anchoring system was faulty," he said.
He said the pirate took with them the marine gas oil and had also damaged the ship navigating system before leaving it and the ships crew stranded in the open sea.
None of MT Oriental Glory crew ship were harmed in the incident.
Due to the damages, Ismail said the vessel had to be towed to shore by KD Terengganu.