page_title: Cheonghae Unit
section_title: 2011 rescue operation
hierarchical_section_title: Cheonghae Unit / Operational history / 2011 rescue operation
caption_attribution_description: English: Pacific Ocean (July 22, 2004) - Pictured foreground-to-background The Republic of South Korea (KOR), KDX-2 Class: Frigate Chungmugong Yi Sun-sin (DDH-975); the US Navy (USN) Arleigh Burke Cass (Flight I) Guided Missile Destroyer (Aegis), USS JOHN PAUL JONES (DDG 53), the other three ships are obstructed from view. Ships from seven different nations steam alongside USS John C. Stennis (CVN 74) while conducting a multi-national task force group photo exercise marking the conclusion of Rim of the Pacific (RIMPAC) 2004. The ship and Carrier Air Wing Fourteen (CVW-14) are taking part in RIMPAC 2004. RIMPAC is the largest international maritime exercise in the waters around the Hawaiian Islands. This year's exercise included seven participating nations; Australia, Canada, Chile, Japan, South Korea, United Kingdom and United States. RIMPAC is intended to enhance the tactical proficiency of participating units in a wide array of combined operations at sea, while enhancing stability in the Pacific Rim region.
context_page_description: The Cheonghae Anti-piracy Unit was established by the Republic of Korea Navy to protect civilian ships near the coast of Somalia under Combined Task Force 151. The naval task force is named after the historical 9th-century Korean military base Cheonghaejin.
  Deployed from Jinhae Naval Base, the modern-day unit is responsible for safely escorting hundreds of commercial vessels and several rescues involving ships from The Bahamas, Denmark, North Korea and South Korea. In January 2011, commandos in the Cheonghae Unit successfully executed a highly publicized rescue of a South Korean tanker, freeing crew members held hostage by Somali pirates.
context_section_description: On January 21, 2011, the Cheonghae Unit rescued the crew of the Samho Jewelry, a chemical tanker held hostage by Somali pirates; 8 pirates were killed, and 5 were captured. The captain of the tanker was wounded during the operation, but the rest of the crew members were unhurt.
caption: ROKS Yi Sun-shin
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