This was in response to an interagency fight that broke out during an effort to apprehend the terrorists responsible for the hijacking of the Achille Lauro cruise ship.
He traveled on many classic ships in the 1990s, including the Achille Lauro weeks before it sank in 1994.
The former Prime Minister of Singapore, Lee Kuan Yew had travelled aboard the Willem Ruys as a fresh graduate upon completing his studies in the United Kingdom.
As part of her work in the Department of Justice (DoJ), she managed the government's legal efforts during the terrorist hijacking of TWA Flight 847, the bombing of Pan Am flight 103, and the takeover of the cruise ship Achille Lauro.
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Among the many missions in which he was involved was the capture of the terrorists in the Achille Lauro hijacking, the Panama invasion and the capture of Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega, and all special operations activities during Operation Desert Storm.
Leon Klinghoffer (1916–85), disabled appliance manufacturer who was murdered and thrown overboard by Palestinian terrorists hijacking the cruise ship Achille Lauro in 1985; his 800-person funeral was held at the synagogue.
If not that situation had been solved by other means, it's quite probable that VF-41 (and its sister squadron VF-84) would have been employed in the same way as VF-74 and VF-103 during the Achille Lauro incident, to intercept the hijackers and force them down to be arrested.