What is this, the 18th Century?

By Michael J.W. Stickings

Royal Navy in firefight with Somali pirates

So reports The Times. Apparently "[i]t was the first time the Royal Navy had been engaged in a fatal shoot-out on the high seas in living memory."

It's all so... retro.

Then again, the pirates probably have a profile on Facebook and probably know a lot more about Twitter than I do.