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  1. Jun 25, 2024 · Richard Phillips is Keeping Busy Despite Retirement. The retired Captain Richard Phillips lives in Underhill, Vermont, with his wife Andrea, whom he married in 1987. They have two children, Mariah and Daniel AKA Danny. After spending years at sea, even after the debacle that serves as the premise of ‘Captain Phillips,’ he is now enjoying ...

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  3. Oct 12, 2013 · Phillips is a native of Winchester, Mass., where he graduated from Winchester High School in 1973. His father, James Austin Phillips, served as a teacher, an assistant football coach and the head ...

    • The MV Maersk Alabama Hijacking
    • Captain Richard Phillips Is Rescued
    • The Lawsuit Against The Maersk Line
    • The First Attack on The Maersk Alabama
    • Was Captain Phillips A Hero?

    In early April, 2009, a container ship operated by the Virginia-based Maersk Line was traveling from Salālah, Oman to Mombasa, Kenya. On board was a crew of 21 Americans under the command of Captain Richard Phillips. Phillips, born on May 16, 1955 in Winchester, Massachusetts, graduated from the Massachusetts Maritime Academy in 1979 and began his ...

    The crew of the Maersk Alabama had sent out distress signals and began tailing the lifeboat. On April 9, they were met by the destroyer USS Bainbridge and other U.S. vessels and aircraft. A small security of armored soldiers joined the crew of the Alabamaand ordered them to continue on their journey to Kenya, while U.S. officials attempted to negot...

    Any Hollywood adaptation based on true events is bound to take some creative liberties with its story, whether in the interest of time or drama, but the accuracy of Captain Phillipsis further called into question because of its source material. Was Phillips’ own account entirely accurate, or did his perception of the event differ from the true real...

    Shockingly, the pirate attack shown in the film wasn’t the only one the Alabamafaced. The day before the ship was taken over, two other small vessels attempted to hijack the ship, though they weren’t successful. “We had two pirate attacks over 18 hours,” the unnamed crew member said. And according to the crew member, as the two pirate boats came in...

    In Captain Phillips, Richard Phillips is painted as a heroic figure who puts his life on the line to save his crew. “If you’re gonna shoot somebody, shoot me!” Hanks says in the film. This moment, crew members said, never happened. According to them, Phillips never sacrificed himself for the crew, but was simply grabbed by the pirates and forced on...

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  4. Oct 4, 2024 · In our self-taped age of “candid” photography, the red-carpet imagery feels uncannily formal perhaps even uncomfortably so (a register Phillips clearly relishes in embellishing). Rather than darkly humored, his pictures feel nostalgic, and that is the most alarming thing of all. Memory’s misregistration isn’t just making things softer.”

  5. Capt Richard Phillips attends the 2009 White House Correspondents' Association Dinner at the Washington Hilton on May 9, 2009 in Washington, DC. In this photo provided by the U.S. Navy, Maersk-Alabama Capt. Richard Phillips stands alongside Cmdr. Frank Castellano, commanding officer of USS...

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  7. Two days after he was sentenced to life in prison in 1972, Phillips wrote a poem. It may have been the first poem he ever wrote. He was 26 years old, and had left high school in tenth grade, and ...

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