River pirate

The USS Panay, a United States Navy river gunboat, part of the brown-water navy, which served on the Yangtze Patrol, hunting for river pirates and Chinese insurgents, on the Yangtze River, in China. The Imperial Japanese Army ultimately sunk the Panay in 1937, known as the Panay Incident.

A river pirate is a pirate who operates along a river. The term has been used to describe many different kinds of pirate groups who carry out riverine attacks in Asia, Africa, Europe, North America, and South America. They are usually prosecuted under national, not international law.


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