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The Stena Shadow

Mosquito Fleet · Mission 2 · Northern strait, off Hormuz Island

Location
Northern strait, off Hormuz Island
Date · Local
Friday, November 22, 2026 — 22:14 local
Duration
75 seconds
Act
Act 1

Operational Briefing

OPERATIONAL ORDER 2026-11-22-LRK-014
Eyes only. Captain R. Tahami, Boghammar-7.

British-flagged tanker M/T NORTHERN PEARL transiting eastbound,
northern shipping lane, eight knots. Maintain visual contact.
Document course and speed. Tasking may evolve.

Boghammar-12 (Lt. H. Tahami) is in support, holding station four
nautical miles west.

— Cmdr. M. Alavi, Larak Naval Station

Objective

Victory & Failure

WinEither branch counts as a successful resolution. Branch is recorded as mission2: 'board' or mission2: 'shadow'.
FailLose visual contact (drift > 600m)
FailFire any weapon
FailBoarding attempt at miss-distance (close pass without holding 5s within 30m)

Radio Transcript

Cockpit and net traffic recorded during the operation, timestamped from mission start.

+00sYUSEFTanker off the bow, Captain. Stena class. Fresh paint.
+10sYUSEFLiberian — no, British. Two flags painted over.
+22sHOSSEINReza, cousin. Take her in. Be a man about it.
+38sCMD-LRKBoghammar-7. Suspicion of waters violation. Boarding authorized at your discretion.
+42sYUSEFDiscretion.
+52sHOSSEINDon't make me look at the radar, cousin.
+64sYUSEFHold the lane or take her in. The water remembers either.

Historical Background

On 19 July 2019, IRGC Navy fast boats and a helicopter seized the British-flagged tanker Stena Impero as it transited the Strait of Hormuz, forcing it to Bandar Abbas with its twenty-three crew aboard. The seizure was widely read as retaliation: two weeks earlier, on 4 July, Royal Marines had detained the Iranian tanker Grace 1 (later renamed Adrian Darya 1) off Gibraltar on suspicion of carrying oil to Syria in breach of EU sanctions.

The Stena Impero was held for roughly two months, its crew confined aboard, before its release in late September 2019. The episode came amid the unraveling of the 2015 nuclear deal after the US withdrawal in 2018, and a summer of tanker incidents — including limpet-mine attacks near the Gulf of Oman in May and June that Washington attributed to Iran. It showed how quickly the world's most important oil chokepoint can become an instrument of state leverage.

— Historical Anchor —
Inspired by the July 19, 2019 IRGC seizure of the British-flagged tanker M/T Stena Impero in the Strait of Hormuz, held at Bandar Abbas for roughly two months.

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