There have been cases of pirates equipped with rocket launchers and machine guns. Some only have machetes. It depends. Sometime they steal stores and run off, sometime they hold the crew hostage to get the captain's safe, sometime they kill half the crew, get the captain to open the safe, then kill the Captain so the rest of the crew will stay calm... Sometime the ship just disappear, and we can only assume the crew's dead. Pirates are scary.
Lots of pirates nowaday. Pirate activity dropped since the Tsunami, but it's still a very existent problem, for which crews are still trained as needed.
Pirates wouldn't attack a U-Boat. In fact, they'd run away from anything millitary... And I'm guessing a speedboat would be faster than a surfaced typ II.
Unless you go after the kind of pirates that use fishing boats...
But I have to wonder what year your story is taking place in? A twenty year old steel ship, although very well maintained, is going to start having problems - Even if most of the electronics and engines were replaced over time. Military vessels are conceived to drydock at an alarming rate.
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