In August, she assisted the crew of the container ship MV Hansa Stavanger when the vessel was released at Mombasa, Kenya, by Somali pirates who had captured her four months before.

[2] On 7 September Brandenburg launched a Sea Lynx helicopter to perform a reconnaissance mission on a suspected skiff just south of Mukalla, Yemen.

As the boat continued undeterred, it was later known that the headquarters of Operation Atalanta authorized the German frigate to disable the skiff by gunfire.

After the vessel was neutralized, a German Navy team from a rigid-hulled inflatable boat took control of the crew and seized a number of weapons.

[5] At the time there was a deal with Kenya to judge in that country any act of piracy committed in the Indian Ocean, but on a case-by-case basis.