Hamburg - Somali pirates captured another German-owned ship, according to newspaper reports Wednesday.

The US Marines said the MV Victoria was seized Tuesday, 75 nautical miles south of the coast of Yemen, according to German Spiegel news magazine and Frankfurter Allgemeine newspaper.

The ship's crew is Romanian, and the vessel was sailing under an Antiguan flag on behalf of a German shipping company.

There were three further failed pirate attempts to seize vessels in the Gulf of Aden on Tuesday, Spiegel reported.(dpa)