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privateer

Pirate ship
private vessel, armed vessel, freebooter; see ship.
Pirate
buccaneer, corsair, freebooter; see pirate.

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The web site Privateer Dragons is a must for those serious about the pirate life.
It was captured and plundered in 1 595 by the English privateer James Lancaster.
His ship fell into the hands of a French privateer and he was for some time a prisoner in France, but finally proceeded to London, where his proposal was considered without anything being decided.
The occupation of Monterey for a few hours by a Buenos Aires privateer (1818) was the only incident of actual war that California saw in all these years; and it, in truth, was a ridiculous episode, fit introduction to the bloodless play-wars, soon to be inaugurated in Californian politics.
He is said to have forced a British schooner, probably a privateer, which attacked him when on his way from Bordeaux to St Thomas, to strike, but he did not take possession.

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