They were excellent blockade runners, and were frequently used as armed privateers.

Preble turned command of the Pickering over to Benjamin Hillar, and she captured the much larger and more heavily armed French privateer l'Egypte Conquise after a nine-hour battle.

The Spanish ships were heavily armed privateers or warships and returned heavy fire.

She served in the Baltic, where she took two prizes, one an armed privateer, before wrecking in 1809.

On January 24, 1603, Geare and Christopher Newport participated in a joint Anglo-French operation when they directed eight ships during the landing of armed privateers near Santiago, Cuba.

It seems at least some of the Charisians got away-in fact, one of the galleons must have been a heavily armed privateer, judging by the amount of carnage it appears to have wreaked on its way out of Ferayd Sound.

In all, under Bond Netley captured some 45 prizes, including 19 armed privateers.

Skipper of many sorts of craft, mostly for exploration but sometimes for cargo or migrant transport-and once an armed privateer with a crew of rogues you wouldn't take home to mother.