They had enslaved captured sailors and even made raids to kidnap people from European coasts, including England and Ireland.

Fort Delaware, located on Pea Patch Island, served as a prisoner-of-war camp for captured Confederate soldiers and sailors.

I looked around me, expecting to see captured Japanese sailors.

It was not illegal under international law; captured foreign sailors were released, while Confederates went to prison camps.

He and his sailors remained prisoners until November of that year, when they were exchanged for captured Peruvian sailors.

Most of the prisoners were captured Japanese and Italian soldiers, sailors and airmen.

Iran said Monday that all 15 captured British sailors and marines had confessed to intruding illegally into Iranian waters on March 23, when they were seized at gunpoint.

He was responsible for the capture of destruction of at least 150 fishing vessels, bringing 945 captured sailors back to his base in Dunkirk for ransom.

From the 16th century until the 19th century, the Turks repeatedly invaded the city where they captured sailors and forced them into slavery.

The Danes, in a gesture of contempt, manned her with a crew of 17 captured British sailors, put one of them in charge, and sent her back to Britain.