privateer
C1973
concept
A privateer is a privately owned, armed vessel (or its captain) authorized by a government during wartime to attack and capture enemy ships for profit under a formal letter of marque.
Aliases (3)
- ship captain ×3
- pirate ×1
- pirate captain ×1
Instances (13)
- Piet Hein
- Christopher Jones ("ship captain")
- Captain Jack Aubrey in Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World ("ship captain")
- Pierre Le Moyne d’Iberville
- Francis Drake
- Captain Hector Barbossa in Pirates of the Caribbean film series ("pirate captain")
- Martin Frobisher
- George Somers
- Captain Englehorn ("ship captain")
- Woodes Rogers
- Eustace the Monk ("pirate")
- Walter Raleigh