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...masted and square-rigged, the frigates and sloops of war were small and fast, with a gun range as far as one-half mile. Of the three top U. S. commanders, John Paul Jones is the best known in history and balladry. Son of a Scotch gardener, a true corsair and soldier of fortune, he served first under John Barry and Hopkins. When given command of a sloop, he sailed to Brest, seized many sloops of war, and gained world-wide fame...
...Morgan, cruising in the Corsair, ran aground at Nassau...
...Edward Manville's 266-ft. Hi-Esmaro was built by Bath Iron Works. So was Hugh Joseph Chisholm's 244-ft. Aras and Eldridge Reeves Johnson's 279-ft. Caroline. Biggest yacht contract Bath Iron Works ever got was for J. P. Morgan's fourth Corsair, which was launched in the dark days of 1930 amid a fusillade of anonymous letters threatening to dynamite the 343-ft. ship before she left the ways...
...diary, but "in plain English," states Editor Roberts, "Mr. Wright had seduced Mary Bulkeley." The young couple came to live with the squire, disappeared, returned, left their daughter for him to raise. But by 1746 Fortunatus Wright was famed throughout Great Britain as a dazzling privateer, "the brave corsair" whose raids on French shipping had netted him 16 ships and prize money totaling ?400,000. The boldest of English pirates, Wright operated in the hostile Mediterranean with such success that the King of France offered a title to the man who captured him, dead or alive. Back on his farm...
...Oceanographer was J. P. Morgan's famed yacht Corsair III, donated by him in 1929 before bigger, better Corsair IV was commissioned...