Nearly 20 years ago, a team from the Florida-based company Odyssey Marine Exploration (OME) was searching for the wreckage of an English Navy vessel that sank in the Strait of Gibraltar in 1694 ...

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U.S. agent Major Tom Blake is sent to Tripoli to uncover who it is in Washington that is tipping off the pirates as to what's being shipped where. A fast-moving story with lots of sabers and rapiers.

W reck-hunters have discovered a heavily armed 17th-century Barbary pirate ship off Morocco, the first of its kind found near the Barbary coast. Believed to have been on a mission to capture and ...

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It is thought to refer to Barbary pirates who operated off the Cornish coast at this time. The arms also appear on a 1621 candle sconce and the town seal.

In 1805, President Thomas Jefferson ordered the U.S. Navy and Marines to stop Barbary pirates from disrupting shipping in the Mediterranean Sea. This successful measure is captured in the Marine ...