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NATO Sinks Pirate Mother Ship Off Somalia

By Joseph SchumanMar 1st 2010 – 7:02PM
AFP / Getty Images

AFP / Getty Images

(March 1) -- A NATO task force intercepted and sank a pirate mother ship off the Horn of Africa in a pre-emptive bid to disrupt the raiders' attacks on merchant ships ahead of peak piracy season. An assault team from the Danish destroyer HDMS Absalon, the NATO force flagship, boarded and then scuttled the large open boat...

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GADLING

Blackbeard's pirate ship gives up its anchor

By Sean McLachlan May 28th 2011 - 12:22PM

A pirate ship owned by the notorious Blackbeard is being investigated by archaeologists, who have just retrieved one of its anchors.

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Get Your Gasparilla Groove On

By Myscha L. Theriault Dec 29th 2010 - 08:50AM

Every year, Tampa's annual Gasparilla Pirate Festival brings hundreds of thousands of visitors to town, and gives the locals an extra reason to go out and get rowdy.

Background on pirate ship

Piracy is an act of robbery or criminal violence at sea. The term can include acts committed on land, in the air, or in other major bodies of water or on a shore.

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