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  • Junkung

    Junkung
    2026/07/08
    Junkung, also spelled jungkung or jungkong, is a small wooden sail to motorized boat used by Tausug, Sama-Bajau, and Yakan people of the Philippines. It is a fast cargo ship and is commonly used as a smuggling vessel in the maritime borders of the Philippines, Sabah, Malaysia and Eastern Indonesia. They are also sometimes used by pirates and Abu Sayyaf terrorists in and around the Sulu Sea. The ju
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  • Bajak

    Bajak
    2026/07/08
    Bajak is a type of sailing prahu of the Dayak people of Borneo. It is propelled by both sail and oars. The bajak has a sharp but hollow bow, with projection at top. It has large square stern which projects at the sides of the hull and supported by two strong beams. On the side of the vessel are projecting open galleries for oarsmen. Bajak has two mast with lug rig, and a bowsprit which support hea
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  • Barbary Slave Trade

    Barbary Slave Trade
    2026/07/07
    The Barbary slave trade involved the capture of Europeans and selling them at slave markets in the largely independent Ottoman Barbary states of North Africa during the early modern period. European civilians and merchant seamen were captured by Barbary corsairs in slave raids on ships and by raids on coastal towns from Italy to Ireland, coasts of Spain and Portugal, as far north as Iceland and in
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  • Speronara

    Speronara
    2026/07/07
    The speronara (Maltese: xprunara, French: spéronare) was a small merchant ship originating in Malta that was used in the Mediterranean Sea from the 16th to the early 20th centuries. The vessels usually had no deck and only one mast, often with a lateen or spritsail. Some larger vessels had a half deck or up to three masts. They were common in the trade between Malta and Sicily, and they also trave
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  • Great Lakes Patrol

    Great Lakes Patrol
    2026/07/07
    The Great Lakes Patrol was carried out by American naval forces, beginning in 1844, mainly to suppress criminal activity and to protect the maritime border with Canada. A small force of United States Navy, Coast Guard, and Revenue Service ships served in the Great Lakes throughout these operations. Through the decades, they were involved in several incidents with pirates and rebels. The patrol was
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  • Chaloner Ogle

    Chaloner Ogle
    2026/07/06
    Admiral of the Fleet Sir Chaloner Ogle KB (1681 – 11 April 1750) was a Royal Navy officer and politician. After serving as a junior officer during the Nine Years' War, a ship he was commanding was captured by three French ships off Ostend in July 1706 in an action during the War of the Spanish Succession. Ogle was given command of the fourth-rate HMS Swallow and saw action against the pirate fleet
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  • Oyster Wars

    Oyster Wars
    2026/07/06
    The Oyster Wars were a series of sometimes violent disputes between oyster pirates and authorities and legal watermen from Maryland and Virginia in the waters of the Chesapeake Bay and the Potomac River from 1865 until about 1959. == Background == In 1830, the Maryland General Assembly passed legislation which authorized only state residents to harvest oysters in its waters. Maryland outlawed dr
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  • Angelo Emo

    Angelo Emo
    2026/07/06
    Angelo Emo (3 January 1731 – 1 March 1792) was a Venetian naval officer. He is notable for his reforms of the Venetian navy and his naval campaigns, being regarded as the last great admiral of the Venetian Republic. The scion of a distinguished family, Emo received an excellent education, and began his naval career as a cadet in 1752. He was quickly recognized for his ability and given his first c
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