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Commerce raiders

  • Francis Drake's circumnavigationIn 1567, a fleet led by the English privateer Sir John Hawkins conducted a slave trading voyage across the Atlantic to sell enslaved Africans in Spanish and…
  • CSS ShenandoahOn the 17th of August 1863, a ship named Sea King launched from the yards of Alexander Stephen & Sons in Glasgow. This iron-framed vessel carried teak planks…