@grumble209
Nobody should be surprised by them failing to proceed or breaking.
They tend to the old and rusty.

Privateers with letters of marque from Ukraine could be interesting though. Take them as prizes, doubling the pressure on that economy.

#oil #pirates #privateers #oops

Three companies control the market for school lunch payments. They take as much as 60 cents out of every dollar poor kids' parents put into the system to the tune of $100m/year. They're literally stealing poor kids' lunch money.
#privateers

https://pluralistic.net/2024/07/26/taanstafl/#stay-hungry

Water sector is broken, union warns as privateers fined £114m for failures | Morning Star
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/water-sector-is-broken-union-warns-as-privateers-fined-114m-for-failures

#Water
#Union
#Privateers
#Ofwat
#DwrCymru
#SouthernWater
#ThamesWater
#AnglianWater
#BristolWater
#SouthEastWater
#YorkshireWater
#GMB
#WaterUK

The seas around #Florida and the Caribbean were home to many #pirates and #privateers, especially as Spain tried to return the treasures it took from the Americas back to Europe.
However, instead of using the stolen loot to buy things needed for supply and repair for their ships; legends constantly insist that they #buried their booty on this #island, Little Money Key, or maybe Money Key, or maybe a different island, or maybe any “money” on these keys was a myth to begin with.

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#LittleMoneyKey, #CyanIsland, #FloridaKeys, #Florida, #PirateTreasure, #Photography