privateer

There, Horace Hunley and his partners intended to operate the submarine as a privateer, helping the Confederacy break the blockade the North had placed on Southern ports.

After surviving some of the war’s most consequential battles, Greenwood goes home and then he becomes a privateer, Ward says.

Ecclestone, a former second-hand car dealer, recognised a kindred spirit and was a kind of guardian angel at times as Jordan navigated the choppy waters of being a privateer team owner.

Sir Francis Drake was an English privateer, sailing and seizing stuff on behalf of the queen.

She either became a privateer herself, taking to the Mediterranean Sea to attack Spanish holdings such as Gibraltar, or she licensed privateers to attack Spain in her name.