Very interesting!
As an aside, my sister-in-laws boyfriend claims to have been present on the last Royal Navy vessel captured in an act of piracy.
He said was serving on a RN patrol boat in the 70's during a period when there was a protests about access to fishing grounds. They were tied up in a French fishing harbour and most of the crew were on shore leave when a couple of fishing boats pulled along side and threw accross the gapples while other protesting fishermen ran along the doc and cut their lines. The fishermen then dragged the patrol boat around the harbour for a couple of hours while the three of them left on the boat stood scratching their heads trying to work out what they could do without causing a major incident.
After the fishermen had made their point they let them loose and went off to the pub to celebrate!
Ahrrrrr!
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