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Posted: Tue Nov 16, 2010 8:50 pm Post subject: Wreck of a 18th century French corsaire found off Plymouth |
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The wreck of a feared French corsair which terrorised English ships during the 18th century has been discovered 60 miles off the Devon coast.
With 25 guns and a plunder-thirsty crew, La Marquise de Tourny was the scourge of the British merchant fleet about 260 years ago.
For up to a decade, the French frigate menaced sailors under a form of state-sanctioned piracy designed to cripple British trade.
But the 460-ton vessel from Bordeaux suddenly vanished in the mid 18th century, and mystery has surrounded its whereabouts ever since.
http://www.thisisplymouth.co.uk/news/Wrecked-feared-18th-century-French-pirate-ship-Plymouth/article-2898650-detail/article.html |
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