Barbary corsairs—the name for both the ships and those who crewed them—were privateers who sailed for several countries along ...

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The idea of the Shipyard Accountability and Workforce Support plan is to allow the Navy and its shipbuilders more flexibility ...

Senator Lee proposes that Congress bring back into use the instrument of war known as the letter of marque and reprisal.

This is the oldest skull of a Barbary lion found in the UK. The lion was part of the royal zoo in the Tower of London 700 years ago. Workmen digging in the old moat around the Tower of London in 1937 ...

When you think of the U.S. Navy, you probably think of historical conquests against Barbary Pirates or heroism on the high seas. But one key thing our Navy needs today to thrive is a little more ...