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Originally American built and registered, “The Pass of Balhama” was captured by a WW1 German U Boat, renamed “Seeadler” (Sea Eagle) and legally commissioned by the German Government as a “Privateer”. A raider who had license to take enemy shipping where it could be found. The “Great War” as WW1 was known was the last major conflict to allow such licensed privateering. A tradition that went back to those like Sir Francis Drake, licensed as a Privateer by the British Government.
Many say “Pirate”….Depends I suppose on whose point of view you take.
Mopelia Atoll, Society Islands – French Polynesia
June 10, 2010