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| | Pirates in Modern Days:
In international law- Piracy is an international crime committed in open sea, which consists of illegal capturing, robbery and drowning of merchant and civil ships. Attacking a neutral country’s ships, submarines and Air Force and merchant navy, is also considered as piracy. Pirate ships, airplanes and their crew No country should protect country pirate ships, airplanes and their crew. Irrespective of flag hoisted, pirate ships can be captured, by any ship or airplanes working under a country and respective ship or airplanes are empowered to do so by the country’s authorities.
Piracy exists as on today also in East and South-East Asia and in some waters of North-Western Africa.
Jolly Roger
Idea behind sailing under own flag is potentially dangerous and not endowed with reason, but it serves the purpose to have moral effect on crew while attacking the ship. Initially, for this intimidation purpose, they used incarnadine flag, where death symbols - a skeleton or simply a skull were depicted. Precisely, from this flag, according to most quoted version, originates the expression “Jolly Roger”, which in French sounds “Joli Rouge” (fair red). While borrowing the expression from French filibusters in West Indies, British adapted that expression in their own style; later when the origin of expression was forgotten, then came up the explanation for “jolly smirk” of the skull depicted on flag.
Odyssey Marine Exploration, Inc. has been searching the ocean for over 10 years, and finally found crates of gold last week at the site of a Civil War-era shipwreck about 100 miles east of Savannah. The gold is believed to be from the side-wheel steamer SS Republic, sank during a hurricane in 1865, and is estimated to be over worth over $120 million. |
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