The ship was once manned by Barbary corsairs, who were primarily Muslim pirates and privateers. They operated from the coast of North Africa and were a constant scourge for European ships—and ...

With the invasion of the Americas, Europe conquered ... and later as corsairs in the service of the Ottoman Empire. Oruc went on to become one of the most famous Barbary pirates in history ...

“Corsairs were involved in the African and European slave trade and continuing ... Corsairs, another term for a pirate, would loot ships centuries ago to capture people and then sell them ...