Great story from Pigeon Inlet there, Jack. I've been fortunate enough to hear that one on the radio, but that highly valuable link has a bunch more of them at:

http://www.pigeoninlet.nfnet.com/archive.htm

I had an ancestor who was a privateer out of New Brunswick in the war of 1812. It did not go well for him, lost his sloop then his farm, which he had mortgaged to fit out the sloop.

W-O