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Friday, 30 August 2019

British warships ordered to pursue Moorish privateers according to the Dutch newspaper Algemeen Handelsblad 3 March 1849

From Gibraltar was reported that an squadron of war steamships which was send out to act against Moorish privateers returned without any results. According to the newspaper was it advisable to sent regularly a war steamship along the Moroccan coast to threaten the privateers while it was feared that they stayed hidden until the squadron had disappeared before they went searching for merchant ships which came in problems caused by windlessness.