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en-wikipedia-org-7362		Piracy - Wikipedia			.html	text/html	24846	2332	71	Historic examples include the waters of Gibraltar, the Strait of Malacca, Madagascar, the Gulf of Aden, and the English Channel, whose geographic structures facilitated pirate attacks.[2] A land-based parallel is the ambushing of travelers by bandits and brigands in highways and mountain passes.[3] Privateering uses similar methods to piracy, but the captain acts under orders of the state authorizing the capture of merchant ships belonging to an enemy nation, making it a legitimate form of war-like activity by non-state actors.[4] Purpose-built galleys (or hybrid sailing vessels) were built by the English in Jamaica in 1683[26] and by the Spanish in the late 16th century.[27] Specially-built sailing frigates with oar-ports on the lower decks, like the James Galley and Charles Galley, and oar-equipped sloops proved highly useful for pirate hunting, though they were not built in sufficient numbers to check piracy until the 1720s.[28]	./cache/en-wikipedia-org-7362.html	./txt/en-wikipedia-org-7362.txt