Translation for "privateering" to spanish
Privateering
noun
Translation examples
noun
It's privateering, Caleb.
Patente de corso, Caleb.
I know of one such, she's a privateer, Bordeaux registry with letter's of marque to prey upon English shipping.
Conozco uno que lleva ese nombre, registrado en Burdeos con patente de corso para abordar mercantes ingleses.
Well, in his youth he was a deckhand on a privateer off the coast of Massachusetts.
Pues de joven era marinero de cubierta en un corso frente a la costa de Massachusetts.
The Vengeance was one of the privateers, a twenty-gun ship.
—El Vengeance era un navío con patente de corso de veinte cañones.
In any case they certainly know her, she having been a-privateering in these waters since March;
Ellos lo conocen porque ha hecho el corso en estas aguas desde marzo.
Indeed, some of them are so concerned with it that they overstep the mark between privateering and piracy.
Algunos se preocupan tanto por ellas que cruzan la línea que separa hacer el corso de la piratería.
None of the men about the table were cowards, but half of them were in business and their business was privateering.
Ninguno de los hombres que estaban a la mesa podía ser tachado de cobarde, pero la mitad de ellos tenían sus negocios y sus negocios eran el corso y la mercancía[2].
But as for prizes, as for the merely privateering aspects of the voyage, Mr Chauncy, my sailing-master, has a paper from his government.
Pero tanto por lo que respecta a las presas como a los aspectos puramente relacionados con hacer el corso, el señor Chauncy, el capitán, de hecho, tiene autorización de su gobierno.
“The only difference between a pirate and a privateer is the Letter of Marque from H.M.’s Government, which takes a big share of the profits.
La única diferencia entre un pirata y un corsario es la Patente de Corso del Gobierno de S. M., que se queda con buena parte de los beneficios.
Massachusetts insured all the private ships; paid the crews; supplied the militia; provided weapons, ammunition, and stores; and lost every penny.
Massachusetts aseguró todos los barcos con patente de corso, abasteció a la milicia, proporcionó armas, munición y provisiones, y perdió hasta el último penique.
Oh, as for the privateering side, that was entirely his Yankee sailing-master, and they would certainly never have joined in that - not against their own countrymen, though natural enough, in war-time, on the part of a foreigner.
—En cuanto a hacer el corso, era un asunto del oficial de derrota, que era yanqui. Ellos nunca se hubieran sumado a eso ni se hubieran opuesto a sus propios compatriotas ni, como es natural, se hubieran puesto de parle de un extranjero.
It refused the fight and tried to save itself in some port of the Mexico. He was probably not running away out of fear, but to run to warn them garrisons the coastal cities of the presence of a privateer ship and put them in guard.
Rehuía el combate y trataba de refugiarse en algún puerto de México, para advertir a las guarniciones de las ciudades costeras la presencia de un barco de corso y ponerlas en guardia.
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