The wreck is the first time the remains of a pirate corsair have been found "in the Barbary heartland." When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.

"Less famous than the pirates of the Caribbean, the corsair capital of Algiers turned to piracy far earlier and was a much bigger business," Sean Kingsley, editor-in-chief of Wreckwatch magazine ...

the Florida-based company was searching for the HMS Sussex—an 80-gun English warship that was lost in 1694—but stumbled across the corsair along the way. To investigate their surprise pirate ...

No Spanish ships or ports were safe when dread pirate Barbarossa, ally of the powerful Ottoman Empire, sailed the high seas. Hayreddin’s brother Oruç was the first to be known as Barbarossa.

Wreck-hunters have discovered the remains of a small 17th-century pirate ship, known as a Barbary corsair, in deep water between Spain and Morocco. The wreck is "the first Algiers corsair found in the ...