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3. With no cargo and no crew, all they could do is hold the boat and experiments to ransom

Tue Sep 15, 2020, 07:14 AM

Sep 2020

and there would be far less pressure to give in to that than if there were a crew involved.

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Ship with no crew to sail across the Atlantic [View all] sl8 Sep 2020 OP

Wow Sherman A1 Sep 2020 #1

Sounds ripe for pirates. Throck Sep 2020 #2

Not a lot of pirates in the North Atlantic (n/t) PJMcK Sep 2020 #4