Truth is

Truth is .... out here on the high water markers of the Western Clyde and the Scottish Seas it is not so easy to tell. Old greybeard of the Grey Wolf is around somewhere too up here near the Icelandic coastlines and there are one or two French ships too around. Russian cargo vessels carrying silver in the main is what the old greybeard likes to raid as one of the older sort of pirate he has much to quarry on russian ships out of Murmansk on their runs to Rekjavicar and Greenland and St George's Newfoundland. The Hanseatic League of ports have approached us to go look out for this character on our sealanes but he is very alussive if not elusive and has painted his ship in grey so as to be invisible in the usual fogs up here in the northern silver seas of mercurio. Not easy spotting this one - very hanseatic himself - and drinks alot of vodka and rum. Still we shall endeavour to find him for the old Tsar Vladimir's sake. And sned him and his crew back to Port Royale with his tail between his legs.