SS Brazilia

Despite the best of intentions, to keep the battles of the Napoleonic Wars around European waters and Mediterranean Seas, every so often the fight would spill over into the South Atlantic, and so the French frigate the SS Burkha would make a bee-line for the southern waters of Galapagos and Beagle and then pursue our own Royal Navy and Allied ships around the Falkland Islands, while the Brazilian captain of the SS Burkha used to boast that he had exchanged an ep ring for a matrimonial ring in his own day when his clubhouse was raided by Portuguese squaddies looking to press-gang in those summer days of summer heat. The other French ships of their lines, the Hudson, the Sherrington, the Fairhouse, the Coughlin, the Sharks, the O'Loughlin, the Marsden, the Egon Ronay, the Anders, the Antonio, the Farrellaid, the Stoneham, the McDaid, the Shaughnessy, their Carola-Savoranola, all these and others shifted gear then and sailed to the South Atlantic where the action was keener, the pickings richer, linking up with other Brazilian corvettes seeking to outflank and derazz the RN fleet down there about Port Stanley. Messy business showing how ambitious those Brazilian rogue pirates flying the Black Pearl quite officially were in fact if not de iure. Ambition - the real motive for the later assaults on Port Royale in the Caribbean at Jamaica on a famous island.