I am prepared to seize the day. The pirates are going to try to seize the ship.
during the era when pirates were around, this was a common phrase in their dialect and ever since it has become conventional to say this when we speak of or act like pirates
The USS Constitution/ The Constitution
The piracy and other military problems caused by the Barbary pirates led to the USA's overseas battles. The pirates operated out of ports in North Africa. They harassed US shipping. They were important as to end these attacks by them the USA had to begin its Navy. The US Navy finally put an end to their attacks on US shipping by sending a warship and Marines to the Tripoli port used by the pirates.
Riddle 139 answer what you see is what you get .
Old Ironsides
In the early 1800's the American merchants became a dominate economic force in the pepper trade in Sumatra. Reports came to Washington DC that a US merchant ship had been seized by Sumatran pirates. President Andrew Jackson sent a US warship there to investigate. The result of this was that the US's pepper trade was freed to operate, as the pirates backed away.
USS Constitution
USS Enterprise (CV-6).
A very fast warship used during the war of 1812 by the US Navy was a frigate.
Under international law, pirates can be tried by the coutnry that catches them. Capturing pirates falls under the perogative of any intrested warship who catches them in the act or finds reasonable cause(weapons, loot, hostages).
One example: USS Enterprise (CV-6)