Did You Know....? - What a Coincidence
In 1799 an American Privateer, The Nancy, was seized by a British warship in the Caribbean. Prior to capture, the Nancy's skipper, Thomas Briggs, managed to throw the ship's American papers overboard and replace them with Dutch forgeries. Charged in Jamaica with running a British blockade during wartime, Briggs looked set to go free for lack of evidence. But in the course of the trial, another British warship, HMS Ferret, arrived in port and produced the incriminating papers. The Ferret had caught a large shark of Haiti and inside the shark's stomach were the papers
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