Corsair
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A corsair is a privateer or pirate, especially:
Barbary corsair, Ottoman and Berber privateers operating from North Africa
French corsairs, privateers operating on behalf of the French crown
Corsair may also refer to:
Arts and entertainment
Comic books
Corsair (character), Marvel Comics character
Corsairs Squad, a training squad in New X-Men (2004 series)
Novels
Corsair, a 1987 nautical historical novel by Dudley Pope
Corsair (Bunch novel), a 2001 fantasy novel by Chris Bunch
Corsair (Cussler novel), a 2009 adventure novel by Clive Cussler
Music
Il corsaro (The Corsair), an 1848 opera by Giuseppe Verdi
Le Corsaire (overture), 1844, by Hector Berlioz
The Corsairs, a 1960s doo-wop group
"Corsair", a song on the 2002 album Geogaddi by Boards of Canada
"Corsair", a 2007 song from the EP Voyage by In Fear and Faith
Video games
Corsairs: Conquest at Sea, a 1999 game by Microïds
Corsairs (Freelancer), a fictional criminal organization in Freelancer
Corsair, an evolution to the Gambler class in Final Fantasy XI: Treasures of Aht Urhgan
The Corsair, a persona in the Assassin's Creed: Revelations multiplayer game
Corsair class in Black Desert Online
Other arts and entertainment
The Corsair, an 1814 poem by Lord Byron
Le Corsaire, an 1856 ballet based on Byron's poem
Corsair (film), a 1931 American gangster film
Companies
Corsair Gaming (formerly Corsair Components), an American computer peripherals and hardware company
Corsair International (formerly Corsairfly and Corsair), a French airline
Corsair Marine, a builder of trimaran sailboats
Corsair, an imprint of publisher Constable & Robinson
Military
Vought F4U Corsair, a US Navy World War II and Korean War fighter aircraft
Vought SBU Corsair, a US Navy biplane dive bomber first flown in 1933
Vought O4U Corsair, the name of two experimental biplane scout-observation aircraft, neither of which entered regular service
LTV A-7 Corsair II, a US Navy and later US Air Force jet attack aircraft
Vought O2U Corsair, a US Navy biplane scout and observation aircraft
Corsair, a subclass of the Tench-class submarine, a US Navy World War II class
USS Corsair (SS-435), a US Navy submarine
USS Corsair (SP-159), a private steam yacht briefly chartered by the US Navy in World War I
Transportation
Air
Cessna 425, a light aircraft originally known as Corsair
Corsair International, a French airline subsidiary of the TUI Group
Corsair (G-ADVB), a Short Empire flying boat flown by Imperial Airways and BOAC
Land
Edsel Corsair, an American automobile of the late fifties
Ford Corsair, a British car model of the late 1960s, and an Australian model of the late 1980s
Corsair motorcycle, built by Cotton
Corsair, a GWR Bogie Class broad gauge locomotive that was built for and run on the Great Western Railway between 1849 and 1873
Corsair, locomotive No. 3037 of the GWR 3031 Class that was built for and run on the Great Western Railway between 1894 and 1908
Lincoln Corsair, a compact American crossover
Phantom Corsair, a prototype two-door sedan built in 1938
Sea
Corsair I, a yacht built by William Cramp and Sons for Charles J. Osborn and bought by J. P. Morgan in 1882
Corsair II, a yacht built for J. P. Morgan in 1891, which served as USS Gloucester during the Spanish–American War
Corsair III, a yacht built in 1898 for J. P. Morgan (the last he owned), which served the US Navy in World Wars I and II, in the latter as USS Oceanographer
Corsair IV, a yacht built for J. P. Morgan Jr.
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