 In this book, the "Ouzel" is indeed commandeered by pirates – but in the Caribbean, not North Africa.And when she returns to Dublin there is no booty in her hold.Kingston is known to have visited Dublin in 1856 and 1857, and was a cousin of Sir John K. James, a long-standing member of the Ouzel Galley Society, so it is quite possible that he was privy to "the secret history" of the vessel.