 Two years later, however, in the autumn of 1700, the "Ouzel" made her unexpected reappearance, sailing up the River Liffey to scenes of both disbelief and wild jubilation.Captain Massey later described how the ship had fallen victim to Algerian corsairs on its outward journey.The crew were taken to North Africa, where they were forced to man the ship while their new masters engaged in acts of piracy against merchant vessels returning from the Caribbean or plying the lucrative Mediterranean shipping lanes.