Corsair

A corsair (sometimes referred to as a buccaneer) is a privateer or a pirate, sometimes particularly the Barbary pirates.

Corsair may also refer to:

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, two different 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
• 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

Transportation

Air

• Cessna 425, originally known as Corsair

Sea

• Corsair II a yacht built by J. P. Morgan in 1891 which served as USS Gloucester (1891) during the Spanish–American War
• Corsair III, a yacht built in 1898 by Morgan that served the Navy in World Wars I and II, in the latter as USS Oceanographer (AGS-3)
• Corsair IV, J. P. Morgan, Jr. yacht, the largest built in the United States, launched April 10, 1930
• Corsair (dinghy), a class of sixteen-foot three-handed sailing dinghies

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 3031 Class locomotive that was built for and run on the Great Western Railway between 1849 and 1873

Companies

• Corsair Components, a hardware company that specializes in designing and manufacturing computer memory, power supply units and computer cases
• Corsair International (formerly Corsairfly and Corsair), a French airline
• Corsair Marine, a builder of trimaran sailboats

Arts and entertainment

Music

• 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

In print

• The Corsair, an 1814 poem by Lord Byron
• Corsair (comics), a fictional character in the Marvel Comics universe
• Corsair, a nautical historical novel by Dudley Pope, published in 1987
• Corsair (Bunch novel), a 2001 fantasy novel by Chris Bunch
• Corsair (Cussler novel), a 2009 adventure novel by Clive Cussler

Film and television

• Corsair (film), a 1931 American gangster film
• The Corsair, a Time Lord in the British TV series Doctor Who

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

Other uses

• Corsair (Novell), a former operating system and user interface project for NetWare
• Corsair Bay, a bay located in Lyttelton Harbour, Canterbury New Zealand

See also

• Corsaire (disambiguation)
• Corsaren (The Corsair), a 19th-century Danish satirical and political weekly magazine
• Korsaren (The Corsair), a late 19th-century/early 20th-century Norwegian satirical magazine
• Corsar, a Ukrainian anti-tank missile