I thought... "cool! a new word!"

[[Claude de Forbin]]

During the War of the Spanish Succession, he led a three-ship of the line division in the Adriatic, where he blockaded Venice, bombed Trieste and ramsonned Fiume. In 1703 and 1704, he hunted down the privateers from Vlissingen.

Alas, it appears this term is only found in Wikipedia, the Wikipedia-clones, and a rather largish collection of spam websites. Gods alone know why these two classes...