Corsair Explained

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, a Marvel Comics character, a “space pirate” and the father of X-Men superheroes Cyclops and Havok

Novels

• 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

Music

• Il corsaro (The Corsair), an 1848 opera by Giuseppe Verdi
• Le Corsaire Op. 21, an 1844 overture 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

• , 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 multiplayer game
• Corsair class in Black Desert Online
• Drake Corsair, a flyable star ship in Star Citizen

Other arts and entertainment

• The Corsair, an 1814 poem by Lord Byron
• Le Corsaire, an 1856 ballet, still popular, based on Byron's poem
• Corsair (comics), a fictional character in the Marvel Comics universe
• 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#History

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
• 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
  • , 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 during the Spanish–American War
• Corsair III, a yacht built in 1898 for J. P. Morgan (the last he owned), that 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. in 1930, the largest built in the United States
• Corsair (dinghy), a class of sixteen-foot three-handed sailing dinghies

Other uses

• Corsair (Novell), a former operating system and user interface project for NetWare
• Onitsuka Tiger Corsair, a type of running shoe from Onitsuka Tiger
• Corsair Bay, a bay located in Lyttelton Harbour, Canterbury New Zealand
• The Corsair (Santa Monica College newspaper), the student newspaper of Santa Monica College, California
• The Corsair (Pensacola State College newspaper), the student newspaper of Pensacola State College, Florida

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