Stevens At Sea: Priority Despatch from First Sea Lord

All Ships: Alert! The Dread Pirate Ben Stevens, son of the Dread Lord Stevens, is at large, at sea!

Reports: "A Shell contractor, Bering Marine Corp., a unit of Anchorage-based transportation company Lynden Inc., hired Stevens as mate and relief skipper aboard the 121-foot combination tug and landing craft Arctic Seal." She prowls the waters of the Bering sea, seeking lone, rich Indiamen blown far astray, and fat, floating earmarks, as sea-prizes, to serve his insatiable lust for riches and power and the most insidous forms of debauchery.

This rapacious and blaggardly criminal, in the phantasmagorical guise of noble office, has wantonly laid waste to justice at strand near and afar remote. But caution! His very touch is corruption itself!

All ships in Her Majesty's service, upon sighting the Rogue vessel, are directed to board her forwith, with the Upmost despatch, and clap the escaped criminal Dread Pirate Ben Stevens in irons, if circumstances favor, or else, eradicate the menace from the seas in the greater Haste, watching all the while for the most nefarious and despisable turns of Ttreachery. On sighting the M/V Arctic Seal, Trust no signal, Give her No quarter, but subdue her, without restraint.

- First Sea Lord,
Aboard HMS Sovereign of the Seas, Vancouver, 8 Aug 1787