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TIL of the University of Sydney Pirates. In 1957, a group of 10 students dressed as pirates and boarded the U.S.S. Bennington. They then snuck to the bridge where they proclaimed, over the PA system of the ship, that "The U.S.S. Bennington has been captured by Sydney University pirates!"

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