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by AlbertCory 743 days ago
I can tell you haven't read Patrick O'Brian's Master and Commander series.

Cacafuego is the name of a much bigger ship that Jack Aubrey captures.

Of course, that's fiction, and the speculation is that POB chose that name as a sort of inside joke.

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I regret to report I have not, though they've been on my list for some years. But the joke sounds, by reputation at least, very much of the sort O'Brian would enjoy.