Examples
- See USS Nightingale (1851) for prize crew and prize court example.
- in 1939, the SS City of Flint was captured by a German warship in the Atlantic and sailed to Norway. As Norway was neutral, the German prize crew were eventually interned and the vessel returned to her American owners.
- In 1941, a Royal Navy prize crew sailed the captured, German, U-boat U-570 from Iceland to the United Kingdom.
- At the end of World War II, Bangust (DE-739) selected a prize crew to board Japanese submarine I-14.
- Hanna (DE-449) placed a prize crew on the Japanese Tachibana Maru at the end of World War II.
- U.S. Coast Guard cutters capture vessels during drug interdiction operations, and then bring them to port using prize crews.
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