Clockwork's Pirates

They came howling out the darkness, firing pistols, swinging cutlasses. Reeking of steam and with machine oil splashing from their joints, the robot raiders sacked the ship. John Wesley Sand was thrown overboard along with the captain. The governor's daughter was abducted for ransom. And then, despite wizards and sorcerers, the pirates reneged on the deal and packed her off to the slave markets. (from the first page of the Ace Double)