I got a mission to take out a spanish merchant Santa Catalina. The merchant had full crew, and I got a message "You successfully located the spanish trade galleon" (or similar). I captured the ship, and got a bonus of 1000 gold.
However, the two next ships I encountered, in Cartagena, also had a full crew, and I got messages "You successfully located the spanish Trade Galleon" and "You successfully located the spanish Costal Barque".
The mission is bugged, methinks - it keeps registering subsequent ships as the target ship, even though I had completed the mission, and the ships were in the wrong location.
As I had sold the captured Trade Galleon for a sloop (downgrading ships is the premier way of earning money early in the game), I did not win both subsequent combats.
