Almost every pirate ship had their own set of guidelines that all pirates had to agree to. Each pirate ship had its own set of rules and code. And a pirate’s treasure didn’t always include gold or silver most of it was food, lumber, cloth, and animal hides.ġ0. Pirates didn’t always bury their treasure. Some pirates didn’t bury their treasure right away because they wanted their share of the loot beforehand. When they did torture their prisoners, it was usually through keelhauling (dragging a tied sailor in the water from the back of the ship), marooning a person on a deserted island or remote sandbar, or lashings with a leather whip.ĩ. They didn’t really make people walk the plank. Although walking the plank is common in contemporary pirate lore, most pirates just killed people straightaway. Pirates did have eye patches. It’s been said that one of the reasons pirates wore eye patches was to help keep one eye adjusted to night vision for seeing below deck.Ĩ. Captain Woodes Rogers chased the pirates out of The Bahamas. Captain Woodes Rogers, a former privateer, went on to become the governor of The Bahamas, and in the process, helped drive all the pirates off the Islands.ħ. The US Navy knows how to fight above and below the oceans of the world and whether they fly the Jolly Roger or not their naval power reigns supreme.Ħ. While the US Navy doesn’t hoist the black pirate flag on its bows it does enter the waters of the sea hell-bent on sending its enemy to Davey Jones’ locker whenever the need arises. It doesn’t end well.įrom the days of the most skullduggery and life threatening pirates of the day from Blackbeard King Of pirates to Blackbeard, Ching Shih, Sir Francis Drake, Black Sam Bellamy, Bartholomew Roberts, Captain Kidd and both Anne Bonny and Mary Read to name a few these blood thirsty pirates were legendary. It could have been the Pirates of the Caribbean and their billion dollar movie empire, or maybe what got you started was the magical Kingdom’s ride bearing the same name? Regardless of what got you first thinking about seafaring Pirates the one thing that can be held true is that when seen the Jolly Roger raises the black flag means something wicked is on the horizon and coming your way.
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