At Sea
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After blockading Charleston Harbor in 1718, Blackbeard's four ship flotilla sailed northward towards Ockracoke Inlet, NC where he met his demise. This view from Bald Head Island has the flotilla passing by offshore.
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Portrays the pirate, Jean Hamlin, who made his escape from Amalie Harbor in St.Thomas with the help of the governor as the royal navy burnt his ship, the Deception.
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The H.M.S. Rose replica became H.M.S. Surprise in the film, Master and Commander: Far Side of the World. This is a recreation of a helicopter view from the film, painted at sea level from research photography of a sea battle re-enactment.
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This pox riddled, son of a scoundrel is holding a round shot. You can just hear this greedy swab yell, "This one's got your name on it!"
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This son of a souced lobster holds a linstock with a lit slow match ready to fire the fine grained powder poured into a fuse at the cannon's touch hole to prime the charge. As the slow match ignites the powder, he yells, "Harr matey, have a ball! "
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Few women pirates have been documented. Apart from a Chinese pirate queen, an Irish captain, Anne Bonney, and Mary Read, history makes little mention of female buccaneers. Piracy and a life at sea was not all that appealing to most women of the time.
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During the age of sail, the weather gauge provided a tactical advantage in engagements. To close or bear off, to reduce or add more sail, to board or escape are maneuvers more easily performed upwind. Sea rovers used this advantage to perform blitzes upon merchant ships firing as much small caliber shot in a barrage as they sailed past.
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"What do you do with a drunken sailor", a sea shanty that comes to mind as pirates in a recently captured prize flounder among Caribbean shoals, sampling the alcohol discovered among the stores found in the hold. The rovers are not seriously drunk, yet - for they are not quite "two sheets to the wind".
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Pirates "on the account" needed to be vigilant to secure as much wealth as possible from sea trade. The best brace of pistols aboard a captured vessel were awarded to the shipmate who first sighted the intended prize. The first pirate to board in an action was also rewarded. Pirates had incentive programs!
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Pirates were notorious for swapping vessels. They left garbage rotting aboard, and ignored ship's cleanliness, except for the exterior hull, since barnacles and seaweed impaired their speed. As the smell and the squalor mounted, or when the bottom became too foul, a new prize became their refit, and their abused discards were destroyed.
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