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Not all famous pirates were men. One of the most notorious female pirates was Anne Bonny. EARLY LIFE Bonny’s exact birthdate is not known but is somewhere around 1700. She was said to be born in County Cork, Ireland. She was the daughter of servant woman Mary Brennan and Brennan’s employer, lawyer William Cormac. Official records […]

“In an honest service there is thin commons, low wages, and hard labor; in this, plenty and satiety, pleasure and ease, liberty and power; and who would not balance creditor on this side, when all the hazard that is run for it, at worst, is only a sour look or two at choking. No, a […]

The Marauder is set in the seas of the Spanish Main which is an odd place perhaps to find mention of the Hudson’s Bay Company. Founded in 1670, this Company still exists today as a retail giant in Canada. It had its beginnings in the North American fur trade, accumulating enormous wealth through the supply […]

The strategies pirates used for capturing ships are a lot more complex than you might think. In fact, many pirates opted for stealing the ships’ merchandise and treasures instead of actually taking the ship as their prize. Most pirate ships were not generally superior vessels in comparison to those from whom they were attempting to […]

Pirate ships of old spur the adventuresome imagination in us all. Especially those made famous by pirates such as Bartholomew Roberts, AKA “Black Bart” Roberts and his Royal Fortune(s). Yes, he named not one stolen ship that but several!   It all started July seventeen-twenty when he captured a French brigantine off the coast of […]

In the Ancient World, there was a confederacy of naval raiders who harassed the coastal cities and maritime trade routes in the Mediterranean before the Vikings. Called by many names, today we know them as pirates. Where did pirates live? In the Ancient World merchant ships never ventured far from land. They followed the coast […]