Captain Twill
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Anyone else out there a fan of Howard Pyle or N.C. Wyeth?
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I know that in France they used to brand thieves with a letter "V" on the forearm. The V stood for voleur, the French word for theif. Children caught stealing would get off "lightly" with this punishment for a first offense. On the second offense they would lose their hand. I noted that in Pirates of the Caribbean, Johnny Depp was branded with a letter P for pirate on his forearm and that this was supposedly done by the East India Company. Is there any basis for this in history?
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After hearing for years about snuff boxes, bottles and such and never quite knowing just what snuff was, I finally got around to looking it up. It was tabbacco, ground very, very fine. A bit of the stuff was pinched between the fingers and sniffed up the nose. It would seem quite logical to me that snuff was probably popular among seafarers on ships, as fire was an ever-present danger. Am I right in this assumption? Or was snuff a bad habit of the elite?
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There an interesting article on Blackbeard in American Neptune v.61:4 Fall 2001. The article cuts through the myth of Blackbeard and relies on contmeporary accounts that fit BB more in what is known of early 18th c. pirate society. If anyone wants a copy let me know privately and I will send you a copy for copying costs and postage. If you're coming to Ojai I bring you a copy and just charge for copying.
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pirate history for yer kids
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Nice book available for free online here: http://www.childrensbooksonline.org/Pirate...reat_Sea_Rover/
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Does anyone here have any interest in the war of 1812. If so, then speak up and lets get a discussion about it going. For all the pirates only diehards, don't forget about Lafitte at the battle of New Orleans. It was this pirate and a great many of his sailors that helped in the battle and were very effective in bringing about its victory for the states. Let me know what you think...... The Capt.
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Ah, for those who think they know everything about pyracy I have a quandry. I am but a poor, confused author of my own stories and I could use some help. My hours of research has only given me a few ideas and a twitch. I have browsed these topics, and will most likely spend another couple of hours reading, but I think this might be the best way for me to find what I'm looking for. So if anyone would be kind enough to provide links and/or information on the following topics, it would greatly help me from making a fool of my self and to keep as many accuracies as I can. My preference would be to have them from the middle ages, but I'll take what I can. ~ The titles and…
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I've read a few "general pirate history" books, but the names and events all tend to blur together over time. I think next I'd like to tackle a few bios that focus a bit more on a specific pirate (or group of pirates, if they tended to hang out together.) Any suggestions? I'm pretty open to which pirate to start with, but I want the book to be both interesting and historically accurate.
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Have any of you heard about either Ocean Born Mary or The Country Tavern? Ocean Born Mary has to do with a pirate taking over a ship bound for the colonies and making a deal with the captain's pregnant daughter that she name the child Mary if it turns out to be a girl... The haunting is in a house in Hennicker New Hampshire.. The Country Tavern is currently a restaurant in Nashua New Hampshire but back when the "events" happened it was a private home to a ship captain who went out to sea for 10 months and returned home to find his wife had given birth... he ended up murdering her and the baby and burying them in separate locations on the property... If you all are in…
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Sorry about starting another new topic. This is a letter my great great grandfather wrote about his life. As far as I know, Great Great Grandfather Brumshagen had three ships, all of which he "lost". Pretty awful, I think, to go from Captain to night watchman. I don't think I'd survive it. Someone should have told him about paragraphs. The letter was originally written in German. The translator should have just typed it up. She had bad cursive. Hope you enjoy. ***** My life as I remember it. In the year of 1839, April 14, I was born in Bodstedl, a small town in Vorpommern County seat Stralsund (this is the name of the city) Province, Germany. My father was a mill own…
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Just finished reading "A Hanging Offense: The Strange Affair of the Warship Somers" by Buckner F. Melton, Jr. First impression - WOW. In short, it's the true story of a small American brig in the 1840s. It was on a cross-atlantic training cruise, manned almost entirely by boys ranging from 15 to 20ish. One of the boys, a midshipman (and son of the Secretary of War) allegedly plotted to take over the ship and go pirate - and was subsequently hanged (along with two of his conspirators) without trial. Apparently this was quite the national affair when it happened, but today I doubt the average person has ever heard of it. I highly recommend this book to anyone who hasn't r…
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Subject: Whatever happened to Blackbeard's head?!! After Blackbeard was decapitated by Lt. Maynard's crew, his head was hung out up at the junction of the James River and the Hampton River as a warning to potential pirates, where it stayed there for many years. Eventually, it was removed and, according to multiple sources which are deemed reputable by those at Williamsburg, The skull was covered in silver and fashioned into a the base of a drinking vessel. This was in place for many years at the Raliegh Tavern in Colonial Williamsburg. The tavern still exists, but sadly, the drinking vessel disappeared. Browsing through the Sept 2002 issue of NQG, I took note that in…
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My husband, Reginald "red rum" McCrumb, and I have had a long standing discussion as to exactly how a keelhauling is performed? (We want to do a pirate film, and want to accurately depict one.. ew) I understand basically the victim is tied and dragged along the keel of the ship (great method of debarnacling your hull?) but is it done across the back, the stomach? headfirst, or along your side? Or is it the madman committing the act's decision? Curious...
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Hi. The real reason I came to post: I am in the process of developing an SCA personna. I keep running into dead ends. I understand that the village of Baltimore (Baile Ti Mor) in the south of Ireland was raided by Algerian pirates in 1631 and approx. 100 people were carried off and sold into slavery. I want to know if this happened a lot and when this type of event started. I'm trying to fix a date for my personna as being born in 1592 and if I can't establish these raids as happening by this date then I'm going to have to think of something else and start over. Any information, if you can give me a legit. reference (as I have to document all this), would be greatl…
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Avast ye Scurvy Swabs, Now let's see if there be any of ye out there as can settle this'ere argument wot we be 'aving amongst our crew. Now one of the filthy dogs in P.U.B.C.A.T., one "One Eyed Black Jake" (ee don't really ave one eye, but ee thinks it gives im more sea cred), wants as his persona the character of a swiss pirate. Now Oi reckon's that'ee just be plain mad, but'ee says as there really was such a thing as a swiss pirate, so do any of ye swabs out there have any evidence to prove either one of us roight ?
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Ahoy me hearties..... I remembered a couple of books that I have that you might find interesting and helpful. The first is.... PIRATES..terror on the high seas from the carribbean to the south china sea... by worldwide illustrated history.... this is a hard back big book, with lots of pictures and great descriptions. The stories are brief, but, with good detail. The second is ... 20,000 years in fashion... by Abrams... This is a very thick book and rather on the expensive side. The only way I got it was to special order it. It is incredible in the amount of clothing it covers and is filled with incredible pictures and expressive detailing about all of it. it has everyth…
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Since I live here in San Diego, where the most momentous pirate battle of recent history took place in late January, I started wondering just where pirates were, are, and will be in the future. Didn't Bluebeard bury treasure on the North Carolina Outer Banks? And what's the story with the Barbary Coast in San Fransisco? Did pirates sail around tierra del fuego? Also, how much of the Caribbean was frequented by pirates? And when did that stop (if it in fact ever did)? Where can we find real pirates today? Thailand? Do ATF pirates operate between Florida and Cuba?
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I just finished reading this book for the second time. .... The Atrocities of the Pirates..... by Aaron Smith.. The book is well written and although short, it does give a good amount of detail. Aaron Smith was a mariner in the early 1800's who was taken captive on a pirate schooner. He was later taken prisoner and sent to trial. What is also really good about this book is that it gives you a very nice follow up as to what happened to most of the major characters in the story. The fact that the primary character is also the author, helps with the details. I also think that many of you will find the bibliography interesting. It list some very interesting titles that I thin…
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Free texts?
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Oi there! I was wondering if anyone knows about any copyright-free texts bout pirates in digital form that one can use. We are trying to collect as many texts as possible on our site at the moment, but I realized that there are very few... As we all know there were quite a few books written bout pirates several hundred years ago and many of these should be copyright-free by now. But are they digitalized? Other subjects interresting would be fencing, sailing, guns, historical food and drinks and historical gaming. The idea is not to collect links but to collect the actual texts so the we won´t be depending on an external servers existence. Best wishes /Micke
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The Francis Drake Plate Hoaxsters to be revealed!
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The 20th century hoax surrounding that most famous privateer is finally explained. The answer will be the California History Magazine to be published this week. Saturday, February 15, 2003 SAN FRANCISCO, California (AP) -- It turns out that one of the West's enduring mysteries -- a tale of 16th century explorers and a perplexing brass plaque -- was a 1930s prank sprung on a university professor by a group of friends. Tests in the late 1970s proved that the small brass plate with old English inscriptions was not in fact the one left by Sir Francis Drake when he sheltered just north of San Francisco in 1579. One puzzle remained: just which 20th century pranksters pla…
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