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Finally I can move again after 3 days o' cutlass,axe and knife training! Just got finished with the Maritime Weapons classes at ISMAC last weekend. The instructors John Lennox, Steve Huff and meself spent the weekend training folk in Bowie, tomahawk, cutlass, military sabre, boarding axe and hand-to-hand and then turned the students loose on the upper deck of the riverboat Michigan Princess to test their attack / defense scenarios. We ended up making the news, especially with the Jolly Roger flyin' astern instead of the "right n proper" flag. With new plans and new weapons scenarios for 06 this is not an event to be missed; it was IMO informative and a helluva lotta …
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… occasioned by a Tragical Spectacle, in a Number of Miserables under a Sentence of Death for Piracy, etc. Boston, 1704. - by Cotton Mather. Anyone got access to a copy?
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Just saw this and thought I'd share it.
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Bart Roberts
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Hi all, Can anyone help me out with a hunch I'm trying to chase? I need to know, relatively exactly (well, more exact than "off the African coast") where Bart Roberts and his consorts were operating in mid-late August until the end of September 1721. Cheers
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This coming friday (8-5-05) I will be a guest at a colonial dinner re-enactment, and will be asked to tell a short story. My persona is a privateer/pirate, so it would be nice to tell a pirate tale. Does anyone have a short story, possibly humorous, that I could pass on? The date of the dinner is 1798. Thanks, Red Sam Flint
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I belong to a historicle society in northern Minnesota, I portray an ex-privateer/pirate from Nova Scotia who is adventuring the interior of North America. I have come across a North West Co. fur post having a rondezvous and am spending some time there. I like to back up my storys with actual history, and would like to know what kind of piracy was going on from 1782-1798, and which i could have been from? In 1780-81 I was a privateer aboard the schooner "adventure" from Halifax, Nova Scotia. I would have liked to have done some piracy after that. Can anyone help me with my persona? Thanks, Jaymes William Byrd (a.k.a. Red Sam Flint)
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Ever hear the nursery rhyme that goes, " Sing a song of six-pence/ a pocket full of rye " ? Ever wonder what it really means ? I came upon this here little tid bit as I was doin some o me research. I hope ye all like it as much as I did...Damn, can't stop singin it now.......(check it out mateys) - http://www.snopes.com/lost/sixpence.htm
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John Quelch
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What ho chaps, On various websites and books John Quelch's flag is described from a seemingly contemporary quote as "ornamented by and anatomy with an hourglass in one hand, and a dart in the heart with three drops of blood proceeding from it in the other" Cordingly, in Under the Black Flag says that this quote originated at Quelch's trial "in 1702". BUT a: Quelch hadn't even turned pirate in 1702 and b: I've recently acquired a copy of the trial report and it makes no mention of such a flag. The earliest reference I have found for this quote comes from The Book of Buried Treasure by Richard Paine (1911). Paine doesn't offer a source for his quote, but elsewhere he r…
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ATTN ON DECK-- mod here. This thread is way off course and has developed into a parallel thread to 'Askin yer Advice'. I'm going to request you post answers to it over there. Sorry and all that, but we only have one section for the real history and we're quite a bit away from that. Hawkyns Moderator
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From http://www.herald.ns.ca/stories/2005/06/20...0/f178.raw.html Dig uncovers ritzy side of Acadian life Remnants of pricey items found By ANTHONY COOPER ANNAPOLIS ROYAL - Archeologist Marc Lavoie and a team of students from Universite Sainte-Anne have uncovered a rash of new Acadian artifacts from the Belleisle marsh, a former salt marsh that stretches from Annapolis Royal to Bridgetown. The artifacts, described as everything from pipes to pottery, illustrate more completely than ever the daily lives of the Acadian people in the early 1700s. Excavations took place in the spring of 2004 and again last month at the site along the Annapolis River where numerous found…
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While at lunch the other day I was reading Pirates of New Spain, 1572-1742. The intro is about the geography, and settlements. I thought the description of Acapulco was interesting. Then I came across this!!! "In the early 18th century there was also a civilian militia composed of all able-bodied Negroes, mulattoes, and Chinese, divided along racial lines into three companies." Anyone here have any more info on these guys?
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Having built several astrolabes and used them at sea myself I can assure you that a: wooden astrolabes DO work at sea and on land, and that b: given that some astrolabes were 2ft or so across you REALLY want a wooden one from time to time. I have also come across wooden astrolabes with a sheet of lead around the bottom edge for weight. There's nothing either impractical or inauthentic about wooden astrolabes if made and used properly and sensibly. You make a good point, but to say never (in bold no less!) is, in my experience, pretty wide of the mark I'm afraid :)
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Whew! Been busting my behind making some products and ordering others for our local pirate festival (and activities at the local library). Here's what I've done over the past three weeks- 1. Made a wooden quadrant loosely based on those exhibited on the Greenwich Maritime website (it's accurate to within a degree). 2. Leather covered powder flask attached to a cord, worn around the neck with a leather pouch. 3. Two replica grenades such as those found on the Whydah and suspected QAR wreck. Totally inert, used some pool balls (will have to order wrought iron fence post balls eventually). 4. Constructed a trades good box/personal camp box much like that exhibited on …
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Wow, just stumbled upon this archive of cases from the Old Bailey. I doubt there's anything piratical herein, but certainly plenty of other fun crimes were being committed!!! http://www.oldbaileyonline.org/history/cri...tml#shoplifting One would hope the Admiralty would do something similar someday... or maybe they have and I just haven't found it?
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Hey mates, I be takin' a class in Storytelling at uni this semester, and for my final story I've been hoping to find a suitable piratical tale to tell. Unfortunately, my luck thus far has been a bit lacking; I've found a few sites with piratical fables and folklore on them, but all of the stories are a mite too short to be used (our time limit is twenty minutes, and while I don't want a story that would take THAT long to tell, I want one longer than three or four minutes). Does anybody know of any good pirate tales available online? Any suggestions would be much appreciated!
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Thursday at 9 on Maryland Public Television: "A fight for the throne between Protestant King William of Orange and the Catholic King James II leads to the eventual division of Ireland, impacting modern British rulers. Peter Snow and Dan Snow provide commentary." Looks cool. And considering the time period and the ramifications, this will probably be worth watching.
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I have many questions that are going to be up and coming through the wondrous resources of me mateys perfect knowledge and the education in maritime history I do not have. I employ any and all within eye shot with challenges as they should come up and will come up fer quite somes times. This be a first one. Ifin Seville Espania were a shipping port and is now inland Spain (on a river) I have read the reason is that the city's host river be silted up so severely that the late 16th century were it last days of being port to sea. Here's me question(s)? What depth would the Spanish Galleons be? (that which be underwater and would cause the river to be non navigateable?)…
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While looking for something else today I can across this and could hardly believe it. It's a caricature of a Greenwich Pensioner (an inmate of the Greenwich Hospital for wounded seamen) drawn by George Cruikshank in 1827.
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This is at the Huntington Library in San Marino, CA. That's where I work: Lecture: “The Last Pirate Talk” June 2(Thursday) 7:30 p.m. Robert C. Ritchie, W.M. Keck Foundation Director of Research, will talk about the nature of 17th-century buccaneering and the myths that have been created about it. Free. Friends’ Hall.
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OK, back in the 60 my grandmother was a teacher (until the 80s actually, but our story begins in the 60s), and one of her subjects was drama. She staged and directed the school plays at more than one school for more than two decades and over that time collected an enormous amount of costume, much of it antique. Among this costume is this coat which I am now trying to give a decent identification to. I believe it to date to the late 18th or early 19th century, but I'm hoping that someone else might notice some detail I have missed or misinterpreted. The entire coat is handsewn, so it's not a later am-dram copy, and the buttons and braid appear to be an integral part o…
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The Image of the Ordinary Seaman in the 18th Century
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does anyone know if she had a flag of her own? i've searched the net for it and i've found nothing. any help would be great. thank you!
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Last weekend saw the launch of the Bonaventure skiff at the South West Pirate Festival at Morwellham, Devon. The skiff is 20' long and has a crew of 2-9. At present her motive power is provided by four oars but by the end of the year I hope to have added a main- and fore-sail, and possibly more oars. The skiff represents nearly 5 years of research and 1 year of building. At SWPF 2005 her crew behaved well and Bonaventure can now claim to be the only post-dark age UK re-enactment group to own and operate a waterborne vessel. We can also claim to be the first group to have properly re-enacted a boat-to-ship boarding action (we were the first to orchestrate a ship-to-ship …
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Greetins to ye! I've just gotten word that I may go ahead and post about the Boarding Actions Class at ISMAC this year! Held aboard the Michigan Princess riverboat, the class will take what the students learned in the Sabre, cutlass and hawk/knife class and learn how to put them to practical mixed-weapon use in a simulation of 17-18th century boarding actions. For more info, ye can hit Art of Combat's website (www.artofcombat.org) and click on Upcoming events and Special Events. The cutlass, sabre and hawk classes were such a huge hit last year that instructors Steve Huff, John Lennox and Gareth Thomas had to come up with something more grand this year. See you the…
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