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Did the pirates of the Caribbean build a lair in Down East Maine?

It was a bestseller on both sides of the Atlantic and made superstars of its subjects: Blackbeard, Sam Bellamy, Calico Jack Rackham, Bartholomew Roberts, the women pirates Mary Read and Anne Bonny, and others. Most everything you’ve likely heard about these pirates came from this 1724 book, which inspired the later works of [...]

August 7, 2012 staveng42 Articles, History 0

Captain Morgan’s Treasure Discovered Near Panama

Arrrr… they be plunderin’ Captain Morgan’s treasures. They, of course, being a team of U.S. archaeologists; plundering, as in conducting an underwater search; and Captain Morgan’s treasures being the lost fleet of a 17th century Welshman, Captain Henry Morgan. Yes, the very Captain Morgan who makes appearances at countless happy hours in the form [...]

August 2, 2012 staveng42 Articles 0

New naval action-RPG game ‘Caribbean!’ unveiled

Snowbird Game Studios announced today the new naval action-RPG called Caribbean! The game is set in XVII century’s Caribbean region, whose unspeakable riches drew many European powers and pirates into the great fight. The game lets player decide their own role and goals and to create their own pirate adventure. Filled with spectacular and brutal sea battles, [...]

July 4, 2012 staveng42 Games 0

Nicholas van Hoorn

The pirate Nicholas van Hoorn (c. 1635 – buried 24 June 1683, Isla Mujeres) was born in Holland and died near Vera Cruz, Mexico. Nikolaas or Klaas was engaged in the Dutch merchant service from about 1655 until 1659, and then bought a vessel with his savings. With a band of reckless men whom he had enlisted, he became a terror to the commerce of the Netherlands. Later [...]

June 29, 2012 staveng42 Biographies 0

NBC PICKS UP ‘CROSSBONES,’ NEW ACTION-ADVENTURE SERIES ABOUT GOLDEN AGE OF PIRATES

From the award-winning creator of “Luther,” Neil Cross, and successful producing team of Walter Parkes and Laurie MacDonald (“Gladiator,” “Men in Black,” “The Ring”) comes an extraordinary action-adventure series “Crossbones” — with an unexpected moral center where one can’t be sure whether the pirates or the British crown are the villains. Ten episodes of “Crossbones” [...]

June 27, 2012 staveng42 Pirates In the News 4

Pirates In Cyclades

When North Africa had been definitively integrated into the Ottoman Empire, and above all when the Cyclades passed to the Kapudan Pasha, there was no longer any question of the Barbary pirates continuing their raids there. Thus they were active in the western Mediterranean. In contrast, the Christians had been driven out of the [...]

June 19, 2012 staveng42 Age of Pirates, History 0

The Pirate Governor by Pauline

For those who study the histories of seafaring and piracy, the story of Henry Morgan quitting the buccaneering life and becoming the Lieutenant Governor of Jamaica seems very novel indeed. A wicked, cruel man by any account, Morgan turned his ferocity on the men with whom he had once sailed, and hanged old mates not [...]

June 16, 2012 staveng42 Articles 0

The Legendary Adventures of the Pirate Queens

If you think you have troubles, consider Mary Read, an Englishwoman circa 1718: Forced to disguise herself as “Martin Read,” a sailor, she’s in love with another sailor – a man who has no idea his best friend is a woman. To make matters worse, they’re both captured by pirates. To make matters worse yet, [...]

June 10, 2012 staveng42 Books 2

Wreck of pirate ship found off the Scillies may hide a treasure trove

It is a swashbuckling tale of a time when no ship travelling the high seas was safe from the Pirate King of Scilly. In the mid-1600s, Captain John Mucknell’s name was a byword for looting and kidnap which the King of England himself had been urged to stamp out. Now the Western Morning News [...]

June 7, 2012 staveng42 Pirates In the News, Shipwreck News 0

Drake’s Raid on St.Augustine 1586

The following is a modern translation of an excerpt from: A Summarie and True Discourse of Sir Francis Drakes West-Indian Voyage, etc. [Begun by Walter Bigges, continued by Lieutenant Crofts and edited by Thomas Cates.] 19. On March 13th we again departed Cabo San Antonio, and on May 28th, sailing about Cabo de la Florida, we never [...]

June 3, 2012 staveng42 History 0