Pirates & Privateers, Scummers of the Seven Seas

The Duel between Blackbeard the pirate and lieutenant Maynard in Ocracoke Bay - painting by Jean Leon GÃ©rome FERRIS (August 8, 1863 to March 18, 1930)
In the morning of November 22, 1718 the boarding is launched, a wild fight follows. The frightening pirate Blackbeard and lieutenant Maynard of the Royal Navy meet.
They engage in a duel with the pistol. Blackbeard is hit. Then they are confronted in sabre. The Lieutenant breaks under the attacks of his terrible opponent.
Blackbeard hurls on him to deliver the fatal blow when a sailor stabs him the neck.
Suffering the pain, blood flowing everywhere, Blackbeard keeps on fighting courageously in spite of his multiple wounds... read more about the fight

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29 feb.- Adding an answer about the scurvy.

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20 oct.- Adding three answers about the four most famous pirates, how pirates loaded the cannons and how was life on a pirate ship.

16 oct.- Adding an answer about clothes of pirates.

31 jul.- Adding a lots of questions / answers about piracy.

24 jul.- My paintings about piracy : look at the making of The Siege of La Rochelle.

04 jul.- Adding The Talk Like a Pirate Day and a glossary of ships.

03 jul.- The biography of NAU Jean David (L'Olonnais).

02 jul.- Adding The questions everyone asks about pirates and privateers.

25 jun.- Adding Tortures.

20 jun.- Adding Olivier Levasseur aka La Buse and Blackbeard biographies.

19 jun. - Adding 81 pirates movies.

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What a poignant way to open this website is the terrible fight between the famous pirate Blackbeard and Lieutenant Maynard!
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5 questions/answers randomly on piracy

What actually was the grapple used for? Could it be used for things other than collision? Could it serve as the butt of a weapon (the cap) of the gun that was not used to fire only?
I have for a long time been looking for the exact name of a prow sculpture that had a face carved mostly in wood and was laid in front of a sailboat. Could pirates decorate their boats with such sculptures?
What weight can a pirate ship withstand?
Do you have the lyrics of the first song from the "Pirates of the Caribbean 3": Hoist The Colours?
What’s the name of the large protruding piece in the bow of a ship which is used to manipulate the anchor?

» See the 114 questions/answers.

85 BIOGRAPHIES OF PIRATES & PRIVATEERS !
in construction...

REAL Pirates & Privateers

· ALBARADE (d') Jean
· Alexandre dit Bras-de-fer
· ALVIDA (La Terrible)
· ANGENAUD Guillaume-Marie
· ANSTIS
· AVERY John (Long Ben)
· AVERY Henry
· BARBEROUSSE
· BART Jean
· BARTHOLOMEU
· BASQUE (le) Michel
· BELLAMY Samuel (Black Sam)
· BERRY (De) Charlotte
· BONNET Steede
· BONNY Ann
· BRESILIEN (Le) Roc (Rock Braziliano)
· CHING (Mme)
· CLISSON Dane
· COLE John
· DAMPIN William
· DANIEL
· DAVID Jan
· DAVIS Howel
· DRAKE (Sir) Francis
· DUGUAY-TROUIN René
· ENGLAND Edward
· ESNAMBUC (d') Belain
· EVANS John
· FLEURY
· FLY
· FRANC Pierre
· GLAODY Harry
· GRAAF (De) Laurent
· GRAMMONT (De) Le Chevalier
· HAWKINS John
· HORN Van (ou DOORN Van)
· HOWARD Thomas
· JENNINGS Henry
· KENNEDY
· KIDD William
· KODJA Ali
· LAFFITE Jean
· LAI CHOI SAN (Mme)
· LEGRAND Pierre
· LEVASSEUR Olivier (la Buse / le Buzzard / la Bouche)
· LOW Edward
· LOWTHER George
· LUSSAN (De) Raveneau
· MAINWARING Henry
· MARTEL
· MONTAUBAN
· MONBARS le Destructeur
· MORGAN Henry
· NAU Jean David (L'Olonnais)
· NORTH Nathaniel
· OEXMELIN Olivier Alexandre
· OREGON Bertrand
· PALO (De) Pie
· PAUL JONES John
· PAY Harry
· PELLOT Etienne (Le Renard Basque)
· PHILLIPS John
· PICARD (Le) Pierre
· PLESSIS Philippe
· PLUCKET Pierre-Edouard
· POINTIS (De) Le Baron
· RACKAM John (Calico Jack / Rackam-le-Rouge)
· READ Mary
· ROBERTS Bartholomew
· ROBERTS Welshman (Black Bart)
· SMITH John (Gow)
· SOUVILLE Antoine-Thomas
· SPRIGGS
· SURCOUF Robert
· SURCOUF Nicolas
· TEACH Edward (BLACKBEARD)
· TEW Tom
· VANE Charles

Pirates & Privateers of FICTION

· BARBE-ROUGE
· Jack SPARROW

· BOUFFE-DOUBLON
· Captaine CROCHET (HOOK)

· KERNOK le pirate
· Long John SILVER

Pirates & Privateers of FICTION or REALITY?
no solid proof of real existance

· MISSON

· Louis-Adhémar-Timothée Le Golif (BORGNEFESSE)

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