So.... i've been wondering...
Pirates, not the modern ones in a speed boat with machines guns, the old Yarr Harr Pirates.
How did they get those huge ships that you often see in the movies, pictures and stories? Where do they get the supplies to get that ship?
If they steal an imperial vessel, how? Where do they get the weapons?
Did they even exist in the first place?
Im so confused!
Even with all these questions, Captain jack sparrow is still awesome (<3)
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A lot of them were old navy officers that had nothing to do during times of peace and used their old war ships to plunder.
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At 8/17/10 02:31 PM, vannila-guerilla wrote: A lot of them were old navy officers that had nothing to do during times of peace and used their old war ships to plunder.
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I am a Pirate. I live on a fucking Island for god sake.
They stole Emperial vessles, and cannons.
Blackbeard's ship had I believe... 60 cannons, all stolen from other ships.
That help?
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At 8/17/10 02:33 PM, GypsyMagic wrote: I am a Pirate. I live on a fucking Island for god sake.
They stole Emperial vessles, and cannons.
Blackbeard's ship had I believe... 60 cannons, all stolen from other ships.
That help?
Did it look anything like this one?
Thats a lot of gunpowder
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This is a real pirate *sniff* he doesnt even have a parrot for fucks sake
At 8/17/10 02:35 PM, CharltonChinchilla wrote: This is a real pirate *sniff* he doesnt even have a parrot for fucks sake
Who cares about the parrot when you have a machine gun and hundreds, if not a thousand rounds of ammunition?
It's simple actually. Where we got the parts for them, I mean. We simply used wood. Yes, wood. Noah did the same thing, why can't we?
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Yeah, basically all the pirates of the 17th and 18th centuries were navy officers or professional bounty hunters who decided to go rogue, or got permission from the crown to raid other countries' ships. Then they went off on their merry way.
Pirates (or privateers, if they operated under royal permission) generally sailed sloops or schooners, though if they took frigates or galleons in the course of their travels, many captains were known to add them to their fleets. Blackbeard's flagship, the Queen Anne's Revenge, was a 300-ton vessel boasting over 40 cannon. Some pirates maintained small flotillas of over a thousand men.
As for supplies... they just stopped in whichever settlements they didn't happen to be at war with. Tortuga being a big one. Some of the more famous pirates also maintained private islands in the Bahamas or Lesser Antilles, most notably Barbados and Dominica.
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At 8/17/10 02:37 PM, Chymeraxe wrote:At 8/17/10 02:35 PM, CharltonChinchilla wrote: This is a real pirate *sniff* he doesnt even have a parrot for fucks sakeWho cares about the parrot when you have a machine gun and hundreds, if not a thousand rounds of ammunition?
You think that smelly black man with a shitty gun looks cooler than blackbeard?
At 8/17/10 02:40 PM, RWT wrote: Lots of stuff.
Thank you! <3 I've learnt something today!
and im guessing the characters in Zack and Wiki aren't real pirates either...?
They should be...
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At 8/17/10 02:32 PM, Jacco wrote: Ninja's are way better
i agree, pirates are nothing compared to pirates
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Ye Olde Pirates: White, British, owned ships
Modern Pirates: Black, Somalian, steal ships
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A fair few were 'privateers' who were given right of passage by the navy in return for running freight. Some went on from this to become fully-fledged ya-harr pirates, attacking merchants for loot.
Then you got the likes of Stede Bonnett, who just went and bought a ship and hired a crew before going mental on the coast of America.
Some people feel content to pour syrup on shit and call it pancakes their whole lives.
Random fact: The last "official" Privateer ship was an U-boat that got sinked during world war 2. Forget it's name, but I know it was of german origin. Is main target were cargo boat going to the USA.
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