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OF THE PLUNDERING PIRATES
THE PLUNDERING PIRATE STORY
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STORY OF THE REAL PLUNDERING PIRATES
DIRECTORY OF THE PIRATE STORY - HOME
Coining Rogue Sea Thieves as Pirates
Coining Rogue Sea Thieves as Pirates
- Profiteering & Buccaneering to Pirating
- Ushering in the Golden Age of Piracy
- Pirate Fact Check Matey
- Lawless Bandits Follow the Pirate Code
- Pirate Democracy & Equality for All
- Rise of a Pirate Archetype
- Glorification & Glitzy Glamorization
- The Allure of Pirate Lore
- Literary Narrative on Pirating Narrative
- Notable Plunders of Booty and Bling
- Notable Crimes and Torture
- Notorious Captures and Hangings
- Bits and Bobs of Notable Notes miscellaneous notes of the pirate life
THE PIRATE NOTABLES
NOTORIOUS NOTABLE PIRATES
Notable BOOTY | TORTURE | HANGINGS
NOTABLE - Bits & Bobs - NOTES
NOTABLE CAPTURES AND HANGINGS
Many Pirates were arrested and sent to Newgate Prison: It was located next to the Old Bailey law courts until its demolition in 1904. It replaced Tyburn as the site of the capital’s gallows in 1783 and public executions drew large crowds until the practice was stopped in 1868, after which the condemned were hanged inside Newgate’s forbidding walls and buried under flagstones. 1,169 prisoners were hanged there.
Execution Dock was a place in the River Thames near the shoreline at Wapping, London, that was used for more than 400 years to execute pirates, smugglers and mutineers who had been sentenced to death by Admiralty courts. The "dock" consisted of a scaffold for hanging. Its last executions were in 1830.
On their way from the prisons to the dock, the convicted pirates were given their last quart of ale at one pub – The Turks Head Inn. This was not mercy, but it is possible that it was a trick to persuade them to confess to their crimes to their accompanying chaplain. Captain William Kidd, executed in 1701, reportedly imbibed rum during the entire procession. While Captain Kidd was given a flask before leaving confinement, others received drinks along the way.
Legends say that a pirate’s level of cruelty would often mean the worst offenders hanging would be done with a shortened rope. This was a slow death from strangulation on the scaffold because the drop was insufficient to break the neck. It was called the Marshal's Dance because their limbs would seem to 'dance' from slow asphyxiation. There’s no evidence of a shorter rope being used for pirates, or of the gruesome ‘dance’ being anything but a side effect of poor technology.
The bodies of pirates at Execution Dock were not immediately cut down following death. The custom was to leave corpses hanging until at least three tides had washed over their heads. This practice stopped at the end of the 18th century. In the cases of the most notorious offenders, their bodies would be tarred and hung in chains at either Cuckold's Point or Blackwall Point, on the River Thames, as a warning to all seafarers of the fate awaiting those who turned to piracy.
Capital punishment was designed not only to punish the convict, but to scare everyone else off of committing similar crimes. After a hanging, the bodies were enclosed in iron cages (gibbet) (for which they were measured before their execution) and left to swing in the air until the flesh rotted off them. This process could take as long as two years. The bodies of captains such as William Kidd, Charles Vane, William Fly, and Jack Rackham ("Calico Jack") were all treated this way.
Between 1735 and 1830 alone, the Execution Dock saw at least 78 hangings.
NOTABLE DEATHS
The Devil’s Death
Blackbeard was hunted down by Lieutenant Robert Maynard at Ocracoke Inlet off the coast of North Carolina on November 22, 1718 and killed. His body was riddled with cuts and gunshot wounds, while his head was cut off and hung from Maynard’s sloop.
Bartholomew Roberts was cornered in 1722 by Captain Chaloner Ogle of HMS Swallow at Cape Lopez. A grapeshot tore out his throat and his body was quickly buried at sea by his crew, shortly before their capture. Roberts' death shocked the pirate world, as many civilians had thought him invincible and considered him a hero.
Calico Jack Rackham - pirate hunter Jonathan Barnet and former pirate Jean Bonadvis captured Rackham when he was drunk in Jamaica. His execution was in Port Royal on November 18, 1720 and his body gibbeted on display on a very small islet at a main entrance to Port Royal now known as Rackham's Cay.
George Davis and William Watts, convicted for piracy for the Cyprus mutiny, were the final hangings at Execution Dock on December 16, 1830.
Stede Bonnet - more commonly referred to as the “Gentleman Pirate,” was defeated in reportedly one of the largest and bloodiest of the pirate conflicts in the colony’s waters. Bonnet’s trial lasted longer than his crew’s and he tried to take advantage of his upper-class background in appealing to the governor for mercy and place blame for everything on Blackbeard. Bonnet was sent to the gallows on Dec. 10, 1718 in Charleston, South Carolina, less than two years after he bought a ship and abandoned his family in Barbados to follow Blackbeard.
Charles Vane - a brazen yet skilled pirate and one of the few who refused to accept the King’s pardon. However, his luck started to run out after he was voted out of command by his crew, in favour of ‘Calico’ Jack Rackham. Following this incident, Vane’s ship was wrecked in a storm and he was marooned on an uninhabited island. Upon being rescued, he was identified by the captain of a passing ship and imprisoned. Vane stood trial in Jamaica and was hanged on March 29, 1721, in Port Royal.
First Hanging - in 1241, an English pirate named William Maurice was the first person known to have been hanged, drawn, and quartered, indicating the severity with which then-King Henry III viewed the crime of piracy.
First Trial Under the Admiralty Law - John Quelch, who had been flying a flag called the “Old Roger” off the coast of Brazil. “Old Roger” was the nickname for the devil. John was the first person to be tried for piracy outside England under Admiralty Law and thus without a jury. He was subsequently hanged.
Read how 26 Pirates were hanged in Newport
Many Pirates were arrested and sent to Newgate Prison: It was located next to the Old Bailey law courts until its demolition in 1904. It replaced Tyburn as the site of the capital’s gallows in 1783 and public executions drew large crowds until the practice was stopped in 1868, after which the condemned were hanged inside Newgate’s forbidding walls and buried under flagstones. 1,169 prisoners were hanged there.
Execution Dock was a place in the River Thames near the shoreline at Wapping, London, that was used for more than 400 years to execute pirates, smugglers and mutineers who had been sentenced to death by Admiralty courts. The "dock" consisted of a scaffold for hanging. Its last executions were in 1830.
On their way from the prisons to the dock, the convicted pirates were given their last quart of ale at one pub – The Turks Head Inn. This was not mercy, but it is possible that it was a trick to persuade them to confess to their crimes to their accompanying chaplain. Captain William Kidd, executed in 1701, reportedly imbibed rum during the entire procession. While Captain Kidd was given a flask before leaving confinement, others received drinks along the way.
Legends say that a pirate’s level of cruelty would often mean the worst offenders hanging would be done with a shortened rope. This was a slow death from strangulation on the scaffold because the drop was insufficient to break the neck. It was called the Marshal's Dance because their limbs would seem to 'dance' from slow asphyxiation. There’s no evidence of a shorter rope being used for pirates, or of the gruesome ‘dance’ being anything but a side effect of poor technology.
The bodies of pirates at Execution Dock were not immediately cut down following death. The custom was to leave corpses hanging until at least three tides had washed over their heads. This practice stopped at the end of the 18th century. In the cases of the most notorious offenders, their bodies would be tarred and hung in chains at either Cuckold's Point or Blackwall Point, on the River Thames, as a warning to all seafarers of the fate awaiting those who turned to piracy.
Capital punishment was designed not only to punish the convict, but to scare everyone else off of committing similar crimes. After a hanging, the bodies were enclosed in iron cages (gibbet) (for which they were measured before their execution) and left to swing in the air until the flesh rotted off them. This process could take as long as two years. The bodies of captains such as William Kidd, Charles Vane, William Fly, and Jack Rackham ("Calico Jack") were all treated this way.
Between 1735 and 1830 alone, the Execution Dock saw at least 78 hangings.
NOTABLE DEATHS
The Devil’s Death
Blackbeard was hunted down by Lieutenant Robert Maynard at Ocracoke Inlet off the coast of North Carolina on November 22, 1718 and killed. His body was riddled with cuts and gunshot wounds, while his head was cut off and hung from Maynard’s sloop.
Bartholomew Roberts was cornered in 1722 by Captain Chaloner Ogle of HMS Swallow at Cape Lopez. A grapeshot tore out his throat and his body was quickly buried at sea by his crew, shortly before their capture. Roberts' death shocked the pirate world, as many civilians had thought him invincible and considered him a hero.
Calico Jack Rackham - pirate hunter Jonathan Barnet and former pirate Jean Bonadvis captured Rackham when he was drunk in Jamaica. His execution was in Port Royal on November 18, 1720 and his body gibbeted on display on a very small islet at a main entrance to Port Royal now known as Rackham's Cay.
George Davis and William Watts, convicted for piracy for the Cyprus mutiny, were the final hangings at Execution Dock on December 16, 1830.
Stede Bonnet - more commonly referred to as the “Gentleman Pirate,” was defeated in reportedly one of the largest and bloodiest of the pirate conflicts in the colony’s waters. Bonnet’s trial lasted longer than his crew’s and he tried to take advantage of his upper-class background in appealing to the governor for mercy and place blame for everything on Blackbeard. Bonnet was sent to the gallows on Dec. 10, 1718 in Charleston, South Carolina, less than two years after he bought a ship and abandoned his family in Barbados to follow Blackbeard.
Charles Vane - a brazen yet skilled pirate and one of the few who refused to accept the King’s pardon. However, his luck started to run out after he was voted out of command by his crew, in favour of ‘Calico’ Jack Rackham. Following this incident, Vane’s ship was wrecked in a storm and he was marooned on an uninhabited island. Upon being rescued, he was identified by the captain of a passing ship and imprisoned. Vane stood trial in Jamaica and was hanged on March 29, 1721, in Port Royal.
First Hanging - in 1241, an English pirate named William Maurice was the first person known to have been hanged, drawn, and quartered, indicating the severity with which then-King Henry III viewed the crime of piracy.
First Trial Under the Admiralty Law - John Quelch, who had been flying a flag called the “Old Roger” off the coast of Brazil. “Old Roger” was the nickname for the devil. John was the first person to be tried for piracy outside England under Admiralty Law and thus without a jury. He was subsequently hanged.
Read how 26 Pirates were hanged in Newport
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The words were invented - just like Star Trek - to build a vocabulary for the genre. The colorful words and phrases don’t come from Pirates. The authentic words refer to ships, sails, food, gear etc. These are part of the vernacular of the time period and come from nautical sources or the military. Read more here. This dictionary is formed from real words and terms used in Golden Age and the jargon for sailors and shipbuilding. The pirate specific terms come from Johnson’s nonfiction pirate reference book written in the late 17th century. See it here.
And the dictionary contains the slang you need to Talk Like a Pirate in September.
Home ~ Pirates ~ Captains - Crew - Punishment
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The words were invented - just like Star Trek - to build a vocabulary for the genre. The colorful words and phrases don’t come from Pirates. The authentic words refer to ships, sails, food, gear etc. These are part of the vernacular of the time period and come from nautical sources or the military. Read more here. This dictionary is formed from real words and terms used in Golden Age and the jargon for sailors and shipbuilding. The pirate specific terms come from Johnson’s nonfiction pirate reference book written in the late 17th century. See it here.
And the dictionary contains the slang you need to Talk Like a Pirate in September.
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LEXICON OF PIRATES IN OBSCURITY
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View the rare, unusual and obscure words - some even obsolete - that apply to pirates, their lives and their world. Obscure words form the very foundation of this site - the dictionary is like giving you an expected wage. The lexicon is giving you a share of the best booty and the bling.
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View the rare, unusual and obscure words - some even obsolete - that apply to pirates, their lives and their world. Obscure words form the very foundation of this site - the dictionary is like giving you an expected wage. The lexicon is giving you a share of the best booty and the bling.
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