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Walking the plank was a method of execution practiced on special occasion by pirates, mutineers, and other rogue seafarers. For the amusement of the perpetrators and the psychological torture of the victims, captives were bound so they could not swim or tread water and forced to walk off a wooden plank or beam extended over the side of a ship.
Howard Pyle's illustration of pirate walking the plank, a form of murder or torture that was practiced by pirates and other rogue seafarers.It involved the victim being forced to walk off the end of a wooden plank or beam extended over the side of a ship, thereby falling into the water to drown, sometimes with bound hands or weighed down, often into the vicinity of sharks (which would often ...
John Derdrake card from the 1948 Leaf Pirate trading card set. John Derdrake, known as “Jack of the Baltic,” was a legendary Danish pirate that might have been active in the 1700s. His story, if true, makes him one of the few pirates known to force his victims to walk the plank.
Stede Bonnet (c. 1688 – 10 December 1718) [a] was an English pirate who was known as the Gentleman Pirate [1] because he was a moderately wealthy landowner before turning to a life of crime. Bonnet was born into a wealthy English family on the island of Barbados , and inherited the family estate after his father's death in 1694.
Walking the Plank by Howard Pyle. Three significant engagements occurred between the British and the pirates in 1822 and 1823. In March, boat crews from USS Enterprise captured two launches and four boats in a creek near Cape Antonio and on March 6, they seized eight more craft and over 150 pirates.
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The degradation of two powerful, independent Muslim women — one historical, one fictional — echoes 500 years later in the name of our state.
Walking the plank was seldom used, as it was seen as an elaborate, but impractical and unnecessary display of theatrics. A General History of the Robberies and Murders of the Most Notorious Pyrates , written by Captain Charles Johnson in 1724, contains many accounts which influenced the modern-day perceptions of pirates, and the act of walking ...