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  2. Whydah Gally - Wikipedia

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    Whydah Gally[1] / ˈhwɪdə ˈɡæli, ˈhwɪdˌɔː / (commonly known simply as the Whydah) was a fully rigged ship that was originally built as a passenger, cargo, and slave ship. On the return leg of her maiden voyage of the triangle trade, Whydah Gally was captured by the pirate Captain Samuel "Black Sam" Bellamy, beginning a new role in the ...

  3. Golden Age of Piracy - Wikipedia

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    Golden Age of Piracy. 1650s–1730s. A 1920 painting of Blackbeard 's final battle against Robert Maynard in 1718. Location. North Atlantic. Indian Ocean. Pacific Ocean. The Golden Age of Piracy is a common designation for the period between the 1650s and the 1730s, when maritime piracy was a significant factor in the histories of the North ...

  4. Piracy in the Atlantic World - Wikipedia

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    As a result, a pirate ship still had the usual terminology found on merchant ships, but the role each ranking sailor would play on the pirate ship was not the norm. [37]: 90, 91 A pirate ship still had a Captain of the vessel. As the economist Peter Leeson argues, pirate captains were democratically elected by the entire crew.

  5. Piracy in the Caribbean - Wikipedia

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    Age of Pirates: Caribbean Tales and Age of Pirates 2: City of Abandoned Ships, both Age of Pirates games are for PC. Both games are no longer supported by their developers, support and fixes for these games can be found at piratesahoy.net and are created by experienced mod developers. Tropico 2, a video game. The player is a pirate king and ...

  6. Battle of Cape Lopez - Wikipedia

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    3 killed. 272 captured. 1 frigate captured. The Battle of Cape Lopez was fought in early 1722 during the Golden Age of Piracy. A Royal Navy ship of the line under the command of Captain Chaloner Ogle defeated the pirate ship of Bartholomew Roberts off the coast of Gabon, West Africa.

  7. Divers Accidentally Discovered an 18th-Century Pirate Ship ...

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    August 9, 2024 at 10:00 AM. Divers Discover Sunken 18th-Century Pirate Shipmiljko - Getty Images. In the deep waters between Morocco and Spain, wreck-divers discovered a pirate ship that may have ...

  8. Henry Every - Wikipedia

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    Henry Every. Henry Every, also known as Henry Avery (20 August 1659 – Disappeared: June 1696), sometimes erroneously given as Jack Avery or John Avery, [a] was an English pirate who operated in the Atlantic and Indian oceans in the mid-1690s. He probably used several aliases throughout his career, including Benjamin Bridgeman, and was known ...

  9. Joseph Bannister - Wikipedia

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    Joseph Bannister. HMS Drake, the ship which captured Bannister. Joseph Bannister (died 1687, first name occasionally given as George) was an English pirate who operated in the Caribbean during the Golden Age of Piracy. He is best known for surviving an attack from two Royal Navy warships.