ye all better take a look at this one:o:o:o
PYRATES CREED of ETHICS
#9....
If ye introduce on board , a woman in disguise , ye shall be punished by death.
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ye all better take a look at this one:o:o:o
PYRATES CREED of ETHICS
#9....
If ye introduce on board , a woman in disguise , ye shall be punished by death.
Thats it i quit, :p
I suppose a boy dressed as a girl would be ok:angel:
this is fun, thanks for these
there were always boys on board......especially on merchantmen.
that is all I'm going to say on that point.
[QUOTE=ramblingboy42;2284088]ye all better take a look at this one:o:o:o
PYRATES CREED of ETHICS
#9....
If ye introduce on board , a woman in disguise , ye shall be punished by death.[ quote]
Back in the day, about Nelsons time , men used to smuggle women on board, in harbour. In the morning, the call was " wakey wakey, show a leg. "
If a female leg came over the hammock, the occupant was left to sleep. And there was at least one female Pirate Captain.:
Jack Rackham:
Known as Calico Jack for the bright cotton clothing he often wore , Rackham was the man voted into Vanes captaincy [ Charles Vane, voted out for not taking on a more heavily armed French warship] Rackhams place in history rests on his great romance with the lady pirate, Anne Bonney . Afloat or ashore, according to Defoe, " had nothing but Bonney on his mind."
on the other point, there were often women on ships , working as men.
there were two well known ladies in the caribbean areas mastering vessels and another well known chinese lady who led a massive flotilla of junks.....like up to a thousand ships
more to follow on these ladies later.
yes Bob , Anne Bonney was one
Ignore the trolls mate. They are like a virus. BobQuote:
Originally Posted by ramblingboy42
Todays creed is a beauty and one I'd like to see used today.
PYRATES CREED of ETHICS
#10
If ye Brother steals from another , his nose or ears are to be cut off. If he sins again , he is to be given a musket , bullets , lead and a bottle of water and marooned on an island.
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Originally Posted by ramblingboy42
I haven't read this particular book for some time, your post made me curious, and I found this.
" In 1724, barely two years after the last great mass hangings of pirates, a book entitled A general history of the robberies and Murders of the most notorious Pyrates " was published in London and soon became a bestseller. The book dealt in depth with the pirates and was obviously based on such first hand material as the transcripts of pirates' trials and interviews with pirates , their victims and their vanquishers. Four years later a second volume of the General History was published. The author of these volumes was alleged to be Captain Charles Johnson. It was later established beyond any reasonable doubt that Captain Johnson was in fact the great London novelist and journalist, Daniel Defoe. The author of such tales of seafaring life and adventure as Robinson Crusoe and Captain Singleton.
Defoe's books were intended for popular consumption. They were sensational and moralistic, and A General History is interlarded [ great word, Bob] with a number of largely fictitious anecdotes. Yet for all these faults they are classics of the literature of the sea. His volumes on pirates purvey the authentic flavour of the pirate life, present a shrewd insight into the pirate mind , and are mostly correct in their principal details as subsequent historical research has shown. "
It goes on , of course, but you get the drift. [ That's nautical talk] :p Bob