r/pirates

Good evening Fellow Pirates,

I think this would be one of the right subreddits to promote my new Silly Looney Pirate Club. Within the club, members are encouraged to share their silly acts and promote pirate ideals. Whether you lean more silly or more pirate does not matter as long as you are silly and a pirate. DM me if you would like the membership form. I believe we can implement a pirate majority in the US and eventually the world.

Regards,

Captain Goose

I was watching one of Blumineck's shorts and came across this archery video related to pirates and makes the claim that contemporary reports state that Sir Francis Drake (English privateer or bloodthirsty pirate if you're Spanish) used archers to shoot at enemy captains using their "superior accuracy" to force a surrender. I tried tracking down these contemporary reports and I'm not able to find any. Funnily enough, the Google AI even uses that video as a source when I was looking for the original reports.

I'm also very doubtful of his claim that archers had "superior accuracy" compared to early firearms. Sources around the time come to conclusion that early firearms are much more accurate than traditional bows. Also, wouldn't guns do more or less the same thing more effectively (loud boom noises)?

Does anyone know about the reports that Blumineck is referring to?

This is the second mermaid or ocean pirate themed hat I've made. I found the pin at the MD garb sale last year and had to have it for a hat. Also the "white" braid trim has iridescent threads in it and it shimmers.

Also distressed my clothing items today too. All I got left is to finish making the cross body belt that will also work as a holster the sword.
Also making a rat companion to sit on my shoulder too.
Maybe I’ll make some grenados too for the belt 🤷‍♂️

I’ll leave you with a clearly high quality joke….

Why did the emo want to become a pirate? Because they cutless

I would love your quick help if you are at all into pirates, dark humor, Halloween, Goth (or fringe goth), graphic Tees, etc. I'm currently building a new brand around a style im thinking of as "Modern Rogue" (aka modern pirates 😂) and Im trying to develop the look of it. So I have a fast/easy survey if you'd like help me decide on a piratey logo.

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Please take about five minutes to complete a fun, short preference test. Your honest choices will help me a lot. Click the link below to share your thoughts. Thank you so much for your valuable time!

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I’m a huge fan of the Age of Sail. I have been trying to find activities that bring me a little closer to those times.

One thing I have been making traditional sailor’s ditty bags. They were made by sailors to hold sailmaking tools. I try to use all natural materials. Mostly cotton and hemp. The twine is waxed polyester.

This is my first pirate themed one. Hope you enjoy.

Look at this cool coat my wife made! She also made the shirt and the pants.

Any ideas?

I make bespoke designs on decks and plaques. Open for commissions ✨️

This is a more recent drawing of mine featuring the famed "Gentleman pirate" Stede Bonnet. After pirating in the Caribbean and American coast, Bonnet decided to careen his sloop Royal James at the mouth of the Cape Fear River in Carolina. He was ambushed by two pirate-hunting sloops under Colonel William Rhett of South Carolina. Bonnet tried to run but was forced to fight. In the roughly 5-hour fight, both sloops ran around, and Rhett's sloop was left exposed to pirate fire at an especially vulnerable angle, allowing the pirates to shoot on her deck and cause casualties of about 10-12 men dead, about the same number wounded. The pirates lost most likely less than 10 men.

While the pirates were also stuck and would indeed soon lose the fight, as Rhett's sloop was sooner clear than Bonnet's, the pirates had a moment of optimism and bravado in the battle. This is what I decided to depict here. The pirates cheered by hoisting their hats and mockingly gesturing to the crew of the Henry, the sloop of Rhett. The Pirates even made a so-called wiff or "waft" to their red or "bloody" flag of defiance. This maritime term means a knot made in a flag and then hoisted, which was a signal for a pilot to come aboard a ship. Now this signal was part of the pirates' mockery, as Rhett could not board them.

The Battle is best described by a quote from his trial from Rhett's side:

>... the next Morning, Saturday the 27th of September, they [the pirates] got under Sail, and came down the River; and depending on their Sloops sailing, designed only a Running-Fight [with Rhett's sloops]. But our Sloops stood for him, and got on his each Quarter, with design to board the Pirate: which he finding, edged in towards the Shore; and being warmly engaged, their Sloop ran a-ground. Our Sloops being in the same shoal Water, were a-ground as soon as the Pirate; the Henry, in which Col. Rhett was, grounded within Pistol-shot of the Pirate, and on his Bow; the other Sloop grounded right a-head of him, and almost out of Gun-shot, which made him of little Service to the Colonel while they lay a-ground. At this time the Pirates had a considerable Advantage; for their Sloop, after she was a-ground, listed from Colonel Rhett's, by which means they were all covered; and the Colonel's Sloop listing the fame way, his Men were much expos'd. Not-withstanding which, they kept a brisk Fire the whole time they thus lay a-ground, which was near five Hours. The Pirates made a Wiff in their bloody Flag, and beckon'd with their Hats in derision to our People to come on board them; which they only answered with chearful Huzza's, and told them it would soon be their Turn. And which was ſo in a little time...

You can find some of the old pirate trial documents here, Bonnet's as well: https://waynesavage.com/pirate-trial-documents/

In the end, Bonnet was captured and later executed in Charleston after a short escape attempt, so ultimately, this was a bittersweet scene for the pirates.

I wanted to depict that despite being memed about due to popular depictions in video games, TV shows, and media, Stede Bonnet may not have been as clumsy and foolish as often depicted. His resistance to the authorities was more competent than some others, and he was possibly less delusional than often depicted. He was not the sole "gentleman" among pirate captains at the time, and piracy's legal counterpart, privateering, had often worked as a somewhat common enterprise for Caribbean gentlemen in the years before. Bonnet's case received a lot of attention at the time when the colonies drew a hard line against pirates, something they had recently supported via dubious privateering and outright corruption, and thus he was made a disgraced example.

That said, it is true that for a pirate captain, Major Bonnet, being a gentleman planter from Barbados and a former Militia major, lacked nautical experience and probably some leadership skills, but not necessarily bravery or common sense. It is also not impossible that Bonnet has some minor political motivations in the form of Jacobitism, support for the Deposed English King James Edward Stuart, as also apparent in his ship's name, but that is a discussion for another time. For the most part, it appears Bonnet went pirating for the experience and money, but his motivations for these remain unclear.