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2. Walking the plank - Wikipedia

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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.

3. Carvel (boat building) - Wikipedia

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   A carvel boat has a smoother surface which gives the impression that it is more hydrodynamically efficient since the exposed edges of the clinker planking appear to disturb the streamline and cause drag. A clinker certainly has a slightly larger wetted area, but a carvel hull is not necessarily more efficient: for given hull strength, the ...

4. Portal:Piracy/Selected picture - Wikipedia

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   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 ...

5. Talk:Walking the plank - Wikipedia

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   From the lede: "Although forcing captives to walk the plank is a motif of pirates in popular culture in the 19th through 21st centuries, few instances are documented, except in the early days of the U.S. Navy where walking the plank was used to execute sailors convicted of serious crimes like mutiny or murder so the frequency of the practice is ...

6. Walk the Plank - Wikipedia

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   Walk the Plank may refer to: Walking the plank, a method of execution practiced by rogue seafarers; Walk the Plank, a South African television game show; Walk the Plank (theatre company), an English pyrotechnics and theatre company; Walk the Plank, a card game by Green Ronin Publishing

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