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This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 22 August 2024. List of women pirates Zheng Yi Sao (1775–1844; right) as depicted in 1836 Part of a series on Women in society Society Women's history (legal rights) Woman Animal advocacy Business Female entrepreneurs Gender representation on corporate boards of directors Diversity (politics) Diversity ...
Anne Bonny. Anne Bonny[a] (disappeared after 28 November 1720) [4] was a pirate who served under John “Calico Jack” Rackham. Amongst the few recorded female pirates in history, [5] she has become one of the most recognised pirates of the era as well as in the history of piracy in general. Much of Bonny's background is unknown.
Mary Read (died April 1721), was an English pirate.She and Anne Bonny were among the few female pirates during the "Golden Age of Piracy".. Read was likely born in England. General History says she began dressing as a boy at a young age, at first at her mother's urging in order to receive inheritance money and then as a teenager in order to join the British milit
Zheng Yi Sao (born Shi Yang; c. 1775–1844), also known as Shi Xianggu, Shek Yeung and Ching Shih, was a Chinese pirate leader active in the South China Sea from 1801 [1] to 1810. [2] Born as Shi Yang in 1775 to humble origins, she married a pirate named Zheng Yi at age 26 in 1801. She was named Zheng Yi Sao ("wife of Zheng Yi") by the people ...
Years active. 1781–1782. Base of operations. New Hampshire. Rachel Wall (c. 1760 – October 8, 1789) was an American female pirate, and the last woman to be hanged in Massachusetts. She may also have been the first American-born woman to become a pirate.
Mary Critchett. Mary Critchett (died 1729, first name also Maria, last name also Crichett or Crickett) was an English pirate and convict. She is best known for being one of only four confirmed female pirates from the Golden Age of Piracy, [ 1] and the only one executed.
Jacquotte Delahaye (fl. 1656) was a purported pirate of legend in the Caribbean Sea. She has been depicted as operating alongside Anne Dieu-le-Veut as one of very few 17th-century female pirates. There is no evidence from period sources that Delahaye was a real person. Stories of her exploits are attributed to oral storytelling and Leon Treich ...
Princess Sela (active c. 400–420 A.D.) was a Norwegian pirate and one of the first known female pirates. Sela was a princess of Norway and the sister of the King Koller of Norway. The Danish historian Saxo Grammaticus described Sela as a "skilled warrior and experienced in rowing." [1]