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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.
Derdrake was known to drown all his captives, reputedly making them walk the plank. A captured captain escaped and reported Derdrake to the Governor of St. Petersburg, a General Shevelling. One of Derdrake's sailors went ashore and reported that Derdrake had killed the General's sister, who had been captured from a passing ship.
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 ...
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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
Doing the plank is simple—you don't need any equipment, and once you're in position, you won't move—but you won't get the most out of the exercise unless you're a stickler for proper ...
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