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The typical pirate crew was an unorthodox mixture of former sailors, escaped convicts, disillusioned men, and possibly escapee or former slaves, among others, looking for wealth at any cost; once aboard a seafaring vessel, the group would draw-up their own ship- and crew-specific code (or articles), which listed and described the crew's ...
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Although the Oxford English Dictionary says the expression "shiver my timbers" probably first appeared in a published work by Frederick Marryat called Jacob Faithful (1835), [1] the phrase actually appeared in print as early as 1795, in a serial publication called "Tomahawk, or Censor General", [2] which gives an "extract of a new MS tragedy called 'Opposition'."
Her crew failed to refloat the vessel, but managed to salvage her guns, papers, and other valuables. Fearing that she would be salvaged by pirates, they set fire to her and she sank. Though it was previously thought that the location of the wreck was known, a 1996 expedition proved this false, and the location of the Alligator remains unknown ...
Following the first Anglo-Spanish War, early in the 17th century, pirates established a pirate haven at Mehdya, a location with the advantage of being near Spain and major trade routes. The Moroccan sultanate tolerated these pirates due to the wealth they brought to the country. [ 22 ]
These pirate groups were organized similarly to other "escape societies" throughout history, and maintained a redistributive system to reward looting; the pirates directly responsible for looting or pillaging got their cut first, and the rest was allocated to the rest of the pirate community. [69]
Pirate democracy was flexible but unable to deal with long-term dissent from the crew. [7] One description of the ritual of the pirate's code was in Alexandre Exquemelin's Buccaneers of America, published in 1678. Pirates called a first council (which included all crew members) to decide where to get provisions. Then they raided for supplies.
Following its departure on 10 September, the crew of the Buck (a sloop-of-war taken to New Providence by Rogers, [73] now with reformed pirates among its crew) turned pirate. [74] The Buck 's new pirate crew included reformed pirates Thomas Anstis and Howell Davis , [ 75 ] as well as a man who had come from England aboard the Buck , Walter ...