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  2. Quartermaster - Wikipedia

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    Pirates during the Golden Age of Piracy elevated the rank of quartermaster to much higher powers and responsibilities than it had aboard non-pirate merchant or naval vessels. On pirate ships, the quartermaster was often granted a veto power by a pirate ship's "Articles of Agreement" , in order to create an officer who could counterbalance the ...

  3. List of pirates - Wikipedia

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    A pirate and slave trader active in the Caribbean and the Red Sea in the late 1690s. Robert Glover: d. 1698 1693–1698 Ireland / Colonial America An Irish-American pirate active in the Red Sea area in the late 1690s. Christopher Goffe? 1683–1691 Colonial America A pirate and privateer active in the Red Sea and the Caribbean. He was ...

  4. Seafarer's professions and ranks - Wikipedia

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    Relative ranks in the Royal Navy, c. 1810. Warrant officers are underlined in the chart. [8] The Captain was a commissioned officer naval officer in command of a ship and was addressed by naval custom as "captain" while aboard in command, regardless of the officer's actual rank.

  5. Royal Navy ranks, rates, and uniforms of the 18th and 19th ...

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    Naval ranks and positions of the 18th and 19th-century Royal Navy were an intermixed assortment of formal rank titles, positional titles, as well as informal titles used onboard oceangoing ships. Uniforms played a major role in shipboard hierarchy since those positions allocated a formal uniform by navy regulations were generally considered of ...

  6. List of United States Navy ratings - Wikipedia

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    For example, if a sailor has the pay-grade of E-5 (rank of petty officer second class) and the rating of boatswain's mate, then combining the two—boatswain's mate second class (BM2)—defines both rank and rating in formal address or epistolary salutation. Thus, boatswain's mate second class (BM2) would be that sailor's rate.

  7. Governance in 18th-century piracy - Wikipedia

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    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.

  8. Skull and crossbones (military) - Wikipedia

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    The Jolly Roger is the name given to any of various flags flown to identify a ship's crew as pirates. Since the decline of piracy, various military units have used the Jolly Roger, usually in skull-and-crossbones design, as a unit identification insignia or a victory flag to ascribe to themselves the proverbial ferocity and toughness of pirates.

  9. List of titles - Wikipedia

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    Tribal titles give the title-holder authority over a bloodline rather than a physical geography. Institutional titles are mostly confined to a specific campus, corporation, temple, or other private or semi-public institution. Divisional is applied to most military & police ranks, with the number of people under that rank's command listed when ...