Pauline's Pirates & Privateers

My mother's mother, half French, half Irish and all of both, used to repeat the time worn phrase "Man may work from sun to sun but...

Congressional Ship Philadelphia was one of the first warships constructed by the newly self-proclaimed United States as she headed into th...

River piracy is as old as humans and boats. One has to imagine that there were rovers and raiders along the Tigris and the Nile before laws...

One cannot make any serious mistake in the selection of one's provisions, but to take the wrong man with one on a voyage that involves ...

A petrel is a fairly common bird to sailors. To landsmen, particularly those who live in the far Northern Hemisphere and inland, it may not...

The last thing I need to tell you, Brethren, is that our freebooting ancestors didn't much cotton to rules. Most of them came to the rov...

The history of ships and shipping, and therefor pirates and privateering, began with our friends the Sea Peoples . Known now as the Phoenic...