Who was the cruelest pirate?

Edward Low started his piratical career in 1721 in the Caribbean. Over the next few years, Low blazed a path of destruction, becoming, according to one contemporary account, “the most noted pirate in America” – and certainly the most vicious. He seemed to relish torturing and killing his victims.
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Who was the most feared pirate hunter?

Woodes Rogers made it his life's work, and risked his families fortune, to rid the world of pirates. Wikimedia CommonsWoodes Rogers, on the right, as governor of The Bahamas. Woodes Rogers lived through enough adventures in one lifetime to fill up 10 lifetimes of ordinary people.
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Who is the No 1 pirate in the world?

1. Henry Morgan. Despite being one of the best-known pirates in the history of pirates, Captain Morgan's status as a pirate is still unknown. Different accounts refer to him as a pirate, privateer or buccaneer at different places.
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Who was the last pirate alive?

Bartholomew Roberts

He was the last great pirate of the golden age who plundered more than 400 ships.
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Was Davy Jones real?

David Jones, a real pirate, although not a very well-known one, living on the Indian Ocean in the 1630s. Duffer Jones, a notoriously myopic sailor who often found himself overboard. A British pub owner who supposedly threw drunken sailors into his ale locker and then gave them to be drafted on any ship.
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Who was the most feared female pirate?

Anne Bonny – At the top of the list is Anne Bonny, probably the most famous female pirate to sail during the Golden Age. She was a member of Calico Jack's crew, along with Mary Read, but it is said that the two women fought with more skill than any man on board the ship.
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Is Jack Sparrow a real pirate?

Pirates of the Caribbean's Jack Sparrow may be the worst pirate you've ever heard of, but he is based on the real legendary pirate John Ward. Pirates of the Caribbean's Jack Sparrow may be the worst pirate you've ever heard of, but he is based on the real Barbary pirate John Ward.
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What's a lady pirate called?

Many disguised themselves as men to be able to fit into pirate crews undetected. Female pirates were a minority – and openingly female pirates – even rarer. In today's popular culture you can find references to girl pirates, women pirates, she-pirates and so on.
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Are there still pirates?

Today, the pirates can be seen very often in the South and Southeast Asia, the South America and South of Red Sea. They are still masked, dressed differently than the usual people and often very aggressive. There are two types of modern pirates' existence: small-time pirates and organizations of pirates.
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Is the Black Pearl Real?

The Black Pearl (formerly known as the Wicked Wench) is a fictional ship in the Pirates of the Caribbean film series. In the screenplay, the Black Pearl is easily recognized by her distinctive black hull and sails.
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Was there any good pirates?

Famous pirates from this period include Henry Morgan, William 'Captain' Kidd, 'Calico' Jack Rackham, Bartholomew Roberts and the fearsome Blackbeard (Edward Teach). Though this Golden Age came to an end in the 18th century, piracy still exists today in some parts of the world, especially the South China Seas.
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Who is the most famous pirate in real life?

Avast! Top 10 Real-life Pirates
  • Sir Francis Drake 1540-1596.
  • Sir Henry Morgan 1635 - 1688.
  • Edward Teach -1718 (Blackbeard)
  • William Kidd -1701.
  • Grace O'Malley 1530-1603.
  • Anne Bonny 1700-
  • Hayreddin Barbarossa -1546.
  • Bartholomew Roberts 1682-1722 (Black Bart)
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Do pirates still exist in 2021?

Gulf of Guinea remains world's piracy hotspot in 2021, according to IMB's latest figures. The Gulf of Guinea accounted for nearly half (43%) of all reported piracy incidents in the first three months of 2021, according to the latest figures from the ICC International Maritime Bureau (IMB).
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Did female pirates fight with their breasts out?

That book gave the women and many other pirates an almost mythical status and gave a time-stamped account of their history on the high seas. At the moment their opponent lay dying, they would expose their breasts to show them they had been vanquished by a woman.
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Who was the most successful pirate?

Bartholomew Roberts (Welsh, 1682 - 1722)

Welsh pirate, Bartholomew "Black Bart" Roberts was probably last great pirate captain of Golden Age of Pirates but also the most successful one. This cold-blooded pirate was best known for plundering more than 400 ships which is absolute record amongst pirates.
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Is Jack Sparrow the best pirate?

Captain Jack Sparrow is the hilarious face of Disney's Pirates of the Caribbean franchise. But while he brags a lot, he's not the best pirate at sea. You don't need to be a huge Disney fan to appreciate the Pirates of the Caribbean series.
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What did pirates smell like?

It smells like musty chlorinated water and synthetic fog (like that from a fog machine).
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What are pirates scared of?

Sailors and pirates tended to be very superstitious - that is, they had a fear of the unknown and used it to explain misfortune (bad things that happened). Living and working on a ship in the middle of the seven seas was a very dangerous job.
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Was Long John Silver a real pirate?

Was Long John Silver Real? Long John Silver was a fictional character in Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island, but, according to some researchers, Stevenson modeled his famous pirate after people he knew. Stevenson once stated that his pirate character was loosely based on his friend, William Henley.
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Was the Flying Dutchman a real ship?

The Flying Dutchman (Dutch: De Vliegende Hollander) is a legendary ghost ship which was said to never be able to make port, doomed to sail the oceans forever. The myth is likely to have originated from the 17th-century Golden Age of the Dutch East India Company (VOC) and Dutch maritime power.
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Was the Queen Anne's Revenge a real ship?

Queen Anne's Revenge was actually a former French ship, Le Concorde, captured by Blackbeard in 1717. He forced Le Concorde's surgeon to join the pirate crew, and a surgeon at that time likely would have had apothecary weights.
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Was barbossa a real pirate?

Captain Barbossa

A fictional pirate featuring prominently in all four of the Pirates of the Caribbean films, Barbossa was reportedly inspired by Hayreddin Barbarossa, an Ottoman naval captain operating in the 1500s.
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Are pirates evil?

A pirate is a robber who travels by water. Though most pirates targeted ships, some also launched attacks on coastal towns. We often think of pirates as swashbuckling and daring or evil and brutish, but in actual fact most of them were ordinary people who had been forced to turn to criminal activity to make ends meet.
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