The difference between the privateer and the pirate was sometimes very vague. And the English have the whole business of Sir Francis Drake affecting the cultural view. Drake, and Morgan a century later, was by some standards a pirate. But he was also the Queen's man, doing the Mission Impossible of the 16th Century. And one of the classic pirate periods in centred on the Spanish Main, bracketed by Drake and Morgan, with "no peace beyond the line". The Sea Hawk and Captain Blood pretty neatly encompass that period. There's a continuing permitted piracy in the use of prize money by the navy, and some of the most notorious pirates are in the transitional period of the early Eighteenth Century--"Blackbeard", Kidd, "Calico Jack" Rachgam, Anne Bonney and Mary Read. They're still the romantic pitates wo, we expect, would be leaping from the rigging singing of how find a thing it is to be a Pirate King. But there's other pirates all over the world, and when they're not people like us things are different. North Africa, Malaya and Indoneaia, off China, places where there still are pirates and the romance, such as it was, attached to the Navy. And there are stories. It is ssid that, in the last years of the Soviet Union, an Ivan Rogov assault ship, a floating dock and barracks for amphibious warship, was travelling from European waters to the Far East. The silhoutte is not very military: think of something more like a RO/RO ferry or a container-ship. As always, it is not good for a pirate's career to board a warship.
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Date: 2007-05-27 05:23 pm (UTC)The Sea Hawk and Captain Blood pretty neatly encompass that period.
There's a continuing permitted piracy in the use of prize money by the navy, and some of the most notorious pirates are in the transitional period of the early Eighteenth Century--"Blackbeard", Kidd, "Calico Jack" Rachgam, Anne Bonney and Mary Read. They're still the romantic pitates wo, we expect, would be leaping from the rigging singing of how find a thing it is to be a Pirate King.
But there's other pirates all over the world, and when they're not people like us things are different. North Africa, Malaya and Indoneaia, off China, places where there still are pirates and the romance, such as it was, attached to the Navy.
And there are stories. It is ssid that, in the last years of the Soviet Union, an Ivan Rogov assault ship, a floating dock and barracks for amphibious warship, was travelling from European waters to the Far East. The silhoutte is not very military: think of something more like a RO/RO ferry or a container-ship. As always, it is not good for a pirate's career to board a warship.