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<p><b>Pirate articles</b>, or <b>articles of agreement</b><sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>a<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> were a <a href="Code_of_conduct" title="Code of conduct">code of conduct</a> for governing ships of <a href="Pirate" class="mw-redirect" title="Pirate">pirates</a>, notably between the <a href="17th_century" title="17th century">17th</a> and <a href="18th_century" title="18th century">18th centuries</a>, during the so-called "<a href="Golden_Age_of_Piracy" title="Golden Age of Piracy">Golden Age of Piracy</a>". The typical pirate crew was an unorthodox mixture of former <a href="Sailor" title="Sailor">sailors</a>, <a href="Convict" title="Convict">escaped convicts</a>, disillusioned men, and possibly escapee or former <a href="Slavery" title="Slavery">slaves</a>, 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 <i>articles</i>), which listed and described the crew's policies surrounding pirate behavior (such as drunkenness, fighting, and interaction with females) and the associated disciplinary action, should a code be violated. Failing to honor the Articles could get a pirate <a href="Marooning" title="Marooning">marooned</a>, whipped, beaten, or even executed (such as one article described, for merely allowing a female aboard their ship). Primarily, these articles were designed to keep order aboard the ship, avoid dissension or <a href="Mutiny" title="Mutiny">mutinies</a>, and ensure the crews' loyalty, all of which was crucial to the group's mutual survival.

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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="History">History</h2></div>

<p>While legend has it that the first set of the pirate codes were written by the Portuguese buccaneer <a href="Bartolomeu_Portugu%C3%AAs" title="Bartolomeu Português">Bartolomeu Português</a> sometime in the early 1660s,<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> the first formal recorded set belonged to <a href="George_Cusack" title="George Cusack">George Cusack</a> who was active from 1668 to 1675.<sup id="cite_ref-Fox_Dissertation_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Fox_Dissertation-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> These early buccaneer articles were based on earlier <a href="Maritime_law" title="Maritime law">maritime law</a> and privateer codes such as the 12th century <a href="Rolls_of_Ol%C3%A9ron" title="Rolls of Oléron">Rolls of Oléron</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Berger_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Berger-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> They were later used by buccaneers and pirates such as <a href="John_Phillips_(pirate)" title="John Phillips (pirate)">John Phillips</a>, <a href="Edward_Low" title="Edward Low">Edward Low</a> and <a href="Bartholomew_Roberts" title="Bartholomew Roberts">Bartholomew Roberts</a>.

<a href="Buccaneer" title="Buccaneer">Buccaneers</a> operated under a <a href="Ship's_articles" title="Ship's articles">ship's articles</a> that, among other things, governed conduct of the crew. These "articles of agreement" became authority independent of any nation, and were variously called the <i>Chasse-Partie</i>, <a href="Charterparty" title="Charterparty">Charterparty</a>, <a href="Custom_of_the_sea" title="Custom of the sea">Custom of the sea</a>, or Jamaica Discipline. These retroactively became known (in the modern era) as the Pirate's Code as well. Pirate articles varied from one captain to another, and sometimes even from one voyage to another, but they were generally alike in including provisions for <a href="Discipline" title="Discipline">discipline</a>, specifications for each crewmate's share of treasure, and compensation for the injured.

</p><p>Each crew member was asked to sign or make his mark on the articles, then swear an <a href="Oath" title="Oath">oath</a> of allegiance or honour. The oath was sometimes taken on a <a href="Bible" title="Bible">Bible</a>, but John Phillips' men, lacking a Bible, swore on an axe.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Legend suggests that other pirates swore on crossed <a href="Pistol" title="Pistol">pistols</a>, <a href="Sword" title="Sword">swords</a>, on a <a href="Human_skull" class="mw-redirect" title="Human skull">human skull</a>, or astride a <a href="Naval_artillery_in_the_Age_of_Sail" title="Naval artillery in the Age of Sail">cannon</a>. This act formally inducted the signer into the pirate crew, generally entitling him to <a href="Vote" class="mw-redirect" title="Vote">vote</a> for officers and on other "affairs of moment", to bear arms, and to his share of the plunder. The articles having been signed, they were then posted in a prominent place, often the door to the captain's cabin.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>

</p><p>After a piratical cruise began, new recruits from captured ships would sometimes sign the articles, in some cases voluntarily, in other cases under threat of torture or death. Valuable sea <a href="Artisan" title="Artisan">artisans</a>, such as <a href="Carpenter" class="mw-redirect" title="Carpenter">carpenters</a> and <a href="Navigation" title="Navigation">navigators</a>, were especially likely to be forced to sign articles under duress, and would rarely be released regardless of their decision to sign or not. In some cases, even willing recruits would ask the pirates to pretend to force them to sign, so that they could plead they were forced should they ever be captured by the law.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Generally, men who had not signed the articles had a much better chance of <a href="Acquittal" title="Acquittal">acquittal</a> at <a href="Trial" title="Trial">trial</a> if captured by the law.

</p><p>Pirate articles are closely related to, and were derived from, ship's articles of the time, especially those of <a href="Privateering" class="mw-redirect" title="Privateering">privateers</a>, which similarly provided for discipline and regulated distribution of <a href="Looting" title="Looting">booty</a> (though usually far less equally than with pirate articles).<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Merchant articles and privateering articles can be traced back to Europe in the <a href="Middle_Ages" title="Middle Ages">Middle Ages</a> when there was a system of "joint hands" agreements between merchants, owners, and seamen to share profits.<sup id="cite_ref-Hayes_9-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Hayes-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>

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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Examples">Examples</h2></div><p>

Several 17th and 18th century pirates such as Bartholomew Roberts, John Philips, Edward Low and George Lowther were known to have written articles for piratical rules onboard ships. Lowe’s articles were published in <i>The Boston News-Letter</i> on August 1, 1723, and also <i>The Tryals of Thirty-Six Persons for Piracy, Twenty-Eight of them upon Full Evidence were Found Guilty and the Rest Acquitted</i>, which was also printed in 1723.<sup id="cite_ref-:1_10-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:1-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Nine complete or nearly complete sets of piratical articles have survived, chiefly from <a href="Charles_Johnson_(pirate_biographer)" class="mw-redirect" title="Charles Johnson (pirate biographer)">Charles Johnson</a>'s <i><a href="A_General_History_of_the_Pyrates" title="A General History of the Pyrates">A General History of the Pyrates</a></i>, first published in 1724, and from records kept by <a href="Admiralty_Court" class="mw-redirect" title="Admiralty Court">Admiralty Court</a> proceedings at the trials of pirates.<sup id="cite_ref-Fox_Dissertation_3-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Fox_Dissertation-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> A partial code from <a href="Henry_Morgan" title="Henry Morgan">Henry Morgan</a> is preserved in <a href="Alexandre_Exquemelin" title="Alexandre Exquemelin">Alexandre Exquemelin</a>'s 1678 book <i>The Buccaneers of America</i>. Many other pirates are known to have had articles; the late-17th century Articles of <a href="George_Cusack" title="George Cusack">George Cusack</a> and <a href="Nicholas_Clough" title="Nicholas Clough">Nicholas Clough</a> have also survived intact. Part of the reason that few pirate articles have survived is that pirates on the verge of capture or surrender often burned their articles or threw them overboard to prevent the papers being used against them at trial.<sup id="cite_ref-Fox_Dissertation_3-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Fox_Dissertation-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></p>

<div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Articles_of_Bartholomew_Roberts">Articles of Bartholomew Roberts</h3></div>

<p><a href="Bartholomew_Roberts" title="Bartholomew Roberts">Bartholomew Roberts</a>' Articles were similar (but not identical) to those of his former Captain,

<a href="Howell_Davis" title="Howell Davis">Howell Davis</a>. In turn, Roberts' Articles influenced those of pirates such as Thomas Anstis who served under him and later went their own way.

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<p>I. Every man has a vote in affairs of moment; has equal title to the fresh provisions, or strong liquors, at any time seized, and may use them at pleasure, unless a scarcity (not an uncommon thing among them) makes it necessary, for the good of all, to vote a retrenchment.

</p><p>II. Every man to be called fairly in turn, by list, on board of prizes because, (over and above their proper share) they were on these occasions allowed a shift of clothes: but if they defrauded the company to the value of a dollar in plate, jewels, or money, <a href="Marooning" title="Marooning">marooning</a> was their punishment. If the robbery was only betwixt one another, they contented themselves with slitting the ears and nose of him that was guilty, and set him on shore, not in an uninhabited place, but somewhere, where he was sure to encounter hardships.

</p><p>III. No person to game at cards or dice for money.

</p><p>IV. The lights and candles to be put out at eight o'clock at night: if any of the crew, after that hour still remained inclined for drinking, they were to do it on the open deck.

</p><p>V. To keep their piece, pistols, and cutlass clean and fit for service.

</p><p>VI. No boy or woman to be allowed amongst them. If any man were to be found seducing any of the latter sex, and carried her to sea, disguised, he was to suffer death; (so that when any fell into their hands, as it chanced in the Onslow, they put a sentinel immediately over her to prevent ill consequences from so dangerous an instrument of division and quarrel; but then here lies the roguery; they contend who shall be sentinel, which happens generally to one of the greatest bullies, who, to secure the lady's virtue, will let none lie with her but himself.)

</p><p>VII. To desert the ship or their quarters in battle, was punished with death or marooning.

</p><p>VIII. No striking one another on board, but every man's quarrels to be ended on shore, at sword and pistol. (The quarter-master of the ship, when the parties will not come to any reconciliation, accompanies them on shore with what assistance he thinks proper, and turns the disputant back to back, at so many paces distance; at the word of command, they turn and fire immediately (or else the piece is knocked out of their hands). If both miss, they come to their cutlasses, and then he is declared the victor who draws the first blood.)

</p><p>IX. No man to talk of breaking up their way of living, till each had shared one thousand pounds [equivalent to £202,000 in 2023]. If in order to this, any man should lose a limb, or become a cripple in their service, he was to have eight hundred dollars, out of the public stock, and for lesser hurts, proportionately.

</p><p>X. The <a href="Captain_(nautical)" class="mw-redirect" title="Captain (nautical)">Captain</a> and <a href="Quartermaster#Pirate_quartermasters" title="Quartermaster">Quartermaster</a> to receive two shares of a prize: the <a href="Master_(naval)" title="Master (naval)">master</a>, <a href="Boatswain" title="Boatswain">boatswain</a>, and <a href="Warrant_officer#Standing_warrant_officers" title="Warrant officer">gunner</a>, one share and a half, and other officers one and quarter.

</p><p>XI. The musicians to have rest on the Sabbath Day, but the other six days and nights, none without special favour.

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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Articles_of_John_Phillips">Articles of John Phillips</h3></div>

<p>Captain <a href="John_Phillips_(pirate)" title="John Phillips (pirate)">John Phillips</a>, captain of the <i>Revenge</i>, also set a code for his men in 1724:

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<p>I. Every Man Shall obey civil Command; the <a href="Captain_(nautical)" class="mw-redirect" title="Captain (nautical)">Captain</a> shall have one full Share and a half of all Prizes; the <a href="Master_(naval)" title="Master (naval)">Master</a>, <a href="Carpenter" class="mw-redirect" title="Carpenter">Carpenter</a>, <a href="Boatswain" title="Boatswain">Boatswain</a> and <a href="Warrant_officer#Standing_warrant_officers" title="Warrant officer">Gunner</a> shall have one Share and quarter.

</p><p>II. If any Man shall offer to run away, or keep any Secret from the Company, he shall be <a href="Marooning" title="Marooning">marooned</a> with one Bottle of Powder, one Bottle of Water, one small Arm, and Shot.

</p><p>III. If any Man shall steal any Thing in the Company, or game, to the Value of a <a href="Spanish_dollar" title="Spanish dollar">Piece of Eight</a>, he shall be marooned or shot.

</p><p>IV. If any time we shall meet another Marooner that Man shall sign his Articles without the Consent of our Company, shall suffer such Punishment as the Captain and Company shall think fit.

</p><p>V. That Man that shall strike another whilst these Articles are in force, shall receive Moses’ Law (that is, 40 Stripes lacking one) on the bare Back.

</p><p>VI. That Man that shall snap his Arms, or smoke <a href="Tobacco" title="Tobacco">Tobacco</a> in the Hold, without a Cap to his Pipe, or carry a Candle lighted without a <a href="Lantern" title="Lantern">Lanthorn</a>, shall suffer the same Punishment as in the former Article.

</p><p>VII. That Man shall not keep his Arms clean, fit for an Engagement, or neglect his Business, shall be cut off from his Share, and suffer such other Punishment as the Captain and the Company shall think fit.

</p><p>VIII. If any Man shall lose a Joint in time of an Engagement, shall have 400 Pieces of Eight; if a Limb, 800.

</p><p>IX. If at any time you meet with a prudent Woman, that Man that offers to meddle with her, without her Consent, shall suffer present Death.

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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Articles_of_Edward_Low_and_George_Lowther">Articles of Edward Low and George Lowther</h3></div>

<p>The articles listed below are attributed by the <i><a href="Boston_News-Letter" class="mw-redirect" title="Boston News-Letter">Boston News-Letter</a></i> to Captain <a href="Edward_Low" title="Edward Low">Edward Low</a>. The first eight of these articles are essentially identical to those attributed to pirate captain <a href="George_Lowther_(pirate)" title="George Lowther (pirate)">George Lowther</a> by Charles Johnson. Since Lowther and Low are known to have sailed together from about <a href="New_Year's_Day" title="New Year's Day">New Year's</a> to May 28, 1722, it is probable that both reports are correct and that Low and Lowther shared the same articles, with Low's two extra articles being an <i>ordinance</i>, or amendment, adopted after the two crews separated.

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<p>I. The Captain is to have two full Shares; the Quartermaster is to have one Share and one Half; The Doctor, Mate, Gunner and Boatswain, one Share and one Quarter.

</p><p>II. He that shall be found guilty of taking up any Unlawful Weapon on Board the Privateer or any other prize by us taken, so as to Strike or Abuse one another in any regard, shall suffer what Punishment the Captain and the Majority of the Company shall see fit.

</p><p>III. He that shall be found Guilty of Cowardice in the time of engagements, shall suffer what Punishment the Captain and the Majority of the Company shall think fit.

</p><p>IV. If any Gold, Jewels, Silver, &c. be found on Board of any Prize or Prizes to the value of a Piece of Eight, & the finder do not deliver it to the Quarter Master in the space of 24 hours he shall suffer what Punishment the Captain and the Majority of the Company shall think fit.

</p><p>V. He that is found Guilty of Gaming, or Defrauding one another to the value of a Royal of Plate, shall suffer what Punishment the Captain and the Majority of the Company shall think fit.

</p><p>VI. He that shall have the Misfortune to lose a Limb in time of Engagement, shall have the Sum of Six hundred pieces of Eight, and remain aboard as long as he shall think fit.

</p><p>VII. Good Quarters to be given when Craved.

</p><p>VIII. He that sees a Sail first, shall have the best Pistol or Small Arm aboard of her.

</p><p>IX. He that shall be guilty of Drunkenness in time of Engagement shall suffer what Punishment the Captain and Majority of the Company shall think fit.

</p><p>X. No snapping of Guns in the Hold.

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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Articles_of_John_Gow">Articles of John Gow</h3></div>

<p>A set of articles written in <a href="John_Gow" title="John Gow">John Gow</a>'s own hand was found aboard his ship, the <i>Revenge</i> (née <i>George</i>), in 1729.<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Article IV's reference to no going ashore "till the ship is off the ground" suggests that the <i>Revenge</i> was already grounded when the articles were written, only days before Gow and his men were captured. The code states as follows:

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<p>I. That every man shall obey his commander in all respects, as if the ship was his own, and as if he received monthly wages.

</p><p>II. That no man shall give, or dispose of, the ship's provisions; but every one shall have an equal share.

</p><p>III. That no man shall open, or declare to any person or persons, who they are, or what designs they are upon; and any persons so offending shall be punished with immediate death.

</p><p>IV. That no man shall go on shore till the ship is off the ground, and in readiness to put to sea.

</p><p>V. That every man shall keep his watch night and day; and at the hour of eight in the evening every one shall retire from gaming and drinking, in order to attend his respective station.

</p><p>VI. Every person who shall offend against any of these articles shall be punished with death, or in such other manner as the ship's company shall think proper.

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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Articles_of_Henry_Morgan_and_other_buccaneers">Articles of Henry Morgan and other buccaneers</h3></div>

<p><a href="Alexandre_Exquemelin" title="Alexandre Exquemelin">Exquemelin</a> writes in general terms about the articles of late 17th century <a href="Caribbean" title="Caribbean">Caribbean</a> buccaneers. Although he does not attribute these articles to any specific buccaneer captain, Exquemelin almost certainly sailed with <a href="Henry_Morgan" title="Henry Morgan">Henry Morgan</a> as a physician, and thus his account likely reflects Morgan's articles more accurately than any other privateer or buccaneer of the time.

</p><p>Exquemelin writes that the buccaneers "agree on certain articles, which are put in writing, by way of bond or obligation, which every one is bound to observe, and all of them, or the chief, set their hands to it." Although Exquemelin does not number the articles, the following approximately reflects his description of the buccaneers' laws:

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<p>I. The fund of all payments under the articles is the stock of what is gotten by the expedition, following the same law as other pirates, that is, <a href="No_prey%2C_no_pay" class="mw-redirect" title="No prey, no pay">No prey, no pay</a>.

</p><p>II. Compensation is provided the Captain for the use of his ship, and the salary of the carpenter, or shipwright, who mended, <a href="Careen" class="mw-redirect" title="Careen">careened</a>, and rigged the vessel (the latter usually about 150 pieces of eight). A sum for provisions and victuals is specified, usually 200 pieces of eight. A salary and compensation is specified for the surgeon and his medicine chest, usually 250 pieces of eight.

</p><p>III. A standard compensation is provided for maimed and mutilated buccaneers. "Thus they order for the loss of a right arm six hundred pieces of eight, or six slaves; for the loss of a left arm five hundred pieces of eight, or five slaves; for a right leg five hundred pieces of eight, or five slaves; for the left leg four hundred pieces of eight, or four slaves; for an eye one hundred pieces of eight, or one slave; for a finger of the hand the same reward as for the eye.

</p><p>IV. Shares of booty are provided as follows: "the Captain, or chief Commander, is allotted five or six portions to what the ordinary seamen have; the Master's Mate only two; and Officers proportionate to their employment. After whom they draw equal parts from the highest even to the lowest mariner, the boys not being omitted. For even these draw half a share, by reason that, when they happen to take a better vessel than their own, it is the duty of the boys to set fire to the ship or boat wherein they are, and then retire to the prize which they have taken."

</p><p>V. "In the prizes they take, it is severely prohibited to every one to usurp anything, in particular to themselves. ... Yea, they make a solemn oath to each other not to abscond, or conceal the least thing they find amongst the prey. If afterwards any one is found unfaithful, who has contravened the said oath, immediately he is separated and turned out of the society."

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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Establishment_of_pirate_codes">Establishment of pirate codes</h2></div>

<p>The pirate articles were not codes of chivalry, they were established to keep things running smoothly and peacefully onboard the ship. The first and most important step after a pirate crew formed was to draft the code under which it would sail. The codes were considered to be legally binding, and there were swift and severe consequences for those that broke them. There was, however, no official hierarchy, and every vote carried equal weight in establishing these codes. The captain’s authority was not absolute, though the articles might have been influenced by his leadership style and the crew’s goals and experiences. The captain’s primary duties included navigation and deciding when to engage in naval warfare, but the quartermaster was responsible for overseeing daily operations, including interpreting the Articles.<sup id="cite_ref-:1_10-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:1-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>

</p><p>Pirates established articles of conduct which were more democratic than those of naval or merchant marines, though the punishments for violating them were brutal. A common form of punishment was being marooned. Execution by hanging was another common practice. Pirate Articles also stated that goods taken from another ship during a raid were to be fairly distributed among the crew. Some Pirate articles dictated that no women were permitted aboard ships, and violating this code could be punishable by death.

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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Richard_Braithwaite_and_hydrarchy">Richard Braithwaite and hydrarchy</h2></div>

<p>Scholars Peter Linebaugh and Marcus Rediker examine and discuss hydrarchy, which was a term devised by writer Richard Braithwaite to describe two significant changes which were the formalization of maritime law or “maritime state from above,”<sup id="cite_ref-:0_12-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and the establishment of mariners’ codes or “self-organization of sailors from below”<sup id="cite_ref-:0_12-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> during the 17th century. Braithwaite noted that these sailors did not possess “much civility; the sea hath taught him other rhetoric…”<sup id="cite_ref-:0_12-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> referring to them as tough, crude and stupid but acknowledging their significance and contributions within the hydrarchy. Life was always complex onboard ship and during this time, the emergence of resistance and revolution at sea challenged the rise of capitalism and imperialism.

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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Notes">Notes</h2></div>

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<li id="cite_note-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-1">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">The term "Pirate Code" was not used during this period and is a modern invention.</span>

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<li><a href="Distribution_of_justice" title="Distribution of justice">Distribution of justice</a></li>

<li><a href="Governance_in_18th-century_piracy" title="Governance in 18th-century piracy">Governance in 18th-century piracy</a></li>

<li><a href="Parley" title="Parley">Parley</a>, part of the code according to the <i><a href="Pirates_of_the_Caribbean_(film_series)" title="Pirates of the Caribbean (film series)">Pirates of the Caribbean (film series)</a></i>.</li>

<li><a href="Piracy_in_the_Caribbean" title="Piracy in the Caribbean">Piracy in the Caribbean</a></li>

<li><a href="Pirates_in_popular_culture" class="mw-redirect" title="Pirates in popular culture">Pirates in popular culture</a></li>

<li><a href="John_Taylor_(pirate)" title="John Taylor (pirate)">Richard Taylor</a>, another Golden Age pirate whose Articles were recorded by witnesses</li></ul>

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</style><cite id="CITEREFPiracy" class="citation web cs1">Piracy, Golden Age of. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://goldenageofpiracy.org/buccaneers/bartholomew-portugues.php">"Buccaneers | Bartholomew Portugues"</a>. <i>Golden Age of Piracy</i><span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">2022-01-22</span></span>.</cite></span>

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<li id="cite_note-Fox_Dissertation-3"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-Fox_Dissertation_3-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Fox_Dissertation_3-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Fox_Dissertation_3-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><cite id="CITEREFFox2013" class="citation book cs1">Fox, E. T. (2013). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://ore.exeter.ac.uk/repository/bitstream/handle/10871/14872/FoxE.pdf"><i>'Piratical Schemes and Contracts': Pirate Articles and their Society, 1660-1730</i></a> <span class="cs1-format">(PDF)</span>. Exeter: University of Exeter<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">15 June</span> 2017</span>.</cite></span>

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<li id="cite_note-Berger-4"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-Berger_4-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><cite id="CITEREFBerger" class="citation web cs1 cs1-prop-foreign-lang-source">Berger, Klaus Peter. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.trans-lex.org/the-lex-mercatoria-and-the-translex-principles_ID8">"The Lex Mercatoria (Old and New) and the TransLex-Principles"</a>. <i>www.trans-lex.org</i> (in German)<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">21 October</span> 2021</span>.</cite></span>

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<li id="cite_note-5"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-5">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Johnson, Charles (1724), <i>A General History of the Pyrates</i>, p. 398 <a href="OCLC_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="OCLC (identifier)">OCLC</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/561824965">561824965</a>.</span>

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<li id="cite_note-6"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-6">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Little, Benerson (2005), <i>The Sea Rover's Practice: Pirate Tactics and Techniques</i>, Potomac Books, Inc., <a href="ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <bdi>1-57488-910-9</bdi>, p. 34.</span>

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<li id="cite_note-7"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-7">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><i>Sometimes seamen who volunteered to join the pirates asked the quartermaster to go through the motions of forcing them in the presence of their officers. The quartermaster was happy to oblige and do a blustery piratical turn for them, with much waving of cutlasses and mouthing of oaths.</i> Botting, Douglas <i>The Pirates</i>, Time-Life Books Inc., p. 51.</span>

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<li id="cite_note-8"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-8">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">See the Articles of the privateer ship <i>Mars</i>, at <a rel="nofollow" class="external free" href="http://pirates.hegewisch.net/articles_new.html#privateer">http://pirates.hegewisch.net/articles_new.html#privateer</a></span>

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<li id="cite_note-Hayes-9"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-Hayes_9-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Hayes, Peter (2008), "Pirates, Privateers and the Contract Theories of Hobbes and Locke", <i>History of Political Thought</i> <b>24</b>, 3: 461-84.</span>

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<li id="cite_note-:1-10"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-:1_10-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-:1_10-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><cite id="CITEREFSimon2023" class="citation book cs1">Simon, Rebecca (2023). <i>The Pirates' Code Laws and Life Aboard Ship</i>. London UK: Reaktion Books. p. 9. <a href="ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <bdi>9781789147414</bdi>.</cite></span>

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<li id="cite_note-11"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-11">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.exclassics.com/newgate/ng182.htm">The Newgate Calendar - JOHN GOW</a> Accessed 16 December 2009.</span>

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<li id="cite_note-:0-12"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-:0_12-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-:0_12-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-:0_12-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><cite id="CITEREFLinebaughRediker2000" class="citation book cs1">Linebaugh, Peter; Rediker, Marcus (2000). <i>The many-headed hydra: sailors, slaves, commoners, and the hidden history of the revolutionary Atlantic</i>. Boston: Beacon Press. <a href="ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <bdi>978-0-8070-5006-4</bdi>.</cite></span>

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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="External_links">External links</h2></div>

<ul><li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20050913081022/http://buccaneer.boourns.net/piratecode.php">Really Bad Eggs: Pirates of the Caribbean</a></li></ul>

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<ul><li><a href="Ancient_Mediterranean_piracy" title="Ancient Mediterranean piracy">Ancient Mediterranean</a></li>

<li><a href="Golden_Age_of_Piracy" title="Golden Age of Piracy">Golden Age</a></li>

<li><a href="Piracy_in_the_21st_century" title="Piracy in the 21st century">21st century</a>

</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;white-space: normal;">Types of pirate</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

<ul><li><a href="Albanian_piracy" title="Albanian piracy">Albanian piracy</a></li>

<li><a href="Anglo-Turkish_piracy" title="Anglo-Turkish piracy">Anglo-Turkish piracy</a></li>

<li><a href="Baltic_Slavic_piracy" title="Baltic Slavic piracy">Baltic Slavic pirates</a></li>

<li><a href="Barbary_pirates" class="mw-redirect" title="Barbary pirates">Barbary pirates (corsairs)</a>

<ul><li><a href="Corsairs_of_Algiers" title="Corsairs of Algiers">Algiers</a></li></ul></li>

<li><a href="Brethren_of_the_Coast" title="Brethren of the Coast">Brethren of the Coast</a></li>

<li><a href="Buccaneer" title="Buccaneer">Buccaneers</a></li>

<li><a href="Cilician_pirates" title="Cilician pirates">Cilician pirates</a></li>

<li><a href="Child_pirate" title="Child pirate">Child pirate</a></li>

<li><a href="Cossacks" title="Cossacks">Cossack pirates</a></li>

<li><a href="Filibuster_(military)" title="Filibuster (military)">Filibusters</a></li>

<li><a href="French_corsairs" title="French corsairs">French corsairs</a></li>

<li><a href="Jewish_pirates" title="Jewish pirates">Jewish pirates</a></li>

<li><a href="Piracy_in_the_Sulu_and_Celebes_Seas" title="Piracy in the Sulu and Celebes Seas">Moro pirates</a></li>

<li><a href="Narentines" title="Narentines">Narentines</a></li>

<li><a href="Privateer" title="Privateer">Privateers</a>

<ul><li><a href="Confederate_privateer" title="Confederate privateer">Confederate</a></li></ul></li>

<li><a href="River_pirate" title="River pirate">River pirate</a></li>

<li><a href="Geuzen" title="Geuzen">Sea Beggars</a></li>

<li><a href="Bawarij" title="Bawarij">Sindhi corsairs</a></li>

<li><a href="Timber_pirate" title="Timber pirate">Timber pirate</a></li>

<li><a href="Ushkuyniks" title="Ushkuyniks">Ushkuyniks</a></li>

<li><a href="Uskoks" title="Uskoks">Uskoks</a></li>

<li><a href="Vikings" title="Vikings">Vikings</a></li>

<li><a href="Victual_Brothers" title="Victual Brothers">Victual Brothers</a></li>

<li><a href="Wokou" title="Wokou">Wokou</a></li>

<li><a href="Women_in_piracy" title="Women in piracy">Women in piracy</a></li></ul>

</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;white-space: normal;">Areas</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="Piracy_in_the_Atlantic_World" title="Piracy in the Atlantic World">Atlantic World</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

<ul><li><a href="Piracy_in_the_Caribbean" title="Piracy in the Caribbean">Caribbean</a>

<ul><li><a href="Piracy_in_the_British_Virgin_Islands" title="Piracy in the British Virgin Islands">British Virgin Islands</a></li>

<li><a href="Spanish_Main" title="Spanish Main">Spanish Main</a>

<ul><li><a href="Piracy_on_Lake_Nicaragua" title="Piracy on Lake Nicaragua">Lake Nicaragua</a></li></ul></li>

<li><a href="Piracy_off_the_coast_of_Venezuela" class="mw-redirect" title="Piracy off the coast of Venezuela">Venezuela</a></li></ul></li>

<li><a href="Piracy_in_the_Gulf_of_Guinea" title="Piracy in the Gulf of Guinea">Gulf of Guinea</a></li></ul>

</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Indian Ocean</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

<ul><li><a href="Piracy_around_the_Horn_of_Africa" title="Piracy around the Horn of Africa">Horn of Africa</a>

<ul><li><a href="Piracy_off_the_coast_of_Somalia" title="Piracy off the coast of Somalia">Somali Coast</a></li></ul></li>

<li><a href="Piracy_in_Indonesia" title="Piracy in Indonesia">Indonesia</a></li>

<li><a href="Piracy_in_the_Persian_Gulf" title="Piracy in the Persian Gulf">Persian Gulf</a></li>

<li><a href="Piracy_in_the_Strait_of_Malacca" title="Piracy in the Strait of Malacca">Strait of Malacca</a></li>

<li><a href="Nosy_Boraha" title="Nosy Boraha">Nosy Boraha</a></li></ul>

</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Other waters</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

<ul><li><a href="Baltic_Slavic_piracy" title="Baltic Slavic piracy">Baltic Slavic piracy</a></li>

<li><a href="Barbary_Coast" title="Barbary Coast">Barbary Coast</a></li>

<li><a href="Piracy_on_Falcon_Lake" title="Piracy on Falcon Lake">Falcon Lake</a></li>

<li><a href="Pirates_of_the_South_China_Coast" title="Pirates of the South China Coast">South China Coast</a></li>

</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="Pirate_haven" title="Pirate haven">Pirate havens</a><br>and bases</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

<ul><li><a href="Barataria_Bay" title="Barataria Bay">Barataria Bay</a></li>

<li><a href="%C3%8Ele_Sainte-Marie" class="mw-redirect" title="Île Sainte-Marie">Île Sainte-Marie</a></li>

<li><a href="Libertatia" title="Libertatia">Libertatia</a></li>

<li><a href="Lundy" title="Lundy">Lundy</a></li>

<li><a href="Mehdya%2C_Morocco" title="Mehdya, Morocco">Mamora</a></li>

<li><a href="Port_Royal" title="Port Royal">Port Royal</a></li>

<li><a href="Republic_of_Pirates" class="mw-redirect" title="Republic of Pirates">Republic of Pirates</a></li>

<li><a href="Republic_of_Sal%C3%A9" title="Republic of Salé">Republic of Salé</a></li>

<li><a href="Saint_Augustin%2C_Madagascar" title="Saint Augustin, Madagascar">Saint Augustin</a></li>

<li><a href="Saint-Malo" title="Saint-Malo">Saint-Malo</a></li>

<li><a href="Tortuga_(Haiti)" title="Tortuga (Haiti)">Tortuga</a></li></ul>

</div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;white-space: normal;">Major figures</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Pirates</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

<ul><li><a href="Abduwali_Muse" title="Abduwali Muse">Abduwali Muse</a></li>

<li><a href="Abshir_Boyah" title="Abshir Boyah">Abshir Boyah</a></li>

<li><a href="Adam_Baldridge" title="Adam Baldridge">Adam Baldridge</a></li>

<li><a href="Abraham_Samuel" title="Abraham Samuel">Abraham Samuel</a></li>

<li><a href="Alf_and_Alfhild" title="Alf and Alfhild">Alfhild</a></li>

<li><a href="Albert_W._Hicks" title="Albert W. Hicks">Albert W. Hicks</a></li>

<li><a href="Anne_Bonny" title="Anne Bonny">Anne Bonny</a></li>

<li><a href="Ant%C3%B3nio_de_Faria" title="António de Faria">António de Faria</a></li>

<li><a href="Alexandre_Exquemelin" title="Alexandre Exquemelin">Alexandre Exquemelin</a></li>

<li><a href="Artemisia_I_of_Caria" title="Artemisia I of Caria">Artemisia I of Caria</a></li>

<li><a href="Bartolomeu_Portugu%C3%AAs" title="Bartolomeu Português">Bartolomeu Português</a></li>

<li><a href="Bartholomew_Roberts" title="Bartholomew Roberts">Bartholomew Roberts</a></li>

<li><a href="Benito_de_Soto" title="Benito de Soto">Benito de Soto</a></li>

<li><a href="Benjamin_Hornigold" title="Benjamin Hornigold">Benjamin Hornigold</a></li>

<li><a href="Black_Caesar_(pirate)" title="Black Caesar (pirate)">Black Caesar</a></li>

<li><a href="Blackbeard" title="Blackbeard">Blackbeard</a></li>

<li><a href="Bully_Hayes" title="Bully Hayes">Bully Hayes</a></li>

<li><a href="John_Rackham_(pirate)" class="mw-redirect" title="John Rackham (pirate)">John Rackham</a></li>

<li><a href="Charles_Gibbs" title="Charles Gibbs">Charles Gibbs</a></li>

<li><a href="Charlotte_Badger" title="Charlotte Badger">Charlotte Badger</a></li>

<li><a href="Charlotte_de_Berry" title="Charlotte de Berry">Charlotte de Berry</a></li>

<li><a href="Cheung_Po_Tsai" title="Cheung Po Tsai">Cheung Po Tsai</a></li>

<li><a href="Christina_Anna_Skytte" title="Christina Anna Skytte">Christina Anna Skytte</a></li>

<li><a href="Dan_Seavey" title="Dan Seavey">Dan Seavey</a></li>

<li><a href="Diabolito" title="Diabolito">Diabolito</a></li>

<li><a href="Dirk_Chivers" title="Dirk Chivers">Dirk Chivers</a></li>

<li><a href="Dominique_You" title="Dominique You">Dominique You</a></li>

<li><a href="Edward_England" title="Edward England">Edward England</a></li>

<li><a href="Edward_Low" title="Edward Low">Edward Low</a></li>

<li><a href="Eli_Boggs" title="Eli Boggs">Eli Boggs</a></li>

<li><a href="Elise_Eskilsdotter" title="Elise Eskilsdotter">Elise Eskilsdotter</a></li>

<li><a href="Eustace_the_Monk" title="Eustace the Monk">Eustace the Monk</a></li>

<li><a href="Flora_Burn" title="Flora Burn">Flora Burn</a></li>

<li><a href="Flying_Gang" title="Flying Gang">Flying Gang</a></li>

<li><a href="F%C5%ABma_Kotar%C5%8D" title="Fūma Kotarō">Fūma Kotarō</a></li>

<li><a href="Francis_Drake" title="Francis Drake">Francis Drake</a></li>

<li><a href="Fran%C3%A7ois_Le_Clerc" title="François Le Clerc">François Le Clerc</a></li>

<li><a href="Fran%C3%A7ois_l'Olonnais" title="François l'Olonnais">François l'Olonnais</a></li>

<li><a href="Grace_O'Malley" title="Grace O'Malley">Grace O'Malley</a></li>

<li><a href="Hayreddin_Barbarossa" title="Hayreddin Barbarossa">Hayreddin Barbarossa</a></li>

<li><a href="Hendrick_Lucifer" title="Hendrick Lucifer">Hendrick Lucifer</a></li>

<li><a href="Henri_Caesar" title="Henri Caesar">Henri Caesar</a></li>

<li><a href="Henry_Every" title="Henry Every">Henry Every</a></li>

<li><a href="Henry_Morgan" title="Henry Morgan">Henry Morgan</a></li>

<li><a href="Henry_Strangways_(pirate)" title="Henry Strangways (pirate)">Henry Strangways</a></li>

<li><a href="Hippolyte_Bouchard" title="Hippolyte Bouchard">Hippolyte Bouchard</a></li>

<li><a href="Huang_Bamei" title="Huang Bamei">Huang Bamei</a></li>

<li><a href="Israel_Hands" title="Israel Hands">Israel Hands</a></li>

<li><a href="Jacquotte_Delahaye" title="Jacquotte Delahaye">Jacquotte Delahaye</a></li>

<li><a href="Jan_Janszoon" title="Jan Janszoon">Jan Janszoon</a></li>

<li><a href="Jean_Lafitte" title="Jean Lafitte">Jean Lafitte</a></li>

<li><a href="Jeanne_de_Clisson" title="Jeanne de Clisson">Jeanne de Clisson</a></li>

<li><a href="Johanna_H%C3%A5rd" title="Johanna Hård">Johanna Hård</a></li>

<li><a href="John_Hawkins_(naval_commander)" title="John Hawkins (naval commander)">John Hawkins</a></li>

<li><a href="John_Newland_Maffitt_(privateer)" title="John Newland Maffitt (privateer)">John Newland Maffitt</a></li>

<li><a href="J%C3%B8rgen_J%C3%B8rgensen" title="Jørgen Jørgensen">Jørgen Jørgensen</a></li>

<li><a href="Jos%C3%A9_Joaquim_Almeida" title="José Joaquim Almeida">José Joaquim Almeida</a></li>

<li><a href="Joseph_Baker_(pirate)" title="Joseph Baker (pirate)">Joseph Baker</a></li>

<li><a href="Joseph_Barss_(privateer)" title="Joseph Barss (privateer)">Joseph Barss</a></li>

<li><a href="Klaus_St%C3%B6rtebeker" title="Klaus Störtebeker">Klaus Störtebeker</a></li>

<li><a href="Laurens_de_Graaf" title="Laurens de Graaf">Laurens de Graaf</a></li>

<li><a href="Lawrence_Prince" title="Lawrence Prince">Lawrence Prince</a></li>

<li><a href="Liang_Daoming" title="Liang Daoming">Liang Daoming</a></li>

<li><a href="Limahong" title="Limahong">Limahong</a></li>

<li><a href="Louis-Michel_Aury" title="Louis-Michel Aury">Louis-Michel Aury</a></li>

<li><a href="Mansel_Alcantra" title="Mansel Alcantra">Mansel Alcantra</a></li>

<li><a href="Manuel_Ribeiro_Pardal" title="Manuel Ribeiro Pardal">Manuel Ribeiro Pardal</a></li>

<li><a href="Martin_Frobisher" title="Martin Frobisher">Martin Frobisher</a></li>

<li><a href="Mary_Critchett" title="Mary Critchett">Mary Critchett</a></li>

<li><a href="Eric_Cobham_and_Maria_Lindsey" title="Eric Cobham and Maria Lindsey">Mary Lindsey</a></li>

<li><a href="Mary_Wolverston" title="Mary Wolverston">Mary Wolverston</a></li>

<li><a href="Michel_de_Grammont" title="Michel de Grammont">Michel de Grammont</a></li>

<li><a href="Moses_Cohen_Henriques" title="Moses Cohen Henriques">Moses Cohen Henriques</a></li>

<li><a href="Nathaniel_Gordon" title="Nathaniel Gordon">Nathaniel Gordon</a></li>

<li><a href="Nicholas_van_Hoorn" title="Nicholas van Hoorn">Nicholas van Hoorn</a></li>

<li><a href="Olivier_Levasseur" title="Olivier Levasseur">Olivier Levasseur</a></li>

<li><a href="Pedro_Gilbert" title="Pedro Gilbert">Pedro Gilbert</a></li>

<li><a href="Peter_Easton" title="Peter Easton">Peter Easton</a></li>

<li><a href="Pierre_Lafitte" title="Pierre Lafitte">Pierre Lafitte</a></li>

<li><a href="Piet_Pieterszoon_Hein" title="Piet Pieterszoon Hein">Piet Pieterszoon Hein</a></li>

<li><a href="Princess_Sela" title="Princess Sela">Princess Sela</a></li>

<li><a href="Rahmah_ibn_Jabir_al-Jalhami" title="Rahmah ibn Jabir al-Jalhami">Rahmah ibn Jabir al-Jalhami</a></li>

<li><a href="Rachel_Wall" title="Rachel Wall">Rachel Wall</a></li>

<li><a href="Oru%C3%A7_Reis" class="mw-redirect" title="Oruç Reis">Redbeard</a></li>

<li><a href="Richard_Glover_(pirate)" title="Richard Glover (pirate)">Richard Glover</a></li>

<li><a href="Robert_Culliford" title="Robert Culliford">Robert Culliford</a></li>

<li><a href="Robert_Surcouf" title="Robert Surcouf">Robert Surcouf</a></li>

<li><a href="Roberto_Cofres%C3%AD" title="Roberto Cofresí">Roberto Cofresí</a></li>

<li><a href="Roche_Braziliano" title="Roche Braziliano">Roche Braziliano</a></li>

<li><a href="Rusla" title="Rusla">Rusla</a></li>

<li><a href="Sadie_Farrell" title="Sadie Farrell">Sadie Farrell</a></li>

<li><a href="Samuel_Bellamy" title="Samuel Bellamy">Samuel Bellamy</a></li>

<li><a href="Samuel_Hall_Lord" title="Samuel Hall Lord">Samuel Hall Lord</a></li>

<li><a href="Samuel_Mason" title="Samuel Mason">Samuel Mason</a></li>

<li><a href="Samuel_Pallache" title="Samuel Pallache">Samuel Pallache</a></li>

<li><a href="Sayyida_al_Hurra" title="Sayyida al Hurra">Sayyida al Hurra</a></li>

<li><a href="Sister_Ping" title="Sister Ping">Sister Ping</a></li>

<li><a href="Shirahama_Kenki" title="Shirahama Kenki">Shirahama Kenki</a></li>

<li><a href="Simon_Mascarino" title="Simon Mascarino">Simon Mascarino</a></li>

<li><a href="Stede_Bonnet" title="Stede Bonnet">Stede Bonnet</a></li>

<li><a href="Teuta" title="Teuta">Teuta</a></li>

<li><a href="Thomas_Cavendish" title="Thomas Cavendish">Thomas Cavendish</a></li>

<li><a href="Thomas_Tew" title="Thomas Tew">Thomas Tew</a></li>

<li><a href="Veborg" title="Veborg">Veborg</a></li>

<li><a href="Victual_Brothers" title="Victual Brothers">Victual Brothers</a></li>

<li><a href="Vincenzo_Gambi" title="Vincenzo Gambi">Vincenzo Gambi</a></li>

<li><a href="William_Dampier" title="William Dampier">William Dampier</a></li>

<li><a href="William_Kidd" title="William Kidd">William Kidd</a></li>

<li><a href="Zheng_Jing" title="Zheng Jing">Zheng Jing</a></li>

<li><a href="Zheng_Qi_(pirate)" title="Zheng Qi (pirate)">Zheng Qi</a></li>

<li><a href="Zheng_Yi_(pirate)" title="Zheng Yi (pirate)">Zheng Yi</a></li>

<li><a href="Zheng_Zhilong" title="Zheng Zhilong">Zheng Zhilong</a></li>

<li><a href="Zheng_Yi_Sao" title="Zheng Yi Sao">Zheng Yi Sao</a></li></ul>

</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Pirate<br>hunters</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

<ul><li><a href="Angelo_Emo" title="Angelo Emo">Angelo Emo</a></li>

<li><a href="Chaloner_Ogle" title="Chaloner Ogle">Chaloner Ogle</a></li>

<li><a href="David_Porter_(naval_officer)" title="David Porter (naval officer)">David Porter</a></li>

<li><a href="Duarte_Pacheco_Pereira" title="Duarte Pacheco Pereira">Duarte Pacheco Pereira</a></li>

<li><a href="James_Brooke" title="James Brooke">James Brooke</a></li>

<li><a href="Julius_Caesar" title="Julius Caesar">Julius Caesar</a></li>

<li><a href="Campuzano_Polanco_family" class="mw-redirect" title="Campuzano Polanco family">Jose Campuzano-Polanco</a></li>

<li><a href="Luis_Fajardo_(Spanish_Navy_officer)" title="Luis Fajardo (Spanish Navy officer)">Luis Fajardo</a></li>

<li><a href="Miguel_Enr%C3%ADquez_(privateer)" title="Miguel Enríquez (privateer)">Miguel Enríquez</a></li>

<li><a href="Pedro_Men%C3%A9ndez_de_Avil%C3%A9s" title="Pedro Menéndez de Avilés">Pedro Menéndez de Avilés</a></li>

<li><a href="Pompey" title="Pompey">Pompey</a></li>

<li><a href="Richard_Avery_Hornsby" title="Richard Avery Hornsby">Richard Avery Hornsby</a></li>

<li><a href="Robert_Maynard" title="Robert Maynard">Robert Maynard</a></li>

<li><a href="Thomas_Warren_(Royal_Navy_officer)" title="Thomas Warren (Royal Navy officer)">Thomas Warren</a></li>

<li><a href="Woodes_Rogers" title="Woodes Rogers">Woodes Rogers</a></li></ul>

</div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;white-space: normal;">Pirate ships</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

<ul><li><i><a href="Adventure_Galley" title="Adventure Galley">Adventure Galley</a></i></li>

<li><i><a href="Ambrose_Light_(ship)" title="Ambrose Light (ship)">Ambrose Light</a></i></li>

<li><i><a href="Fancy_(ship)" title="Fancy (ship)">Fancy</a></i></li>

<li><i><a href="Flying_Dutchman" title="Flying Dutchman">Flying Dutchman</a></i></li>

<li><i><a href="Ganj-i-Sawai" title="Ganj-i-Sawai">Ganj-i-Sawai</a></i></li>

<li><i><a href="Queen_Anne's_Revenge" title="Queen Anne's Revenge">Queen Anne's Revenge</a></i></li>

<li><i><a href="Quedagh_Merchant" title="Quedagh Merchant">Quedagh Merchant</a></i></li>

<li><i><a href="CSS_McRae" title="CSS McRae">Marquis of Havana</a></i></li>

<li><i><a href="Jeanne_de_Clisson" title="Jeanne de Clisson">My Revenge</a></i></li>

<li><i><a href="Bartholomew_Roberts" title="Bartholomew Roberts">Royal Fortune</a></i></li>

<li><i><a href="Saladin_(barque)" title="Saladin (barque)">Saladin</a></i></li>

<li><i><a href="Whydah_Gally" title="Whydah Gally">Whydah Gally</a></i></li>

</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;white-space: normal;">Pirate battles and incidents</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

<ul><li><a href="1582_Cagayan_battles" title="1582 Cagayan battles">1582 Cagayan battles</a></li>

<li><a href="1985_Lahad_Datu_ambush" title="1985 Lahad Datu ambush">1985 Lahad Datu ambush</a></li>

<li><a href="Action_of_9_November_1822" title="Action of 9 November 1822">Action of 9 November 1822</a></li>

<li><a href="Action_of_28_October_2007" title="Action of 28 October 2007">Action of 28 October 2007</a></li>

<li><a href="Action_of_11_November_2008" title="Action of 11 November 2008">Action of 11 November 2008</a></li>

<li><a href="April_2009_raid_off_Somalia" title="April 2009 raid off Somalia">Action of 9 April 2009</a></li>

<li><a href="Action_of_23_March_2010" class="mw-redirect" title="Action of 23 March 2010">Action of 23 March 2010</a></li>

<li><a href="Action_of_1_April_2010" class="mw-redirect" title="Action of 1 April 2010">Action of 1 April 2010</a></li>

<li><a href="Action_of_5_April_2010" class="mw-redirect" title="Action of 5 April 2010">Action of 5 April 2010</a></li>

<li><a href="Aegean_Sea_anti-piracy_operations_of_the_United_States" title="Aegean Sea anti-piracy operations of the United States">Anti-piracy in the Aegean</a></li>

<li><a href="Antelope_of_Boston" title="Antelope of Boston">Antelope incident</a></li>

<li><a href="West_Indies_anti-piracy_operations_of_the_United_States" title="West Indies anti-piracy operations of the United States">Anti-piracy in the West Indies</a></li>

<li><a href="Attack_on_Veracruz" title="Attack on Veracruz">Attack on Veracruz</a></li>

<li><a href="Spanish_expedition_to_Balanguingui" title="Spanish expedition to Balanguingui">Balanguingui Expedition</a></li>

<li><a href="Battle_of_Boca_Teacapan" title="Battle of Boca Teacapan">Battle of Boca Teacapan</a></li>

<li><a href="Battle_of_Cape_Fear_River_(1718)" title="Battle of Cape Fear River (1718)">Battle of Cape Fear River</a></li>

<li><a href="Battle_of_Cape_Lopez" title="Battle of Cape Lopez">Battle of Cape Lopez</a></li>

<li><a href="Battle_of_Doro_Passage" title="Battle of Doro Passage">Battle of Doro Passage</a></li>

<li><a href="Ganj-i-Sawai" title="Ganj-i-Sawai">Battle of Mandab Strait</a></li>

<li><a href="Battle_of_Manila_(1574)" title="Battle of Manila (1574)">Battle of Manila</a></li>

<li><a href="Battle_off_Minicoy_Island" class="mw-redirect" title="Battle off Minicoy Island">Battle off Minicoy Island</a></li>

<li><a href="Battle_off_Mukah" title="Battle off Mukah">Battle off Mukah</a></li>

<li><a href="Battle_of_Nam_Quan" title="Battle of Nam Quan">Battle of Nam Quan</a></li>

<li><a href="Battle_of_New_Orleans" title="Battle of New Orleans">Battle of New Orleans</a></li>

<li><a href="Blackbeard" title="Blackbeard">Battle of Ocracoke Inlet</a></li>

<li><a href="Battle_of_Pianosa" title="Battle of Pianosa">Battle of Pianosa</a></li>

<li><a href="Battle_of_the_Leotung" title="Battle of the Leotung">Battle of the Leotung</a></li>

<li><a href="Battle_of_the_Tiger's_Mouth" title="Battle of the Tiger's Mouth">Battle of the Tiger's Mouth</a></li>

<li><a href="Battle_of_Tonkin_River" title="Battle of Tonkin River">Battle of Tonkin River</a></li>

<li><a href="Battle_of_Ty-ho_Bay" title="Battle of Ty-ho Bay">Battle of Ty-ho Bay</a></li>

<li><a href="Battle_of_Tysami" title="Battle of Tysami">Battle of Tysami</a></li>

<li><a href="MV_Beluga_Nomination_incident" title="MV Beluga Nomination incident"><i>Beluga Nomination</i> incident</a></li>

<li><a href="Charles_Vane" title="Charles Vane">Blockade of Charleston (Vane)</a></li>

<li><a href="Chepo_expedition" title="Chepo expedition">Chepo Expedition</a></li>

<li><a href="Ambrose_Light_(ship)" title="Ambrose Light (ship)">Capture of the <i>Ambrose Light</i></a></li>

<li><a href="Capture_of_John_Rackham" title="Capture of John Rackham">Capture of John Rackham</a></li>

<li><a href="Capture_of_the_schooner_Bravo" title="Capture of the schooner Bravo">Capture of the schooner <i>Bravo</i></a></li>

<li><a href="Capture_of_the_schooner_Fancy" class="mw-redirect" title="Capture of the schooner Fancy">Capture of the schooner <i>Fancy</i></a></li>

<li><a href="Capture_of_the_sloop_Anne" title="Capture of the sloop Anne">Capture of the sloop <i>Anne</i></a></li>

<li><a href="Carr%C3%A9_d'As_IV_incident" title="Carré d'As IV incident"><i>Carré d'As IV</i> incident</a></li>

<li><a href="Dai_Hong_Dan_incident" title="Dai Hong Dan incident"><i>Dai Hong Dan</i> incident</a></li>

<li><a href="Falklands_Expedition" title="Falklands Expedition">Falklands Expedition</a></li>

<li><a href="Great_Lakes_Patrol" title="Great Lakes Patrol">Great Lakes Patrol</a></li>

<li><a href="Irene_incident" title="Irene incident"><i>Irene</i> incident</a></li>

<li><a href="Jiajing_wokou_raids" title="Jiajing wokou raids">Jiajing wokou raids</a></li>

<li><a href="Maersk_Alabama_hijacking" title="Maersk Alabama hijacking"><i>Maersk Alabama</i> hijacking</a></li>

<li><a href="MT_Zafirah_hijacking" title="MT Zafirah hijacking">MT <i>Zafirah</i> hijacking</a></li>

<li><a href="MT_Orkim_Harmony_hijacking" title="MT Orkim Harmony hijacking">MT <i>Orkim Harmony</i> hijacking</a></li>

<li><a href="MV_Moscow_University_hijacking" title="MV Moscow University hijacking">MV <i>Moscow University</i> hijacking</a></li>

<li><a href="North_Star_affair" title="North Star affair"><i>North Star</i> affair</a></li>

<li><a href="Operation_Enduring_Freedom_%E2%80%93_Horn_of_Africa" title="Operation Enduring Freedom – Horn of Africa">Operation Enduring Freedom – HOA</a></li>

<li><a href="Operation_Atalanta" title="Operation Atalanta">Operation Atalanta</a></li>

<li><a href="Operation_Dawn_of_Gulf_of_Aden" title="Operation Dawn of Gulf of Aden">Operation Dawn of Gulf of Aden</a></li>

<li><a href="Operation_Dawn_8%3A_Gulf_of_Aden" title="Operation Dawn 8: Gulf of Aden">Operation Dawn 8: Gulf of Aden</a></li>

<li><a href="Operation_Ocean_Shield" title="Operation Ocean Shield">Operation Ocean Shield</a></li>

<li><a href="Persian_Gulf_campaign_of_1809" title="Persian Gulf campaign of 1809">Persian Gulf Campaign</a></li>

<li><a href="Cross_border_attacks_in_Sabah" title="Cross border attacks in Sabah">Pirate attacks in Borneo</a></li>

<li><a href="SY_Quest_incident" title="SY Quest incident"><i>Quest</i> incident</a></li>

<li><a href="Raid_on_Cartagena_(1683)" title="Raid on Cartagena (1683)">Raid on Cartagena</a></li>

<li><a href="Sack_of_Baltimore" title="Sack of Baltimore">Sack of Baltimore</a></li>

<li><a href="Sack_of_Campeche_(1663)" title="Sack of Campeche (1663)">Sack of Campeche</a></li>

<li><a href="Salvador_Pirates" title="Salvador Pirates">Salvador Pirates</a></li>

<li><a href="Slave_raid_of_Su%C3%B0uroy" title="Slave raid of Suðuroy">Slave raid of Suðuroy</a></li>

<li><a href="Turkish_Abductions" title="Turkish Abductions">Turkish Abductions</a></li></ul></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;white-space: normal;">Piracy law</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

<li><a href="Acts_of_grace_(piracy)" title="Acts of grace (piracy)">Acts of grace</a> (<a href="1717%E2%80%931718_Acts_of_Grace" title="1717–1718 Acts of Grace">1717–1718 Acts of Grace</a>)</li>

<li><a href="International_piracy_law" title="International piracy law">International piracy law</a></li>

<li><a href="Letter_of_marque" title="Letter of marque">Letter of marque</a></li>

<li><a href="Paris_Declaration_Respecting_Maritime_Law" title="Paris Declaration Respecting Maritime Law">Paris Declaration Respecting Maritime Law</a></li>

<li><a href="Piracy_Act" title="Piracy Act">Piracy Act</a> (<a href="Offences_at_Sea_Act_1536" title="Offences at Sea Act 1536">1536</a>, <a href="Piracy_Act_1698" title="Piracy Act 1698">1698</a>, <a href="Transportation_Act_1717" class="mw-redirect" title="Transportation Act 1717">1717</a>, <a href="Piracy_Act_1721" title="Piracy Act 1721">1721</a>, <a href="Piracy_Act_1837" title="Piracy Act 1837">1837</a>, <a href="Piracy_Act_1850" title="Piracy Act 1850">1850</a>)</li>

<li><a href="Piracy_Law_of_1820" class="mw-redirect" title="Piracy Law of 1820">Piracy Law of 1820</a></li>

</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;white-space: normal;"><a href="History_of_slavery" title="History of slavery">Slave trade</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

<ul><li><a href="Slavery_in_Africa" title="Slavery in Africa">African slave trade</a></li>

<li><a href="African_Slave_Trade_Patrol" title="African Slave Trade Patrol">African Slave Trade Patrol</a></li>

<li><a href="La_Amistad" title="La Amistad"><i>Amistad</i> Incident</a></li>

<li><a href="Atlantic_slave_trade" title="Atlantic slave trade">Atlantic slave trade</a></li>

<li><a href="Baltic_slave_trade" class="mw-redirect" title="Baltic slave trade">Baltic slave trade</a></li>

<li><a href="Barbary_slave_trade" title="Barbary slave trade">Barbary slave trade</a></li>

<li><a href="Blockade_of_Africa" title="Blockade of Africa">Blockade of Africa</a></li>

<li><a href="Capture_of_the_Veloz_Passagera" title="Capture of the Veloz Passagera">Capture of the <i>Veloz Passagera</i></a></li>

<li><a href="Capture_of_the_brig_Brillante" title="Capture of the brig Brillante">Capture of the brig <i>Brillante</i></a></li>

<li><a href="Indian_Ocean_slave_trade" title="Indian Ocean slave trade">Indian Ocean slave trade</a></li>

<li><a href="Trans-Saharan_slave_trade" title="Trans-Saharan slave trade">Trans-Saharan slave trade</a></li></ul>

</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;white-space: normal;"><a href="Pirates_in_the_arts_and_popular_culture" title="Pirates in the arts and popular culture">Pirates in<br>popular<br>culture</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="List_of_fictional_pirates" title="List of fictional pirates">Fictional pirates</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

<ul><li><a href="Askeladd" title="Askeladd">Askeladd</a></li>

<li><a href="Tom_Ayrton" title="Tom Ayrton">Tom Ayrton</a></li>

<li><a href="Redbeard_(comics)" title="Redbeard (comics)">Barbe Rouge</a></li>

<li><a href="Brook_(One_Piece)" title="Brook (One Piece)">Brook</a></li>

<li><a href="Captain_Birdseye" title="Captain Birdseye">Captain Birdseye</a></li>

<li><a href="Captain_Blood_(novel)" title="Captain Blood (novel)">Captain Blood</a></li>

<li><a href="McDonaldland" title="McDonaldland">Captain Crook</a></li>

<li><a href="Captain_Flint" title="Captain Flint">Captain Flint</a></li>

<li><a href="Captain_Hook" title="Captain Hook">Captain Hook</a></li>

<li><a href="Captain_Nemo" title="Captain Nemo">Captain Nemo</a></li>

<li><a href="Captain_Pugwash" title="Captain Pugwash">Captain Pugwash</a></li>

<li><a href="Captain_Sabertooth" title="Captain Sabertooth">Captain Sabertooth</a></li>

<li><a href="Captain_Stingaree" title="Captain Stingaree">Captain Stingaree</a></li>

<li><a href="Charlotte_de_Berry" title="Charlotte de Berry">Charlotte de Berry</a></li>

<li><a href="Davy_Jones_(Pirates_of_the_Caribbean)" title="Davy Jones (Pirates of the Caribbean)">Davy Jones</a></li>

<li><a href="Edward_Kenway" title="Edward Kenway">Edward Kenway</a></li>

<li><a href="Elaine_Marley" title="Elaine Marley">Elaine Marley</a></li>

<li><a href="Elizabeth_Swann" title="Elizabeth Swann">Elizabeth Swann</a></li>

<li><a href="Franky_(One_Piece)" title="Franky (One Piece)">Franky</a></li>

<li><a href="Guybrush_Threepwood" title="Guybrush Threepwood">Guybrush Threepwood</a></li>

<li><a href="Hector_Barbossa" title="Hector Barbossa">Hector Barbossa</a></li>

<li><a href="Jack_Sparrow" title="Jack Sparrow">Jack Sparrow</a></li>

<li><a href="Jacquotte_Delahaye" title="Jacquotte Delahaye">Jacquotte Delahaye</a></li>

<li><a href="Jimbei" class="mw-redirect" title="Jimbei">Jimbei</a></li>

<li><a href="Jos%C3%A9_Gaspar" title="José Gaspar">José Gaspar</a></li>

<li><a href="Joshamee_Gibbs" title="Joshamee Gibbs">Joshamee Gibbs</a></li>

<li><a href="Long_John_Silver" title="Long John Silver">Long John Silver</a></li>

<li><a href="Monkey_D._Luffy" title="Monkey D. Luffy">Monkey D. Luffy</a></li>

<li><a href="Vaas_Montenegro" title="Vaas Montenegro">Vaas Montenegro</a></li>

<li><a href="Nico_Robin" title="Nico Robin">Nico Robin</a></li>

<li><a href="Roronoa_Zoro" title="Roronoa Zoro">Roronoa Zoro</a></li>

<li><a href="Sandokan" title="Sandokan">Sandokan</a></li>

<li><a href="Sanji_(One_Piece)" title="Sanji (One Piece)">Sanji</a></li>

<li><a href="Tony_Tony_Chopper" title="Tony Tony Chopper">Tony Tony Chopper</a></li>

<li><a href="Usopp" title="Usopp">Usopp</a></li>

<li><a href="Will_Turner" title="Will Turner">Will Turner</a></li>

<li><a href="Yellowbeard" title="Yellowbeard">Yellowbeard</a></li>

<li><a href="Zanzibar_(G.I._Joe)" title="Zanzibar (G.I. Joe)">Zanzibar</a></li></ul>

</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Novels</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

<ul><li><i><a href="The_Pirate_(novel)" title="The Pirate (novel)">The Pirate</a></i></li>

<li><i><a href="The_Pilot%3A_A_Tale_of_the_Sea" title="The Pilot: A Tale of the Sea">The Pilot: A Tale of the Sea</a></i></li>

<li><i><a href="Treasure_Island" title="Treasure Island">Treasure Island</a></i></li>

<li><i><a href="Facing_the_Flag" title="Facing the Flag">Facing the Flag</a></i></li>

<li><i><a href="On_Stranger_Tides" title="On Stranger Tides">On Stranger Tides</a></i></li>

<li><i><a href="Jim_Hawkins_and_the_Curse_of_Treasure_Island" title="Jim Hawkins and the Curse of Treasure Island">Jim Hawkins and the Curse of Treasure Island</a></i></li>

<li><i><a href="Castaways_of_the_Flying_Dutchman" title="Castaways of the Flying Dutchman">Castaways of the Flying Dutchman</a></i></li>

<li><i><a href="The_Angel's_Command" title="The Angel's Command">The Angel's Command</a></i></li>

<li><i><a href="Voyage_of_Slaves" title="Voyage of Slaves">Voyage of Slaves</a></i></li>

<li><i><a href="Long_John_Silver_(comics)" title="Long John Silver (comics)">Long John Silver</a></i></li>

<li><i><a href="Pirate_Latitudes" title="Pirate Latitudes">Pirate Latitudes</a></i></li>

<li><i><a href="Mistress_of_the_Seas" title="Mistress of the Seas">Mistress of the Seas</a></i></li>

<li><i><a href="Silver_(Motion_novel)" title="Silver (Motion novel)">Silver: Return to Treasure Island</a></i></li></ul>

</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Tropes</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

<ul><li><a href="Buried_treasure" title="Buried treasure">Buried treasure</a></li>

<li><a href="Davy_Jones's_locker" title="Davy Jones's locker">Davy Jones's locker</a></li>

<li><a href="Eyepatch" title="Eyepatch">Eyepatch</a></li>

<li><a href="Jolly_Roger" title="Jolly Roger">Jolly Roger</a>

<ul><li><a href="Skull_and_crossbones_(symbol)" class="mw-redirect" title="Skull and crossbones (symbol)">skull and crossbones</a></li></ul></li>

<li><a href="Keelhauling" title="Keelhauling">Keelhauling</a></li>

<li><a href="Marooning" title="Marooning">Marooning</a></li>

<li><a href="No_purchase%2C_no_pay" title="No purchase, no pay">No purchase, no pay</a></li>

<li><a href="Pegleg" class="mw-redirect" title="Pegleg">Pegleg</a></li>

<li><a href="Companion_parrot" title="Companion parrot">Pet parrot</a></li>

<li><a href="Pirate_utopia" title="Pirate utopia">Pirate utopia</a></li>

<li><a href="Treasure_map" title="Treasure map">Treasure map</a></li>

<li><a href="Walking_the_plank" title="Walking the plank">Walking the plank</a></li></ul>

</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Miscellaneous</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

<ul><li><a href="Air_pirate" title="Air pirate">Air pirate</a></li>

<li><a href="List_of_space_pirates" title="List of space pirates">Space pirate</a></li>

<li><a href="International_Talk_Like_a_Pirate_Day" title="International Talk Like a Pirate Day">International Talk Like a Pirate Day</a></li>

<li><a href="Pirates_versus_Ninjas" title="Pirates versus Ninjas">Pirates versus Ninjas</a></li></ul>

</div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;white-space: normal;">Miscellaneous</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

<ul><li><i><a href="A_General_History_of_the_Pyrates" title="A General History of the Pyrates">A General History of the Pyrates</a></i>

<ul><li><a href="Captain_Charles_Johnson" title="Captain Charles Johnson">Captain Charles Johnson</a></li></ul></li>

<li><a href="Truce_of_Ratisbon" title="Truce of Ratisbon">Truce of Ratisbon</a></li>

<li><a href="Pirate_Round" title="Pirate Round">Pirate Round</a></li></ul>

<ul><li><a href="Mutiny" title="Mutiny">Mutiny</a></li>

<li><a href="Matelotage" title="Matelotage">Matelotage</a></li>

<li><a href="Piracy_kidnappings" title="Piracy kidnappings">Piracy kidnappings</a></li></ul>

</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;white-space: normal;">Lists</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

<ul><li><a href="List_of_pirates" title="List of pirates">Pirates</a></li>

<li><a href="List_of_pirate_films_and_television_series" title="List of pirate films and television series">Pirate films and TV series</a></li>

<li><a href="List_of_privateers" title="List of privateers">Privateers</a></li>

<li><a href="List_of_ships_attacked_by_Somali_pirates" title="List of ships attacked by Somali pirates">List of ships attacked by Somali pirates</a></li>

<li><a href="Timeline_of_piracy" title="Timeline of piracy">Timeline of piracy</a></li>

<li><a href="Women_in_piracy" title="Women in piracy">Women in piracy</a></li></ul>

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<ul><li><span class="nowrap"><span class="skin-invert-image noviewer" typeof="mw:File"><span></span></span> </span><a href="Portal%3APiracy" title="Portal:Piracy">Piracy portal</a></li>

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