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Pirqte ships Life on boord Pirote weopons Fernole pirotes Pirqte treosure Pirqte lows Life qshore A pirqte's fote Fornous pirotes Fontqstic fqcts Amqzing pirote owords Glossory Index pa

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Contents

Whot ore pirotes?

Pirqte ships Life on boord Pirote weopons

Fernole pirotes Pirqte treosure Pirqte lows

Life qshore

A pirqte's fote

Fornous pirotes

Fontqstic fqcts

Amqzing pirote owords

Glossory Index

page 6 8 10 L2 L4 16 18

20 22 24 26 28 30

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Turn to the glossory to leorn qbout them.

Whot dre pirdtes?

The word pirote meons 'ottocker'.

Pirotes were men, ond Sometimes

women, who coptured merchcrnt

ships They stole o ship's treqsure

ond goods, plus sometimes

the ship os well.

ships corried o lot of

gold qnd treqsure

Pirotes who

coptured these

ships could

become very rich,

very quickly

ships didn't just

coruy gold They

were decorqted

with it, too!

Pirates fought

fiercely They could olso be very cruel to coptured soilors

Others were smoll, with just o few

guns ond o smoll crew Smoll ships

were colled sloops or cutters.

Pirote ships come in mony shopes

ond srzes Some were big, with over

twenty ctrnnons ond 200 men.

Pirqte copto.ins flew frightening flogs on their

ships These were used

merchont ships, so they would surrender without

o fight Pirete flags were cqlled Jolly rogers'

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Lorge pirote ships ottocked big merchont ships corrying mony goods.

Thot meont more treosure

for the pirotes!

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Stede Bonnet's flog

Henry Avery's flog

Pirqtes sqng shcrnties to

keep time with eqch other

os they worked

Pirdte wedPonS

Pirotes usuolly tried to boord

o merchont shiP, rother thon

dctmoge it in bqttle TheY fought

Pirqtes used cD(es to help them climb up o ship's

wooden sides.

the crew with swords cqlled

cutlcrsses ond doggers.

In bqttle, pirote shiPs fired

cqnnonbcrlls of merchqnt shiPs'

The botls ripped through soils qnd

rigging The domoge to its scrils

stopped the shiP from

soiling owoy.

Spiked pieces of metol shoped like

o storfish were thrown onto the

deck of q merchont ship They were colled crow's feet ond coused

terrible injuries if

Femole pirdtes

Most women only went to seo to be

with their soilor husbqnds However,

cr few of these women joined pirote

pirotes The most

fqmous femole

pirotes were

Anne Bonny

qnd Mory Reqd.

heod scorf

Women were not

usuolly qllowed

on pirote ships

They dressed

in men's

clothes to Alf,

dissuise f

themselves

woist sqsh

shoel

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Anne Bonny ond Mory Reod

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British norr5r.

Mory died in

prison, but Anne

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Pirdte tredsure

Pirotes stole oll sorts of things,

but gold ond treosure were most

vqluoble Pirotes qlso stole goods

such os socks of rice ond sugor,

bqrrels of molqsses or dried fish

ond even cloth Pirotes sold the

goods when they sailed into port.

Pirotes often wore foncy,

brightly coloured clothes

They bought them with

the money they stole

Pirotes stole ony coins they could find Doubloons were coins mqde from heovy gold Pieces of eight were smoller

coins mode from silver

Only q few pirotes buried

their treqsure

Most spent it

Pirdte lows

Articles were rules thot pirotes

ogreed to before they could join

treqsure would be divided up

qnd how pirotes should behove.

Pirotes were punished if they

broke the rules especiolly if

they stole from crnother pirote.

One punishment wos colled

'wolking the plonk' Pirotes

were mqde to jump into the

Sometimes pirotes were left on lcrr-owoy islonds on their own This

1runishment wos colled morooning

Treqsure wqs divided

: ' of q trip Often, o

blindfolded pirote

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Life clShore

Pirotes soiled into ports to find

food ond wotey, ond to repoir

their ships They olso sold their

treosure in ports Pirotes hod to

be coreful oshore If they were

Pirqtes hod fun in ports They

spent the money they rnode of seo

on wild porties, food ond drink!

bcrrnccles grew on

the bottom of pirote ships They were scroped off the ship while it wos qshore

Modogoscor is on

islond off the coost

of Africo Between

1680 ond L7L0, it

becqme o pirqte islond Pirotes set

up home there

with their fqmilies

rll of their money when

I hey come qshore

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A pirdte's f ate

lucky They mode

o lot of money ond

retired to enjoy it.

Others were not so

fortunote Some

died in bottle or

were killed by

other pirotes If

cought, pirotes were

punished horribly.

Coptured pirotes were usuolly

honged Sometimes their bodies

were put in ct metql frqme 0s o

worning to other pirotes This wos

known os being hung in irons

Pirotes were often

meosured to fit their frome

before they were honged

o Sometimes, pirotes

were brqnded os o

punishment This meqnt being burned

with o hot iron shope,

to mork them for life

pillory

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Pillories were wooden boords thot

held people by their wrists ond necks

Pirotes were choined to them so

people could throw things of them,

or coll them nornes.

Edwqrd Low wqs such o cruel

coptoin thot his own crew set

him crdrift in o rowing boot

with no food ond woter!

Ching Shih wos the wife of q Chinese pirote coptain When he died, she took control of his crew qnd becqme o.n even greoter coptoin thqn her husbond Ching Shih ruled 1,800 ships qnd

their crews, ond stole treosure from everywhere

olong the coost of Chino ;i;

Fontostic facts

Sometimes pirote

ships flew o red

flog The flog told

other ships thqt the

pirotes would fight

to the deqth qnd kill

everyone on boord

Pirqtes were not

qllowed to steql from eqch other

If they did, their eors ond nose

were cut off 0s q punishment

A pirote crew could use their coptoin's

cobin whenever they wqnted

Blqckbeqrd's fovourite drink wqs rum

mixed with gunpowder!

Pirqte ccptoins poid their crew for ony injuries received in bottle

A finger or tln eye could be worth

100 silver pieces Some pirotes moy

hove been poid 600 silver pieces for

on injured leg or orm

Christopher Moody's flog

If they didn't

like their

coptoin, pirote

crews could vote

for q new one.

Eqch pirote coptoin designed

his own flog

O Coptured pirotes were not olwoys honged Some were pordoned Thqt meqnt their king forgcve them

o Coptoin Kidd mode qbout two million pounds

crs q pirote He wos one of the richest pirotes

a shipurecked or morooned pirotes often found very little food on desert islcrnds Rqther thqn storve, they sometimes ote

their belongings, or eoch other!

In 1695 pirote coptoin Henry Avery stole qll the treqsure on boqrd the

Gang -I- Sawai It wqs worth

qbout I40 million pounds in

todoy's money!

pirote friend Chqrles Vqne

threw o porty for their crews

It lqsted for over q week!

Edword Englond's crew thought he wcrs too kind

They socked him ond left him

on o desert islond!

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Just one hour ofter John Eoton become o pirote, he

wos coptured by the no\y

He wos honged for being

port of q pirote crew.

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The Royal Fortune wos the most powerful pirqte ship

It wqs o worship ond hod

52 guns

Johnny Bleord become q.

pirote when he wqs just

13 yeors old!

Closso ry

adrift - when someone is

orrested - to be held in

barnocles - smqll onimols

that con glue themselves to

ccnnon - o big gun thqt

fires metql bqlls.

cdnnonboll - q metol bolt

fired from o cqnnon.

cutlosS-oheorysword

with q short blode.

desert island - on islond

thqt no one lives on.

gomble - to bet money,

or possessions.

goods - onything thqt con

clothes ond furniture

gunpowder - o powder

thqt mokes explosions

inlet - where the seo

reoches further inlond thon

merchant shiF - q ship thot

molasses - q type of thick, dork syrup.

ncvy - soilors ond ships

thot work for the king or

port - o town next to

retire - when someone stops working

rigging - ropes thot hold

up mosts.

Shanty - o song thot hos o

shipwrecked - when o ship

is destroyed ond the crew ore forced to qbondon it

tricrl - when o court heors

how tr person hqs broken the

wcrrship - o ship built to fight

Index

A

orticles Avery Henry

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Blockbeqrd 9,24,26,28

Bonny, Anne L4-L5

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ccrnnons 8, 12,80

connonbolls LZ, B0

clothes 10, 14, 16

cutlqsses L2, g0 D

desert islqnds 27, 28, B0

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flogs g, 26-27

food 11, lG, 20,25,27

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gombling ZL, B0

gold G-7, I6-L7

guns 8,29

gunpowder 2G,90 L

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mcrooning 19,27 merchont ships G-7,8-9,

12-13, 30 Moody, Christopher 26 ltt

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pirote ships 8-9, 10-11,

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punishment 1b, 18-19,

22-23,26-27

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s shonties Shih, Ching shipwrecks

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treosure 6, 8, I6-L7, Lg,

20,29

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worships weevils

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27, 30

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From ships qnd scurvy to crews qnd cutlqsses, this book is pdcked with fqscinqting fqcts lor

qll children who dre mqd obout pirotes.

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