Read many pirate histories when I was but a lad, and came to know a few.
Anne Bonny is my favorite.
Yours?
Who's Your Favorite Real Life Pirate?
@dasourf said in Who's Your Favorite Real Life Pirate?:
hello, I prefer Emmanuel Wynne for the probable invention of jolly roger and I am french ^^
He's my second favorite. :)
Oh would probably have to choose BlackBeard. He had a good ship, a smart mind and an amazing image. Ashame about the whole headless thing though...
Still, swimming headless around the ship is one impressive feat! lol
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Henry Morgan, just read about this guy, he's a legend =)
(the Red/Black Clothing just rocks ... and I the love the Spiced Rum named after him ;)oh and Robert Surcouf!
he was a French Privateer in the Indian Ocean and there is this one Story I just LOVE about him :*Napoleon proposes to the corsair Surcouf the command of the French naval forces,
but this one refuses that one does not grant him the independence of total maneuver which he claims:Napoleon: "I will make you a rich man!"
Surcouf: "I already have everything I need: my cabinet plastered with gold coins" (with Napoleons face on it)
Napoleon (offended): "How? But you're walking on my face! "
Surcouf: "No sir, I arranged them on the thin edge ..."*and this Quote :
Surcouf in Saint-MaloDiscussing with a British officer:
"You French fight for money, while we British fight for honour."
"Sir, a man fights for what he lacks the most."You just have to love this Guy =)
@drayman86 hahaha mines Anne Bonny too, i'm actually planning on naming my ship The Bonny Lass as a subtle nod to her xD
@drayman86 The Great Black Bart, Bartholomew Roberts of course.
A teetotalling, democratic, cunning and respectful pirate who rose through the ranks quickly from captive to captain.
He was almost the most successful pirate to ever live, who captured over 400 ships.
Arrrrrr!
Surprised no one mentioned Ching Shih.
tl;dr version is that she was a Chinese pirate who commanded over 80,000 outlaws, did the usual pirate things you'd normally expect, beheaded any members who were insubordinate on the spot, fought the Qing dynasty (the official government in China at the time)'s ships and won, causing them to pay Portuguese and British bounty hunters to try to stop her. After years of fighting these bounty hunters, she eventually was able to sign an amnesty agreement, retire and live out her days peacefully in her hometown of Guangzhou with all her loot intact.
If that is not an ideal pirate role model, I don't know what is.
@kustho said in Who's Your Favorite Real Life Pirate?:
The guy no one talks about.
The one that made a fortune, is found in no book and got really really old.My favorite is Henry Every who seems to fit your description. Very intelligent navigator which made him very successful. Then he lived to a ripe old age.
@madscallion
Henery Morgan is by far the best pirate. He is responsible for keeping America, an English Based Nation. If it was not for him, America would be a Spanish nation.
He is also a B**f, his Seige of Panama city is Barbaric and legendary.
Not to mention his ship... The Victory...
He is not called the "Terror of the Spanish Main " for nothing...
Hayreddin "Redbeard" Barbarossa
he didn't just have his own fleet -- he had his own damn country.How big of a deal did this guy become? Let's put it this way: At one point, Barbarossa single-handedly defeated the combined forces of Venice, the Vatican, Genoa, Spain, Portugal and Malta during the Battle of Preveza (1538), and by "single-handedly" we mean it was just him and 122 ships he commanded.
Btw it would be awesome to add that hat in the game as cosmetic.
Abduwali Muse Captain of four pirates (Real acting name: Barkhad Abdi)
The true story of Captain Richard Phillips and the 2009 hijacking by Somali pirates of the U.S.-flagged MV Maersk Alabama, the first American cargo ship to be hijacked in two hundred years.
Why? He is living the sea of thieves dream, currently sent to the brig for 33 years.
William Dampier.
He never mean to become a pirate, though circumstances made him one.
He circumnavigated the world 4 times. Invented tide charts and mapped tidal movements every where he went. He was the first person to map Australia. One of his shipmates had an argument with the then captain of the ship and was marooned on an island near Curacus. The first thing Dampier did when he took command of his own ship was go and rescue his old shipmate. He later met Charles Darwin and told him about the marooning, and his travels. Charles had a friend called dufoe. Dampiers story was the inspiration behind the writing of Robinson Cruso.
When Darwin asked what he thought about flamingos, he replied "They taste Exquisite."@captain-bumfish said in Who's Your Favorite Real Life Pirate?:
@dislex-fx said in Who's Your Favorite Real Life Pirate?:
aXXo. By far.
Hahahaha! Yes, this. 👍🏻 +1
I admit to not knowing much at all about real life pirates, so I jumped on Wikipedia briefly to do a bit of research. I was quickly drawn to Gan Ning, a Chinese pirate (later turned legitimate military general) who operated around 2000 years ago. I read a bit about his pirate crew, and they sound like they would have fit right in to the world of SoT. Among other things, they wore bells on their clothes to attract attention wherever they went, and tied their boats to jetties using silk, then just cut the silk and left it behind to show off their wealth. Boss move IMO :D
No contest.
Klaus Stortebeker, leader of the Likedeelers or 'Victual Brothers,' German privateers. His surname means 'empty the mug with one gulp.'
When he was captured and taken to Hamburg with his seventy men, he offered to give the mayor a chain of gold that could encircle the city if they let him and his crew go. The mayor refused, and sentenced the pirates to be executed. Stortebeker requested that the mayor line up his men and spare every man he managed to walk past AFTER being beheaded. The executioner took up his axe, Stortebeker knelt, and they cut off his head. Immediately his corpse stood up and staggered past eleven of his men before the headsmen stuck out his foot and tripped him.
Supposedly when they dismantled his ship, they found that each of the three masts had a metal core, one of gold, one of copper, and one of silver. They used them to make St. Catherine's Church in Hamburg.
Abduwali Muse Captain of four pirates (Real acting name: Barkhad Abdi)
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