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Battle of Nam Quan

A Royal Navy sloop-of-war encountered eight pirate ships near Nam Quan and defeated them in a decisive action with help from armed Chinese civilians on land.


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1700 in piracy

July 18 - In the Cape Verde islands, Emanuel Wynn's pirate ship engages and escapes HMS Poole under Capt. John Cranby; this is the first recorded piratical use of the skull and crossbones flag.

Bayou La Batre, Alabama

In April 2005, Disney Studios launched a secretly built pirate ship, the Black Pearl, out of Bayou La Batre for filming sequels to Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl.

Capture of the William

The Capture of the William refers to a small single ship action fought between Calico Jack's pirate ship and a British sloop-of-war from Port Royal, Jamaica.

Carlos Eugénio Correia da Silva, Count of Paço de Arcos

As a 27 year old second lieutenant in 1862 the Count of Paço d'Arcos also commanded the schooner Napier in pursuit of the US confederate pirate ship CSS Alabama in the mid Atlantic near the Azores.

Columbia Rediviva

This replica also plays a prominent role in the night time show Fantasmic, dressed to appear as Captain Hook's pirate ship.

David Cordingly

Cordingly appears on the Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl DVD bonus features in a section called "Below Deck", a virtual tour of a pirate ship.

Demon's World

The game then changes course, moving to a ghostly pirate ship and then the haunted American Old West, featuring a ghost town and a canyon inhabited by traditional ghosts and monsters familiar to western culture like Frankenstein's monster, Dracula, and even Jason Voorhees look-alikes.

Rooibaardt

They all lived in Bethlehem in the Free State province of South Africa The name of the band came to them in their "pirate ship", a Volkswagen Combi, on the way to the first gig.

The Boy and the Pirates

The story line, that of a little boy and girl trapped on the pirate ship of Blackbeard, ranges from comical at times to downright gruesome.

The Galerider

Featuring in The Quint Saga, The Galerider is a Sky Pirate ship that saw at least four captains before its destruction in Clash of the Sky Galleons.

Thomas G. Fuller

The Britannia Yacht Club has used the tug, rigged as a pirate ship known as STV Black Jack since 1983 to train young people to sail through the Bytown Brigantine Inc.

Wellfleet, Massachusetts

The wreck was discovered in 1984, and is to date only the second pirate ship ever discovered, Blackbeard's Queen Anne's Revenge having been found off the coast of North Carolina.

Whydah Gally

On 27 May 2007 a UK documentary/reality show titled Pirate Ship ... Live! followed a team of divers, including comedian Vic Reeves, in live coverage of a dive at the Whydah site.