Pirates Diary

Stanford Joines Excerpted from The Eighth Flag  One of the most well-known Buccaneers to have walked the beaches of St. Thomas and St. Croix was Francis Drake. Drake was the first of 12 sons born to a Protestant preacher in 1540 in then Catholic England. Father Drake apprenticed his son to the master of a small channel trading ship. When the master died, he left the vessel to 15-year old Francis. After selling it, Francis sailed with his cousin John Hawkins in three expeditio

A.J. Pike      Caribbean Ocean: Golden Age of Piracy -  Pirates lived by their own set of rules. There was no twelve man jury, no Old...

Pirate Scandals encompasses a range of historical events and tales involving piracy, often involving acts of violence, theft, and...

A.J. Pike Columbia, S.A. - Treasure Hunters have confirmed the Columbia location of the fabled wreck of the Spanish Galleon San Jose with...

Many former pirates became privateers during the course of the War of the Quadruple Alliance, which was fought between Spain and Britain,...

There was a “Golden Age of Piracy,” but piracy dates back to ancient times For as long as there have been ships, there have been...

From the viewpoint of today’s Hollywood filmmakers, the Pirates of old need to be portrayed, for the sake of the box office, as either murderous, unforgivable villains, children’s characters like Captain Hook in Peter Pan, or Johnny Depp’s somewhat lovable Captain Jack Sparrow in the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise. Once in a blue moon, a show like the superb Netflix series Black Sails comes along and tries to make an honest attempt at setting the record straight when it c