Pirates

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Pirates

• By Peter Quigley

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Pirates did terrible things.Pirates did
terrible things.

• They killed people
• They sank ships
• They stole treasure
• They tortured people

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fun part was raiding ships.
A pirates life was boring. The only

• They had to scrub the deck
• They had to raise the sails
• They had to steer the ship

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Pirates had many weapons.

• They had cutlasses- smaller swords
• They had pistols
• They had swords
• They had axs
• They had daggers

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There were lots of famous pirates.

• Captain Kidd
• Bartholomew Roberts (Black Bart)
• Edward Teach (Blackbeard)

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There are lots of different pirate ships.
There are 29 different kinds of pirate ships.
Here are 4 of them. (from http//pirateshold.bucca
neersoft.com/pirate_ships.html)
Brig - a two masted ship, square rigged on both
masts, in the 18th century it would have been
roughly the same as a Brigantine.
 Caravel - 14th to 17th century cargo ship, the
Mediterranean version was lateen rigged on two
masts, while the Spanish and Portuguese versions
were three masted with the first two masts square
rigged and the mizzen lateen rigged
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Carrack - 16th to 17th century vessel, three
masted with the first two square rigged, carrying
up to 1,200 tons of cargo, used by the Spanish
and Portuguese in their long voyages to the East
Indies .
Dhow - 150 to 200 ton merchant with a single
lateen sail used by Arab pirates in the Red Sea
and Indian Ocean
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A map of the caribbean.
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There were lots of pirate flags.
This flag belonged to E. Teach (Blackbeard.)
This flag belonged to J. Rackham.
This flag belonged to H. Avery.
This flag belonged to C. Condent.
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A pirate had a weird diet.

• They ate tack biscuits.
• They drank rum.
• They ate bread and rarely meat.
• They ate almost no fruits and vegetables.

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Pirates started in 1200 B.C.

• There are still pirates today.