PIRATES

ok fingers crossed next week will be nxt epsiode  thats june 6th 7 th hopefully   Ok I am back,  found it a little difficult since been back,  but things on a little more even  Keel and I hope new episode will be out soon      A dash across america then next episiode out in may 10 fiveofthebest.podomatic.com     The Flag of John "Calico Jack" RackhamOpenclipart.orgJohn "Calico Jack" Rackham had a short and largely unimpressive pirate career between 1718 and 1720. Today, he is really only remembered for two reasons. First of all, he had two female pirates on his ship: Anne Bonny and Mary Read. It caused quite a scandal that women could take up pistols and cutlasses and fight and swear their way into full membership on a pirate vessel! The second reason was his very cool pirate flag: a black jack that showed a skull over crossed cutlasses. In spite of the fact that other pirates were more successful, his flag has gained fame as "the" pirate flag.     The Flag of Bartholomew "Black Bart" Roberts, Part OneIf you go by loot alone, Henry Avery was the most successful pirate of his time, but if you go by number of ships captured, then Bartholomew "Black Bart" Roberts beats him by a nautical mile. Black Bart captured some 400 ships in his three-year career, in which he ranged from Brazil to Newfoundland, to the Caribbean and Africa   6. The Flag of Stede Bonnet, "The Gentleman Pirate"Ever notice how some people just seem to wind up in the wrong line of work? During the Golden Age of Piracy, Stede Bonnet was one such man. A wealthy planter from Barbados, Bonnet got sick of his nagging wife. He did the only logical thing: he bought a ship, hired some men and sailed out to become a pirate. The only problem was that he didn't know one end of the ship from the other!     edward" Teach or BlackbeardIf you were sailing about in the Caribbean or southeastern coast of North America in 1718 and saw a ship flying a black flag with a white, horned skeleton holding an hourglass and spearing a heart, you were in trouble. The captain of the ship was none other than Edward "Blackbeard" Thatch, the most infamous pirate of his generation   Ann Bonney   1702  1782 While in the Bahamas, Bonny began mingling with pirates in the local taverns. She met Jack "Calico Jack" Rackham, captain of the pirate sloop Revenge, and became his mistress. They had a child in Cuba, who eventually took the name of Cunningham. Many different theories state that he was left with his family or simply abandoned. Bonny rejoined Rackham and continued the pirate life   Bartholomew Roberts   Black Bart Nickname    Black Bart (Welsh: Barti Ddu)Type    PirateBorn    17 May 1682Place of birth    Casnewydd Bach, Pembrokeshire, WalesDied    10 February 1722 (aged 39)Place of death    At sea off Cape Lopez, GabonYears active    1719-1722Rank    CaptainBase of operations    Off the coast of the Americas and West AfricaCommands    Royal Rover, Good Fortune, Royal Fortune, Ranger, Little RangerWealth    470 vessels;          Equiv. US $35.1 million today;[1] #5 Forbes top-earning pirates[2]     Stede Bonnet   Stede Bonnet was an early 18th-century Barbadian pirate, sometimes called "the gentleman pirate" because he was a moderately wealthy landowner before turning to a life of crime. Bonnet was born into a wealthy English family on the island of Barbados, and inherited the family estate after his father's death in 1694. In 1709   Bonnet set sail for Nassau, Bahamas, but he was seriously wounded en route during an encounter with a Spanish warship. After arriving in Nassau, Bonnet met Edward Teach, the infamous pirate Blackbeard. Incapable of leading his crew, Bonnet temporarily ceded his ship's command to Blackbeard. Before separating in December 1717   Blackbeard  It was during this cruise with Hornigold that the earliest known report of Teach was made, in which he is recorded as a pirate in his own right, in command of a large crew. In a report made by a Captain Mathew Munthe on an anti-piracy patrol for North Carolina, "Thatch" was described as operating "a sloop 6 gunns [sic] and about 70 men".[13] In September Teach and Hornigold encountered Stede Bonnet, a landowner and military officer from a wealthy family who had turned to piracy earlier that year. Bonnet's crew of about 70 were reportedly dissatisfied with his command, so with Bonnet's permission, Teach took control of his ship Revenge