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M@d @b@@t"@q -o PlII rdtes = -o ll rq &Wed This leook lcelongs to: qbout Pf r.cttes written by Rupert Motthews illustroted by Sue Hendro ond Poul Linnet * \r consultont: Bob Rees Contents page Whot ore pirotes? Pirqte ships Life on boord Pirote weopons Fernole pirotes Pirqte treosure Pirqte lows Life qshore A pirqte's fote Fornous pirotes Fontqstic fqcts Amqzing pirote owords Glossory Index 10 L2 L4 16 18 20 22 24 26 28 30 31 A cotologue record for this book is ovoiloble from the British Librory Published by Lodyblrd Books Ltd BO Strond London WC2R ORL A Penguin ComPonY 2468l09z53l O LADYBIRD ond the LADYBIRD BOOKS LTD MMVIII d"ui." of o Lodybird ore irodemorks of Lodybird Books Produced by Colcium for Lodybird Books All rights reserved No port of this publicotion moy be reproduced' ony meons' stored ii o retrievol system, or tronsmitled in ony form or by electronic, mechonicol, photocopying, recording or otherwise' without the prior consent of the copyright owner' ISBN-l 3:9781 84646 923 Printed in Chino Ltd Ltd Some words qppeff in bold in this book Turn to the glossory to leorn qbout them Whot dre pirdtes? The word pirote meons 'ottocker' Pirotes were men, ond Sometimes women, who coptured merchcrnt ships They stole o ship's treqsure ond goods, plus sometimes the ship os well Some merchant ships didn't just coruy gold They were decorqted with it, too! Some lorge merchqnt ships corried o lot of gold qnd treqsure Pirotes who coptured these ships could become very rich, very quickly Pirates fought fiercely They could olso be very cruel to coptured soilors Pirdte ships Pirqte copto.ins flew frightening flogs on their Pirote ships come in mony shopes ond srzes Some were big, with over twenty ctrnnons ond 200 men Others were smoll, with just o few guns ond o smoll crew Smoll ships were colled sloops or cutters / n*) ,ff, ' 214' {fl ,/, I \ ,) ,: ships These were used to scqre the crews of merchont ships, so they would surrender without o fight Pirete flags were cqlled Jolly rogers' Henry Avery's flog Lorge pirote ships ottocked big merchont ships corrying mony goods Thot meont more treosure for the pirotes! Stede Bonnet's flog Blockbeqrd's flog Thomos ! -r if , rf i.,tr :i."r: r.-Jr1.:- :r1 -J:.iir ll "# r i '.1'eL ' hove o colnputer, you downloocl o poster pirote flogs from www.lodybird.com/modobout sloop lorge pirote ship Ioops or cutters were smqll enough , hide inlet - in inlets, but they could only It,ock smoll merchqnt boots I Pirqtes sqng shcrnties to keep time with eqch other os they worked Pirqtes used cD(es to help them climb up o ship's Pirdte wedPonS Pirotes usuolly tried to boord o merchont shiP, rother thon dctmoge it in bqttle TheY fought the crew with swords cqlled cutlcrsses ond doggers wooden sides In bqttle, pirote shiPs fired cqnnonbcrlls of merchqnt shiPs' The botls ripped through soils qnd rigging The domoge to its scrils stopped the shiP from soiling owoy Spiked pieces of metol shoped like o storfish were thrown onto the deck of q merchont ship They were colled crow's feet ond coused terrible injuries if someone trod on them Femole pirdtes Most women only went to seo to be with their soilor husbqnds However, cr few of these women joined pirote crews ond become pirotes The most fqmous femole pirotes were Anne Bonny ond Mory Reod fought with o crew run by heod scorf Anne Bonny qnd Mory Reqd //r Women were not usuolly qllowed on pirote ships They dressed in men's to dissuise f themselves clothes woist sqsh { Alf, - L4 shoel I Anne Bo MoryReqd Mory ond Anne were eventuolly cought by the British norr5r Mory died in prison, but Anne wcrs loter releqsed stocking Jqck Rqckhqm I ""[ Pirdte tredsure Pirotes stole oll sorts of things, but gold ond treosure were most vqluoble Pirotes qlso stole goods such os socks of rice ond sugor, bqrrels of molqsses or dried fish ond even cloth Pirotes sold the goods when they sailed into port Pirotes stole ony coins they could find Doubloons were coins mqde from heovy gold Pieces of eight were smoller coins mode from silver Pirotes often wore foncy, brightly coloured clothes They bought them with the money they stole Only q few pirotes buried their treqsure Most spent it Pirdte lows Articles were rules thot pirotes ogreed to before they could join o crew The rules explqined how treqsure would be divided up qnd how pirotes should behove Pirotes were punished if they broke the rules especiolly if they stole from crnother pirote Treqsure wqs divided piles qt the end : i !':- into : ' of q trip Often, o blindfolded pirote chose who got eqch pile One punishment wos colled 'wolking the plonk' Pirotes were mqde to jump into the oceon - then the ship scriled owqy! Sometimes pirotes were left on lcrr-owoy islonds on their own This 1runishment wos colled morooning 19 Life clShore Seoweed qnd bcrrnccles grew on the bottom of pirote ships They were Pirotes soiled into ports to find food ond wotey, ond to repoir their ships They olso sold their treosure in ports Pirotes hod to be coreful oshore If they were cctught, they could be orrested ond put on scroped off the ship while it wos qshore Modogoscor is on islond off the coost of Africo Between 1680 ond L7L0, it becqme o pirqte triql islond Pirotes set up home there with their fqmilies Pirqtes hod fun in ports They spent the money they rnode of seo on wild porties, food ond drink! Some pirotes gombled rll of their money when I hey come qshore 2L o A pirdte's f ate Some pirotes were lucky They mode o lot of money ond retired to enjoy it Sometimes, pirotes were brqnded os o punishment This meqnt being burned with o hot iron shope, to mork them for life Others were not so fortunote Some died in bottle or were killed by other pirotes If cought, pirotes were punished horribly pillory h Coptured pirotes were usuolly honged Sometimes their bodies were put in ct metql frqme 0s o worning to other pirotes This wos known os being in irons Pirotes were often meosured to fit their frome before they were honged 22 metol frorne il Pillories were wooden boords thot held people by their wrists ond necks Pirotes were choined to them so people could throw things of them, or coll them nornes 23 Edwqrd Low wqs such o cruel coptoin thot his own crew set him crdrift in o rowing boot with no food ond woter! Ching Shih wos the wife of q Chinese pirote coptain When he died, she took control of his crew qnd becqme o.n even greoter coptoin thqn her husbond Ching Shih ruled 1,800 ships qnd their crews, ond stole treosure from everywhere olong the coost of Chino ;i; Fontostic facts If they didn't like their coptoin, pirote Sometimes pirote ships flew o red crews could vote for q new one flog The flog told other ships thqt the Eqch pirote pirotes would fight to the deqth qnd kill coptoin designed his own flog everyone on boord Christopher Moody's flog Pirqtes were not qllowed to steql from eqch other If they did, their eors ond nose were cut off 0s q punishment A pirote crew could use their coptoin's cobin whenever they wqnted Blqckbeqrd's fovourite drink wqs rum mixed with gunpowder! Pirqte ccptoins poid their crew for ony injuries received in bottle A finger or tln eye could be worth 100 silver pieces Some pirotes moy hove been poid 600 silver pieces for on injured leg or orm O Coptured pirotes were not olwoys honged Some were pordoned Thqt meqnt their king forgcve them o Coptoin Kidd mode qbout two million pounds crs q pirote He wos one of the richest pirotes a shipurecked or morooned pirotes often found very little food on desert islcrnds Rqther thqn storve, they sometimes ote their belongings, or eoch other! Am o'zi n9 pirdte dwdrds In 1695 pirote coptoin Henry Avery stole qll the treqsure on boqrd the Gang -I- Sawai It wqs worth qbout I40 million pounds in todoy's money! The Royal Fortune wos the most powerful pirqte ship It wqs o worship ond hod 52 guns * In sh@ffir@st c@m@@m Just one hour ofter John Eoton become o pirote, he wos coptured by the no\y He wos honged for being port of q pirote crew 17L8 Blockbeord qnd his pirote friend Chqrles Vqne threw o porty for their crews It lqsted for over q week! Edword Englond's crew thought he wcrs too kind They socked him ond left him on o desert islond! { Johnny Bleord become q pirote when he wqs just 13 yeors old! Closso ry Index adrift - when someone is put in o boot ond left of merchant shiF - q ship thot conies goods A orticles prison for breoking the lqw molasses - q type of thick, dork syrup seo orrested - to be held in tr 18 Avery Henry 9,28 barnocles - smqll onimols ncvy - soilors ond ships B that glue themselves to thot work for the king or Blockbeqrd 9,24,26,28 rocks qnd ships government of o country ccnnon - o big gun thqt port - o town next to fires metql bqlls retire - when Bonny, Zg g Anne q metol bolt fired from o cqnnon someone stops working cutlosS-oheorysword with q short blode desert island - on islond thqt no one lives on gomble - to bet money, strong rhythm ond is used to help people work or possessions shipwrecked - when goods - onything thqt rigging - ropes thot hold up mosts Shanty - o ship is destroyed ond the crew ore forced to qbondon it clothes ond furniture tricrl - when o court heors gunpowder - o powder thqt mokes explosions how tr person hqs broken the low ond decides how they will when it is lit be punished inlet - where the seo reoches further inlond thon wcrrship 30 Christopher 26 ltt novy, the L5,29 P c ccrnnons connonbolls clothes cutlqsses pirote ships 8-9, 10-11, 8, 12,80 LZ, B0 10, 14, 16 L2,2L,29 ports punishment L2, g0 16, 20, g0 1b, 18-19, 22-23,26-27 o song thot hos o be bought, such qs food the rest of the coqst Moody, 19,27 G-7,8-9, 12-13, 30 L4-L5 o horbour cdnnonboll - Bleord, Johnny Bonnet, Stede mcrooning merchont ships - o ship built bottles of seq D desert islqnds R 27, 28, B0 Rqckhqm, Jock Reod, Mary E Eoton, John Englond, Edword Zg 28 F flogs food g, 26-27 11, lG, 20,25,27 s shonties Shih, Ching shipwrecks 11, 30 25 27, 30 T treosure 6, 8, I6-L7, Lg, G to fight 15 L4-I5 gombling gold guns gunpowder L Low, Edword 20,29 ZL, B0 Tew, Thomqs g G-7, I6-L7 8,29 2G,90 w worships weevils 29,30 11 25 31 M@d @b@ut" Pf rcttes From ships qnd scurvy to crews qnd cutlqsses, this book is pdcked with fqscinqting fqcts lor qll children who dre mqd obout pirotes Titles in th is series: l-r;-^*Tl lrf,rf tt' IrcfFfrfI I 1ffff ff'l lrm;f lrf rrrl | "" , dl I Bollet I l,+i''l Itrlrrl I Lit,TI o Helpline 084s 036 6600 B Coll to find out how Lodybird books help children's leorning wwrv.lodybird.com f-'il.sl tti-""q t"r".*l rr lo'o'al tg:*rl lat l , 'l l lc 'iol f ,,'-ll.: r.r t l']i;l ltf-'r