| The ship sails billowing in the distance
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| | ships, many preferred the faster sloops,
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| spread panic across the seas. The
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| | brigantines and schooners.
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| skull-and-crossbones flags were enough to
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| | Schooners were two-masted ships with
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| strike terror in the bravest of hearts.
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| | narrow hulls and large spread of sail
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| As the ships drew nearer, so did images
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| | that made them fast, sometimes going over
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| of flashing swords, plunder and
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| | 11 knots.
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| bloodshed.
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| | The brigantine had a foremast, usually
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| The ships that pirates used were stolen
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| | with square-rigged sails. The main masts
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| or obtained in a mutiny. Some were even
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| | with a fore-and-aft and square-rigged
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| acquired from privateers as these ships
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| | topsail could move in any wind condition.
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| were fast and specially designed for the
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| | It was about 80 feet long, 150 tons and
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| purpose of pursuit. A pirate could
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| | could carry up to 100 men and 12 guns.
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| command several ships, the most famous
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| | The sloops were small, single-masted
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| multi-ship pirate being Bartholomew
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| | craft with an enormous sail spread which
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| Roberts, who owned six ships through his
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| | made them fast and agile. In the
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| colorful career.
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| | Caribbean, sloops were popular for their
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| A pirate ship was an interesting place to
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| | speed and ability to enter shallow
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| be in. It was a place where they lived,
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| | waters, where larger battleships could
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| and it was always battle-ready! Though
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| | not chase them. These vessels were also
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| the crew lived together, there were
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| | easy to remove barnacles from and were
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| special cabins for the captain and the
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| | easy to keep in fighting fit shape.
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| quartermaster. The ship also had a
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| | Warships, battleships and frigates became
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| storeroom where the booty was kept. It
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| | popular because of their weapon-carrying
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| carried plenty of weapons and it was oh,
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| | ability.
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| so fast! Though some pirates used large
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