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Toby Schmitz as John Rackham
Toby Schmitz as the English pirate John Rackham, aka 'Calico Jack' (d. 1720) in the TV series Black Sails.
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Captain Kidd Cigarette Card
A late-19th century cigarette card showing the Scottish privateer turned pirate Captain Kidd (c. 1645-1701) burying his treasure. William Kidd was found guilty of piracy and hanged in 1701. Produced by Allen & Ginter. Lithographer: George...
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Blackbeard's Fight to the Death
A 1920 illustration showing the fight to the death between the pirate Blackbeard (aka Edward Teach) and Lieutenant Robert Maynard. In the battle at Ocracoke Inlet, North Carolina on 22 November 1718, Blackbeard was finally killed by five...
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Henry Every and his Ship Fancy
A 1702 illustration of the English pirate Henry Every and his ship the Fancy. Every captured fabulous treasure from an Indian treasure ship in 1695 and disappeared soon after never to be seen again.
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Blackbeard's Death by Pyle
An illustration by Howard Pyle (1853-1911) showing the notorious pirate Blackbeard's fight to the death in 1718. From an original oil painting by Pyle. (The illustration first appeared in Pyle, Howard (1894), Jack Ballister's Fortunes, The...
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Edward Low Marooned by His Crew
An illustration showing the notorious English pirate Captain Edward Low, marooned by his crew in 1724. Low was active in the Caribbean and eastern Atlantic from 1721 to 1724 during the Golden Age of Piracy (1690-1730). (National Maritime...
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Portrait of Jean Lafitte
A 19th-century portrait of the Franco-American pirate and privateer Jean Lafitte (c. 1780 - c. 1821). (Rosenberg Library, Galveston, Texas)
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Edward England, Fancy & Cassandra
An 18th-century engraving showing the pirate Edward England and his ship Fancy attacking the East India Company ship Cassandra in 1720.
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Roche Brasiliano
A 17th-century illustration of the Dutch privateer and pirate Roche Brasiliano (active 1650s to 1660s). From an early edition of Alexander Exquemelin’s Buccaneers of America, first published in Dutch in 1678.
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Samuel Bellamy Cigarette Card
A late-19th century cigarette card showing the British pirate Captain Samuel Bellamy (d. 1717). Bellamy died when his ship the Whydah was wrecked in a storm off Cape Cod. Produced by Allen & Ginter. Lithographer: George S. Harris & Sons...
