#the golden age of sail

[robins-revenge]

#horatio hornblower #hornblower #our flag means death #pirates #the golden age of sail #golden age of piracy #please its such a problem

[ltwilliammowett]

The Golden Hind

The seaworthy replica of Sir Francis Drake’s ship The Golden Hind enters the Pool of London under Tower Bridge in London on 9 April 1974

#tall ship #golden hind #16th century #london #1974 #age of sail replica

[clove-pinks]

Tile Panel: Men-of-War, Frigates, Flutes, and a Herring Buss.

c. 1640-1660, Dutch.

#age of sail #17th century #dutch golden age #men-of-war #frigate #maritime history #art #tiles #the sea

[memecatwings]

i do admit that black sails fans are pretentious but i mean have you seen the show? if you dont come out of it at least somewhat pretentious about television dramas then i dont think you really understood it. you need to watch it again. here i'll give you some discussion questions to help you get thinking, your repsonses are due next wee- [GUNSHOT]

#black sails #you can rent a copy of treasure island from your local library as supplimentary material and #i can email you some links to documentaries on the golden age of piracy we can discuss the readings in class tomorrow #this is /j just in case anyone needed to hear that im joking this is a joke

[gellavonhamster]

I am the sea and nobody owns me

#moodboard #shadow and bone #shadow and bone netflix #inej ghafa #pirates of the caribbean #anamaria #elizabeth swann #black sails #anne bonny #crossbones #the pirates: the last royal treasure #scenic world #my stuff #really wanted to sneak some opla in here but alas alvida's bright pink lipstick was clashing with the general vibe a little bit #and nami doesn't dress in the golden age of piracy kind of way some other op characters go for

[the-golden-vanity]

I'm having complicated emotions (though mostly giggling madly) about the fact that people are recommending The Terror and Black Sails to Our Flag Means Death fans purely based on them being Age of Sail series with "queer representation". Like... sure, I guess? But I'm not sure if serious-as-a-heart-attack horror or drama series are what OFMD fans are looking for.

HOWEVER.

What if I told you there is another pirate show out there with a lighthearted tone, colorful quasi-Age-of-Sail setting, and plot centered around a lovable crew of misfits creating a found family on a pirate ship?

Our Flag Means Death fans looking for a new boat media obsession, I think Netflix's One Piece may be the show you're looking for. Have fun, and I'll see you all at Funky Bar on Mirror Ball Island.

#one piece #opla #one piece netflix #pirate show #boat media #boat story #our flag means death #ofmd #our flag means love #pirates #golden age of piracy #age of sail #age of sail fiction #age of sail movies and series #the terror amc #the terror #black sails #nautical #maritime #piratecore #funky bar on mirror ball island

[bantarleton]

A drunken English soldier accidentally giving away Francis Drake's planned ambush on the Spanish silver train at Venta Cruces in February 1573. Drake's expedition had trekked through the jungle to attack the train as it left from Panama City, capturing several mules laden with silver before escaping. Art by the great Angus McBride.

#francis drake #history #16th century #pirate #pirates #privateer #privateers #golden age of piracy #age of sail

[transjudas]

i’m reading this scholarly paper about make pirates gender performance during the golden age of piracy, particularly “hypervirility”/hypermasculinity vs and together with effeminacy and so far this is my favorite part:

[ID: A scene from the biography “Of Captain Martel,” in which pirates posture as effeminate beaus, demonstrates again the sartorial closeness of hypervirility and effeminacy. In one of the letters to added to the second Captain Evans describes how his ship fell victim to Martel’s crew and how the pirates raided his personal cabin. This is what he sees when they return: Notwithstanding the melancholy Situation I was in, I could not refrain laughing when I saw the Fellows who went on aboard the Greyhound, return to their own Ship; for they had, in rummaging my Cabin, met with a Leather Powder Bag and Puff, with which they had powder’d themselves from Head to Foot, walk’d the Decks with their Hats under their Arms, minced their Oaths, and affected all the Airs of a Beau, with an Aukwardness [that] would have forced a Smile from a Cynick. END ID]

i just love the image of pirates dressing up and doing a pantomime of a gentleman. Including, and especially, “mincing oaths” which i had to look up and means using alternatives to swear words. So like saying heck or darn or shoot instead of hell, damn, shit. A group of outlaws living in one of the most unforgiving environments, those who aren’t captains most likely coming from more meager circumstances, or at least not lavish, pretending to be upper class fellows with over the top good manners. A humorous spectacle not only to those being plundered, but surely to themselves.

Mocking the wealthy they’re attacking while also just… playing dress up because it’s funny and brings levity and, i’m sure, laughing amongst each other.

#history #piracy #pirates #golden age of piracy #age of sail #stories about pirates are always gone taken with several grains of salt but there’s often truth to be found #and this is just such a silly human thing to do

[barbossas-wench]

Piracy and Enlightenment

There's the historical connection between enlightenment and pirates

We all know the pirates are lawbreakers but there's a connection between enlightenment and Piracy on the same time

Piracy had been a very long time to this day, especially Golden Age of Piracy dates from 1650s-1730s

Age of Enlightenment (or Age of Reason) dates from 1685-1815 was a movement with intellectual and philosophical influences and effects.

The movement's main ideas are humanity, reason, descience and liberty. The Enlightenment influence two grandest revolutions, the American revolution and French Revolution. The two revolutions influenced other countries independence in following years

Also, there are enlightened ideas of modern democracy, including vote for rights

Pirate government system is modern democracy. They have voting election to elect new captain or new second mate.

Some enlightened ideas about natural human rights (life, liberty, and property). Enlightened philosophers wanted to improve human conditions on earth than concern with skepticism

In Piracy, being aboard on pirate ships are more civilized than life on merchant ships that merchant sailors were treated poorly there. Piracy also offered to poor men who are unemployed. Pirates may be respect to each other despite their different backgrounds.

Since American Revolution influenced by enlightenment ideals, some pirates help America free from Britain

Pirate code was influenced by enlightenment as US Constitution, despite they have different similarities on their own and each other. And it has significant on process of American democracy.

So that means Pirates are enlightened rebels on the sea

#max's corner #history #pirates history #age of enlightenment #golden age of piracy #pirate history #pirates of the caribbean #POTC #black sails #our flag means death #ofmd #treasure island

[lethalhoopla]

The new trailer has injected hype straight into my veins (rip everyone who is tired of Varric narrating trailers feat. Solas, but I'm a sucker for both) and the art is just gorgeous as always so I took screencaps - figured I'd share in case anyone else wanted them!

#dragon age #dragon age: dreadwolf #da:d #da4 #solas #i'd tag varric but he's not *pictured* lol so #i went off in the tags of the cinematic i reblogged earlier but for REAL there's a lot of little things in this trailer that are new!! #i mean i'm not surprised it's not an 'official' game trailer lol they're almost certainly saving that for game awards this week #but- the symbolism with the 7 evanuris outside the circle rim (theorized previously but now confirmed & with symbols!) #the way the golden city turned black (also dope skull) - its been theorized that the gc/bc was elven related but!! this is a BIG lead #plus ppl have been noting it almost looks like there's a ship sailing away from the gc before it turns black/as it does so #in those swirling black patterns that 'root' out before the image changes- #so!! new theories re maybe the evanuris/remaining elves fled the gc? after corrupting it??? or otherwise Fucking Around and Finding Out #plus the final one! with solas and the er- bomb/spell to destroy the veil - the 4 (but possibly 5 it looks like ones clipped out) #semicircles representing the evanuris - and more importantly... the archdemons probably - bc 5 defeated archdemons.... out of ostensibly 7- #5 evanuris down (or more terrifyingly: 5 of their 'locks'?) (or or- 5 of their simply leaked Bad Vibes in Dragon Form) out of 7 #somehow tying into this spell...? #solas (if ogb was a thing in ur playthrough) not only has mythal's energy but ogb's.... so many unanswered questions and loose threads #i and every other Lore Nerd are desperately trying to figure out what can be braided together with any reasonable effect lmao #regardless - gorgeous art is gorgeous hello new desktop bg

[changecomesforyou]

on a whim: would anyone be interested in reading my research project on whether or not pyrates were anarchists, revolutionaries, capitalists, or simply desperate men* at sea?

Massively inspired by my love of Black Sails and sort of an extension of the conversation Black Sails poses to it’s viewers: Are the characters driven by revenge? Money? Greed? Justice? Want for a better world?

I’ve considered diving deeper on the topic and writing a more extensive essay exploring this idea. I wrote it in college and was on quite a time restraint so I didn’t have the time to analyse as many first hand accounts as I would have liked. Maybe some day.

I’ve always wanted to make this work public as it’s the only worthwhile thing I’ve ever made<3

What really makes me crazy is how Black Sails literally STARTS with the end of the Golden Age. The first panel: 1715, The Treaty of Utrecht has just been signed. The world begins its war on pirates.

This is why Black Sails works so well. But that’s a rant for another day. Maybe

#Golden Age of Piracy #1715 #Treaty of Utrecht #Black Sails #Anarchy #James Flint #Blackbeard #Essay #mine

[ltwilliammowett]

Melody in Silver: The Golden Fleece, by Montague Dawson (1890-1973)

#naval art #clipper #golden fleece #19th century #age of sail #art

[jetstargf]

black sails literally if i loved u less i might be able to talk about it more

#i can wax poetic abt got and teenwolf bc they are garbage and i don’t like them i just love them if that makes sense #but BLACK SAILS. IS SO GOOD AND I LOVE AND LIKE IT SO MUCH THAT I CANT EVEN SPEAK #i don’t want to ruin it w my silly commentary but jesus christ it’s so fucjing good like. #it is one of. the most well written character driven narratives on a level i have never seen before in tv #so much of television is formulaic and despite having to work around treasure island it manages to be original and u really don’t know where #it’s going to go bc the characters are just so. U KNOW. #but also it’s golden age of piracy rpf and i think thags beautiful #black sails

[thebaffledcaptain]

Kanhoji Angre: the 18th-Century Maratha Admiral, Pseudo-Pirate, and All-Around Badass

So this post got more notes than I expected it to, so I figure I may as well follow through on my promise to make a post about him! You want to know about the aforementioned badass 18th-century Maratha navy admiral and pseudo-pirate who repeatedly fended off Western invasion in India? Then you shall. I wrote a paper about this guy, so here we go.

Let me introduce you to Kanhoji Angre. Information is scant on his early life and career—sources tend to disagree about his true origins and we don’t know a lot about his family status, but modern historians tend to trace his lineage to Tukoji Angre, his father, who distinguished himself in the early Maratha navy. We know Kanhoji was descended from a long line of Maratha mariners, which meant he fought in a number of naval raids and became acquainted with naval tactics as he grew up. As an adult, he began hiring out his own fleet to the Maratha navy itself, which, at the time, consisted only of numerous small ships and sought Angre’s heavier armament, which would become essentially the centerpiece of the naval force. In a sense he single-handedly built the Maratha navy into quite a formidable force, becoming Sarkhel, or admiral in 1698, and establishing numerous insurmountable forts along the coast.

Of course, the turn of the 18th century also coincided with growing European colonial intentions in India, and Angre’s presence is well-documented in East India Company records as a nuisance, a pirate, and a warlord in different capacities. To the English, he was a formidable pirate, a scourge to European ships on the west coast of the Indian subcontinent, and a menace to the Company, who suffered significant losses at his hand. Their interactions would eventually escalate into full-on military altercations, and the Company would go as far as to seek allyship with the Portuguese and the Viceroy of Goa, but Angre would remain undefeated throughout his lifetime, which consisted of many other interactions with various Western powers. He was arguably the most powerful maritime figure on the Indian coast by the time he died, but the European primary sources tend to play that down as far as they can for obvious reasons.

But I know you’re wondering—was he, then, a pirate? Well, it depends on who you ask. While Kanhoji Angre did, in certain ways, engage in actions that could be considered piracy from an English perspective, he still operated by a clear code of conduct. One account from 1716 tells of an interaction during which Angre detained an East India Company ship to determine whether they had a pass from the governor of Bombay, with whom he was bound to a nonaggression agreement, but otherwise did them no harm when he discovered they did. On the other hand, that same account quickly makes sure to mention how Angre would pursue vessels from Madras and Calcutta, the governments of which he had no agreements with. In the words of Patricia Risso in her excellent article about the topic, Angre “did not share the English legal definition of maritime violence,” which led to the inevitable branding of him as a pirate by the British, despite the fact that he did operate legally in accordance with those with whom he had such legal agreements. Whether this makes him a pirate or not is ultimately a matter of perspective, but in my humble opinion it certainly does not make him less cool.

Regardless of his status as a pirate or a military leader, Kanhoji Angre is a fascinating, highly overlooked, and pretty damn awesome figure in maritime history, and it’s a shame we don’t have more information on him. If you’re interested in more of the primary source material, I’d recommend checking out Clement Downing’s A Compendious History of the Indian Wars: With an Account of the Rise, Progress, Strength, and Forces of Angria the Pyrate, published in 1737 (free on Google Books!), for one such English perspective, which is the source I based my initial paper on. This is mostly my excuse to infodump about a guy I think history Tumblr would love, and who stands to be appreciated more for being an interesting dude and an all-around badass.

#i wrote 10 pages on this guy last semester I can do it again #the captain's lectures #age of sail #piracy #golden age of piracy #indian military #maratha military #maratha #naval history #colonialism #east india company #maritime history #this is your captain speaking #long post

[burningvelvet]

"It is no very uncommon thing for a Child that is a Native of Paris, to go and seek his Fortune abroad, and to entertain a fixed Design of becoming a Man engaged in hazardous Adventures. This City, within which most of the Wonders of the World are contained, and which is perhaps the greatest that can be met with, ought, in my Opinion, to have the Preference of any other upon the Face of the Earth. But who is he that can penetrate into the Secrets of Nature, and give a Reason for some sort of Inclinations she works in the Minds of Mortals? As for my self, I must confess I am not able to give an Account of the Depth of my Desires; and all that I can say, is, That I have always had a most passionate Disposition for Travel."

— opening lines from the journals of French pirate Raveneau de Lussan, pub. 1695.

#yeah im back into pirate shit #ty #black sails #also this is so #mr. rochester #Raveneau de Lussan #pirates #golden age of piracy #piratecore #travel #paris #france #beauty #quotes #wanderlust #history #literature #europe #travel aesthetic #adventure #interesting

[the-golden-vanity]

Thoughts on B.R. Burg's Sodomy And The Pirate Tradition:

All right, this isn't going to be a big, put-together essay, just scattered thoughts, since that's what I'm capable of right now.

This book and its writer are real "queer studies" OGs, and its attitude is very much of that initial post-Stonewall, pre-AIDS gay liberation era. It's a book with attitude and confidence, and with the historical facts to back it up. For an academic text (a style of writing I never got along well with), it's a very fun read.

On to the fun facts!

In spite of how common tavern wenches and dockside whores are as characters in pirate fiction, there was only one brothel in Port Royal in 1680! (This is less surprising than it sounds—with the exception of religious freedom colonies like Maryland and Massachusetts Bay, Britain's American colonies during this era had male:female ratios averaging between 5:1 and 2:1, and the women of the colonies tended to be the wives of male colonists.)

If you spend a certain amount of time in Age of Sail/pirate fandoms, you will come across the idea that pirates had a rule or tradition against oral sex. While it's true that all the written records we have of shipboard sodomy at this point in history are about hand stuff or penetration, Burg argues sensibly that this was less due to any formal prohibitions, and more due to the general unwashedness of Age of Sail seamen. (Which... fair.)

While the pirate institution of matelotage gets talked about online as something like "pirate gay marriage", Burg makes it sound like something closer to pirate indentured servitude. However, he does give examples of matelots and their masters who did become uncommonly close and emotionally bonded, and does mention "pirate marriage" as a separate thing that also happened.

From the less-distant past, it was interesting to see which of the stereotypes about queer men that existed at the time of writing were seen as necessary to debunk, both in relation to pirate society and in relation to contemporary gay subculture—namely, the perceived prevalence of sadomasochism and of effeminacy among queer men.

These were some of the things I found most interesting about the book, but there's plenty more I'd like to talk about it with other people who are either curious about it or who have read it. Let me know you thoughts!

#sodomy and the pirate tradition #pirates #pirate #piracy #golden age of piracy #age of sail #queer studies #queer history #historical pirates #lgbt history #lgbtq history #gay history #gay pirates #our flag means death #black sails #one piece