David Cordingly
Born
The United Kingdom
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Under the Black Flag: The Romance and the Reality of Life Among the Pirates
25 editions
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1995
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Cochrane: The Real Master and Commander
18 editions
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2004
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Seafaring Women: Adventures of Pirate Queens, Female Stowaways & Sailors' Wives
20 editions
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2001
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Pirate Hunter of the Caribbean: The Adventurous Life of Captain Woodes Rogers
13 editions
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2011
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The Billy Ruffian
9 editions
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2003
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Pirates: Terror on the High Seas, from the Caribbean to the South China Sea
2 editions
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1996
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Pirates: Facts and Fiction
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4 editions
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1992
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Pirates: An Illustrated History of Privateers, Buccaneers & Pirates from the Sixteenth Century to the Present
6 editions
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1920
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Capt. James Cook: Navigator
2 editions
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1988
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Complete Book of Maritime Design: A Compendium of Naval Art and Painting
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1998
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“Their activities reached a peak in the early years of the nineteenth century, when a community of around forty thousand pirates with some four hundred junks dominated the coastal waters and attacked any merchant vessels which strayed into the area. From 1807 these pirates were led by a remarkable woman called Mrs. Cheng, a former prostitute from Canton.”
― Under the Black Flag: The Romance and the Reality of Life Among the Pirates
― Under the Black Flag: The Romance and the Reality of Life Among the Pirates
“Morgan was sent copies and decided to sue both publishers for libel.”
― Under the Black Flag: The Romance and the Reality of Life Among the Pirates
― Under the Black Flag: The Romance and the Reality of Life Among the Pirates
“The most impressive naval career of all the female sailors is that of William Brown, a black woman who spent at least twelve years on British warships, much of this time in the extremely demanding role of captain of the foretop. A good description of her appeared in London’s Annual Register in September 1815: “She is a smart, well-formed figure, about five feet four inches in height, possessed of considerable strength and great activity; her features are rather handsome for a black, and she appears to be about twenty-six years of age.” The article also noted that “in her manner she exhibits all the traits of a British tar and takes her grog with her late messmates with the greatest gaiety.”
Brown was a married woman and had joined the navy around 1804 following a quarrel with her husband. For several years she served on the Queen Charlotte, a three-decker with 104 guns and one of the largest ships in the Royal Navy. Brown must have had nerve, strength, and unusual ability to have been made captain of the foretop on such a ship….The captain of the foretop had to lead a team of seamen up the shrouds of the foremast, and then up the shrouds of the fore-topmast and out along the yards a hundred feet or more above the deck….
At some point in 1815, it was discovered that Brown was a woman and her story was published in the papers, but this does not seem to have affected her naval career….What is certain is that Brown returned to the Queen Charlotte and rejoined the crew.”
― Seafaring Women: Adventures of Pirate Queens, Female Stowaways & Sailors' Wives
Brown was a married woman and had joined the navy around 1804 following a quarrel with her husband. For several years she served on the Queen Charlotte, a three-decker with 104 guns and one of the largest ships in the Royal Navy. Brown must have had nerve, strength, and unusual ability to have been made captain of the foretop on such a ship….The captain of the foretop had to lead a team of seamen up the shrouds of the foremast, and then up the shrouds of the fore-topmast and out along the yards a hundred feet or more above the deck….
At some point in 1815, it was discovered that Brown was a woman and her story was published in the papers, but this does not seem to have affected her naval career….What is certain is that Brown returned to the Queen Charlotte and rejoined the crew.”
― Seafaring Women: Adventures of Pirate Queens, Female Stowaways & Sailors' Wives
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