The USS Panay, a United States Navy river gunboat, part of the brown-water navy, which served on the Yangtze Patrol, hunting for river pirates and Chinese insurgents, on the Yangtze River, in China. The Imperial Japanese Army ultimately sunk the Panay in 1937, known as the Panay Incident.
A river pirate is a pirate who operates along a river. The term has been used to describe many different kinds of pirate groups who carry out riverine attacks in Asia, Africa, Europe, North America, and South America. They are usually prosecuted under national, not international law.
A riverpirate is a pirate who operates along a river. The term has been used to describe many different kinds of pirate groups who carry out riverine...
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(1688 – 10 December 1718) was a Barbadian-born pirate and military officer, known as the Gentleman Pirate for the reason that he was a moderately wealthy...
This is a list of known pirates, buccaneers, corsairs, privateers, riverpirates, and others involved in piracy and piracy-related activities. This list...
The RiverPirate is a 1928 American synchronized sound drama film directed by William K. Howard and written by Malcolm Stuart Boylan, Ben Markson and John...
This is a list of pirate films and TV series, primarily in the pirate film genre, about the Golden Age of Piracy from the 17th through 18th centuries...
International Talk Like a Pirate Day is a parodic holiday created in 1995 by John Baur and Mark Summers of Albany, Oregon, who proclaimed September 19...
The Pirates of Blood River is a 1962 British swashbuckler film directed by John Gilling and starring Kerwin Mathews, Glenn Corbett, Christopher Lee and...
culture, the modern pirate stereotype owes its attributes mostly to the imagined tradition of the 18th-century Caribbean pirate sailing off the Spanish...
was a Welsh pirate who was, measured by vessels captured, the most successful pirate of the Golden Age of Piracy. During his piratical career, he took...
A pirate code, pirate articles, or articles of agreement were a code of conduct for governing pirates. A group of sailors, on turning pirate, would draw...
and shipping in the Caribbean and eastern Pacific to western Pacific. The Pirate Round (1690s), associated with long-distance voyages from the Americas to...
The Republic of Pirates was the base and stronghold of a loose confederacy run by privateers-turned-pirates in Nassau on New Providence island in the...
(hanged 18 November 1720), commonly known as Calico Jack, was an English pirate captain operating in the Bahamas and in Cuba during the early 18th century...
king Alaric I, who both changed the course of rivers to hide their treasures. Legends of buried pirate treasure have existed for centuries, but authenticated...
– 1622), also known as Jack Ward or later as Yusuf Reis, was an English pirate who later became a Corsair for the Ottoman Empire operating out of Tunis...
spelled as "Roronoa Zolo" in some English adaptations), also known as "Pirate Hunter" Zoro (海賊狩りのゾロ, Kaizoku-Gari no Zoro), is a fictional character created...
Realm: Pirate Life on the Spanish Main, 1674–1688. Potomac Books. Retrieved 9 January 2017. "Tortuga – Pirate History – The Way Of The Pirates". Archived...
Piracy. Some women have been pirate captains and some have commanded entire pirate fleets. Among the most powerful pirate women were figures such as Zheng...
The Pirates of Penzance; or, The Slave of Duty is a comic opera in two acts, with music by Arthur Sullivan and libretto by W. S. Gilbert. Its official...
1869) was an alleged semi-folklorish American criminal, gang leader and riverpirate known under the pseudonym Sadie the Goat. She is believed to have been...
Davy Crockett and the RiverPirates is a 1956 American Western film produced by Walt Disney Productions. A prequel to Davy Crockett: King of the Wild...
Pirate utopias were defined by anarchist writer Peter Lamborn Wilson, who coined the term in his 1995 book Pirate Utopias: Moorish Corsairs & European...
sometimes erroneously given as Jack Avery or John Avery, was an English pirate who operated in the Atlantic and Indian oceans in the mid-1690s. He probably...
(IMB) due to a significant absence of Somali pirate attacks in previous years, although Somali pirates still reportedly possess the ability and resources...
American female pirate, and the last woman to be hanged in Massachusetts. She may also have been the first American-born woman to become a pirate. Wall was...
The Barbary pirates, Barbary corsairs, or Ottoman corsairs were mainly Muslim pirates and privateers who operated from the Barbary states. This area was...
1820, was the legendary riverpirate who ran a criminal gang on the Ohio River in a cypress swamp near the mouth of the Cache River. The outlaw camp of Colonel...
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