Posted by Under The Black Flag on 4:19 μ.μ.
What is your fiction about? It's about time travel and pirates. This is what my response is every time someone asks me this question, and it always elicits the raising of an eyebrow and, occasionally, nausea. Not that I blame anyone -- telling people you are writing about these things individually will get you some bizarre looks. Together? People start to wonder if you've escaped an asylum. Are you serious? Yes. I thought it would be fun. Keep in mind that I do my historical research; other than the time travel part, I try to be true to the facts. After watching Pirates of the Caribbean on TV one day, it occurred to me that...
Posted by Under The Black Flag on 3:00 μ.μ.
Days after launching its Power & Prestige expansion for Pirates of the Burning Sea, Flying Lab Software announced that the MMORPG will switch from a subscription-based model to free-to-play.Published by Sony Online Entertainment in North America and Europe, Pirates of the Burning Sea is a sailing/swashbuckling-themed online game set in the early 18th century and centered around three nations: England, France, and Spain (players can also join a Pirates faction). Flying Lab intends to retain an optional subscription option known as the "Captain's Club", which offers more character/structure/dockyard slots, XP/loot/faction bonuses, and...
Posted by Under The Black Flag on 12:56 μ.μ.
Captain George Shelvocke (1675-1742) was an English privateer who wrote a famous 1723 book based on his exploits, A Voyage Round the World By Way of The Great South Sea.Born into a farming family in Shropshire and christened at St Mary's, Shrewsbury on 1 April 1675,, Shelvocke joined the Royal Navy when he was 15. During two long wars with France and Spain he rose through the ranks to become sailing master and finally second lieutenant of a flagship serving under Admiral John Benbow in the West Indies. However, when war with France ended in 1713 he was beached without even half-pay support. When he was commissioned as captain of the ship Speedwell,...
Posted by Under The Black Flag on 10:07 π.μ.
International Talk Like a Pirate Day (ITLAPD) is a parodic holiday created in 1995 by John Baur (Ol' Chumbucket) and Mark Summers (Cap'n Slappy), of Albany, Oregon, U.S., who proclaimed 19th September each year as the day when everyone in the world should talk like a pirate. For example, an observer of this holiday would greet friends not with "Hello," but with "Ahoy, matey!" The holiday, and its observance, springs from a romanticized view of the Golden Age of Piracy."Cap'n Slappy" and "Ol' Chumbucket", the founders of Talk Like a Pirate DayAccording to Summers, the day is the only holiday to come into being as a result of a sports injury....
Posted by Under The Black Flag on 11:46 π.μ.
Lionel Wafer was a English Buccaneer and surgeon. He began his nautical career in 1677 when he set out for the East Indies as a servant to the surgeon on board a ship called the Great Anne. His second voyage brought him to the West Indies. In Jamaica, he jumped ship and lived with his brother who worked on a plantation on the island. During this time, he practiced as a surgeon in Port Royal. He eventually joined with the buccaneers in Jamaica. He partook in the concentrated plunder of the shipping bound to and from the Spanish Main with the noted buccaneer's Cook and Lynch. Later he joined with the buccaneers...
Posted by Under The Black Flag on 10:40 π.μ.
Το νησί του θησαυρού, αυτό που αναφέρεται στο βιβλίο του Ρόμπερτ Λούις Στίβενσον, υπάρχει! Είναι χαμένο στα εχθρικά νερά του Ειρηνικού ωκεανού, 550 χλμ. δυτικά της Κόστα Ρίκα. Το όνομα αυτού; Νήσος Κόκος. Πάνω σε αυτό το κομμάτι ηφαιστειακής γης, μήκους 8 χλμ. και πλάτους 4 χλμ., μια ομάδα πειρατών έθαψε την πολύτιμη λεία της από τις λεηλασίες. Το γεγονός ότι η πρόσβαση εκεί ήταν δύσκολη, ότι παντού υπήρχαν επικίνδυνα έντομα και ότι είχε πυκνότατη βλάστηση, το καθιστούσαν το ιδανικό θησαυροφυλάκιο! Ο θησαυρός αυτός, που λέγεται ότι αποτελείται από εκατοντάδες κιλά χρυσό, φαίνεται ότι θάφτηκε στο Κόκος από δύο διαβόητους πειρατές,...
Posted by Under The Black Flag on 12:07 μ.μ.
Basil Ringrose was a English buccaneer and surgeon. Ringrose wrote the rare account which was added as a fourth part of The Buccaneers of America in the second English edition. It can be found bound with the first three parts but scarcely as a separate book. Entitled "The South Seas Waggoner". Ringrose wrote about his adventures with Bartholomew Sharp's expedition across the Isthmus of Panama in 1680-1682. He drew numerous charts and views during these ventures. This account also provides us with a description of daily activities by the buccaneers. Ringrose was killed during an attack on the city Santiago...
Posted by Under The Black Flag on 8:44 π.μ.
The title -- Captain Blood -- already bodes well, but for a pirate-yarn the tale begins in unlikely fashion. The first scene has Peter Blood smoking a pipe and tending his geraniums in the quiet town of Bridgewater. The incongruity continues throughout the novel as Peter Blood, gentleman doctor, is thrust into a considerably different role. All told, however, he'd rather be enjoying the quiet life. The setting is the late 17th century, with Monmouth rising up against King James II. Blood is not actively involved, but he is called to tend to one of the wounded -- and promptly arrested for his...
Posted by Under The Black Flag on 5:15 μ.μ.
Συνοδεία κάμερας του... BBC και φυσικά του συνόλου των ελληνικών καναλιών αναμένεται να αρχίσει από μέρα σε μέρα ο... εντοπισμός του μυθικού θησαυρού του Αλή Πασά που σύμφωνα με έναν ελληνοαυστραλό επιχειρηματία βρίσκεται κρυμμένος κάπου μεταξύ Θεόπετρας και Βασιλικής. Η ιστορία της αναζήτησης του θησαυρού που έχει γοητεύσει γενιές και γενιές χρυσοθήρων και όχι μόνο, ξεκινάει προ διμήνου στο δημαρχείο Βασιλικής όπου ο φιλόδοξος ερευνητής κατέθεσε αίτηση ανασκαφής υποδεικνύοντας ως περιοχή των ερευνών μια τοποθεσία κοντά στο χωριό. Ο Ελληνοαυστραλός, που είναι εξοπλισμένος ακόμα και με χάρτη της περιοχής από την εποχή της Τουρκοκρατίας,...
Posted by Under The Black Flag on 4:51 μ.μ.
We are proud to launch our first expansion, Power and Prestige! The biggest new features in P&P are Port Governance and Stacking Penalties. We’re also adding a Brawling fighting school to Swashbuckling combat which means a revamp of all the schools. And we’ve tuned the career skills and most ships. See below for more details on these changes and more. Join us in celebrating Talk Like a Pirate Day!Talk to Captain Billings (the parrot) in Tortuga to join the fun and earn a title. Also, this is a milestone build and so honors a Community Member of the Month. Look for Kerrilyn off the dock of Jenny Bay....
Posted by Under The Black Flag on 8:37 π.μ.
From the first days of European enterprise in the East, the coasts of India were regarded as a favourable field for filibusters [=freebooters], the earliest we hear of being Vincente Sodre, a companion of Vasco da Gama in his second voyage. Intercourse with heathens and idolaters was regulated according to a different code of ethics from that applied to intercourse with Christians. The authority of the Old Testament upheld slavery, and Africans were regarded more as cattle than human beings; while Asiatics were classed higher, but still as immeasurably inferior to Europeans. To prey upon Mahommedan ships was simply to pursue in other waters the...
Posted by Under The Black Flag on 12:22 μ.μ.
"The Pyrates [were] waiting there for them, took them and Plundered them; they cut and whiped some and others they burnt with Matches between their Fingers to the bone to make them confess where their Money was, they took to the value of a Thousand Pistoles from Passengers and others, they then let them go, but coming on the Coast off of the Capes of Virginia, they were again chased by the same Pyrates who first took them, they did not trouble them again but wished them well Home, they saw at the same time his Consort, a Sloop of eight Guns, with a Ship and a Sloop which were supposed to be Prizes, they were Commanded by one Edward LOW. The Pyrates...
Posted by Under The Black Flag on 5:36 μ.μ.
When Elizabeth came to the throne, she, without loss of time, took measures to restore the navy, which had been allowed to fall into decay during the reign of her wretched sister Mary. Timber was stored up for building, numerous pieces of brass cannon cast, and gunpowder, which had hitherto been brought from abroad, was manufactured at home. She raised the wages of seamen, increased the number of naval officers, and augmented their salaries, giving also encouragement to foreigners skilled in shipbuilding to repair to her ports and construct strong ships, both for war and commerce. The fortresses in the Isle of Wight and other parts were...
