Posted by Under The Black Flag on 8:59 μ.μ.
Japan's Toei Animation is planning to theatrically release computer-graphics (CG) works in Western countries and other locales in 2012. Another anime studio, Production I.G, is also planning to release Titan Rain, a joint production with Singaporea's Storm Lion Pictures (Yona Yona Penguin), in Asia. According to the Nikkei news source, the companies are aiming for theatrical releases overseas in part because the number of anime programs on television has declined, and anime DVD shipments have also dropped.Toei Animation is making two CG anime works, with 3D animation techniques, in 2011. One of the titles is Space Pirate Captain Harlock,...
Posted by Under The Black Flag on 9:03 μ.μ.
Abraham Blauvelt was a Dutch privateer and explorer mapping much of Central America in the 1630s, after whom both the Bluefield River and the neighboring town of Bluefields, Nicaragua were named.One of the last of the Dutch corsairs of the mid 17th century, Abraham Blauvelt was first recorded exploring the coasts of present day Honduras and Nicaragua in service of the Dutch West India Company. He later traveled to England in an effort to gain support to establish a colony in Nicaragua near the city where Bluefields, Nicaragua presently stands. Around 1640 Blauvelt became a privateer serving the Swedish East India Company and in 1644 he...
Posted by Under The Black Flag on 8:56 π.μ.
H πειρατεία στις ελληνικές θάλασσες εμφάνισε έξαρση κατά τους δύο τελευταίους αιώνες της Τουρκοκρατίας. Σε αυτό συνέβαλε και ο ανταγωνισμός των Δυτικών δυνάμεων με την Ανατολή για τον έλεγχο των θαλάσσιων δρόμων που περνούσαν από το Αιγαίο. Η Βενετία, κατά τη διάρκεια της πολιορκίας του Χάνδακα από τους Τούρκους, είχε στρατολογήσει πειρατές για να αμυνθεί. Οι Ρώσοι, όταν κατέβηκαν στο Αιγαίο (18ος αιώνας), επάνδρωσαν τα πλοία τους με πειρατές από τη Μάνη, την Πρέβεζα και άλλες περιοχές. Ευρωπαίοι διπλωμάτες συναλλάσσονταν φανερά με τους πειρατές. Ο καθολικός κλήρος, οι Ιησουίτες και οι Καπουτσίνοι μοναχοί εμπλέκονταν συχνά...
Posted by Under The Black Flag on 10:41 π.μ.
George Booth (died 1700) was an English pirate who was one of the earliest active in the Indian Ocean and the Red Sea during the late 17th century. Among his fleet included prominent captains such as Nathaniel North, Thomas Howard and Booth's eventual successor, John Bowen.Although his early life is largely unknown, he is first recorded in his career as a gunner aboard the Pelican around 1696, and later the Dolphin, both of which operated in the Indian Ocean.While Booth was still a gunner aboard the Dolphin, she was trapped at Sainte-Marie Island by a British fleet in September 1699. The crew of the Dolphin were offered a pardon by the British...
Posted by Under The Black Flag on 10:35 μ.μ.
John Halsey (died 1708) was a colonial American privateer and a later pirate who was active in the Atlantic and Indian Oceans during the early 18th century. Although much of his life and career is unknown, he is recorded in A General History of the Pyrates which states "He was brave in his Person, courteous to all his Prisoners, lived beloved, and died regretted by his own People. His Grave was made in a garden of watermelons, and fenced in with Palisades to prevent his being rooted up by wild Hogs."Born in Boston, Halsey became a privateer in the service of Great Britain commanding the 10-gun brigantine Charles during the War of the Spanish...
Posted by Under The Black Flag on 10:49 π.μ.
After James Stewart's financial windfall attending his "percentage of profits" deal on Winchester 73, Errol Flynn decided to cash in by making his own deal with Universal Pictures, accepting a moderate fee up front and a huge chunk of the gross for Against All Flags. Set in the 16th century, the film casts Flynn as a British naval officer unjustly condemned for desertion. He escapes punishment and joins Anthony Quinn's pirate band, wherein he and Quinn vie for the attentions of glamorous female buccaneer Maureen O'Hara. Flynn incurs O'Hara's wrath when he rescues a lovely middle-eastern princess (Alice Kelley) from slave traders, but O'Hara still...
Posted by Under The Black Flag on 10:37 π.μ.
The 'Turtle War' Ship (Keo-Book-Sun) is a very famous Korean war ship that was under the command of Admiral Lee Sun Shin (1545-1598). The Ship played a significant role in driving back the Japanese fleet during the Hydeyoshi Invasion of Korea in the year 1592. It was also used in many other naval battles as well as the 'Han-San Naval Engagement' which was one of four major naval engagements worldwide.Designed by Admiral Lee, and built with a steel dome cover over the deck of a classical type Korean ship called, 'Phan-Ok', hundreds of sharp swords were installed on the outer surface of the dome to make boarding the ship by enemies difficult and...
Posted by Under The Black Flag on 12:28 μ.μ.
18th-Century Ship Found at Trade Center SiteBy DAVID W. DUNLAPIn the middle of tomorrow, a great ribbed ghost has emerged from a distant yesterday.On Tuesday morning, workers excavating the site of the underground vehicle security center for the future World Trade Center hit a row of sturdy, upright wood timbers, regularly spaced, sticking out of a briny gray muck flecked with oyster shells.Obviously, these were more than just remnants of the wooden cribbing used in the late 18th and early 19th centuries to extend the shoreline of Manhattan Island ever farther into the Hudson River. (Lower Manhattan real estate was a precious commodity...
Posted by Under The Black Flag on 9:09 π.μ.
Στα τέλη του 16ου αιώνα χριστιανοί πειρατές έκαναν την εμφάνισή τους στην ανατολική Μεσόγειο, ασκώντας πειρατεία παράλληλα με μουσουλμάνους, Βέρβερους και Οθωμανούς. Οι χριστιανοί κουρσάροι βρίσκονταν συνήθως στην υπηρεσία του πάπα, των Ισπανών αντιβασιλέων της Νάπολης και της Σικελίας, καθώς και των Μεδίκων της Φλωρεντίας. Πρέπει να σημειωθεί ότι οι Μέδικοι της Φλωρεντίας χρηματοδότησαν πάρα πολλές κουρσάρικες επιδρομές ενάντια στην Οθωμανική Αυτοκρατορία. Κινητήρια δύναμη σε αυτές τις επιδρομές υπήρξε το Τάγμα του Αγίου Στεφάνου, που ιδρύθηκε το 1561 στην Πίζα και το χρηματοδοτούσε με προσωπικά του κεφάλαια ο εκάστοτε Δούκας της...
Posted by Under The Black Flag on 6:19 μ.μ.
Admiral Sir Henry Morgan (Harri Morgan in Welsh), (ca. 1635 – 25 August 1688) was a Welsh Admiral and privateer, who made a name for activities in the Caribbean. He was one of the most notorious and successful privateers from Wales, and one of the most dangerous pirates who worked in the Spanish Main.Henry Morgan was reportedly the oldest son of Robert Morgan, a squire of Llanrumney in the Welsh county of Monmouthshire. Other sources suggest he was from Abergavenny within the same county. An entry in the 'Bristol Apprentice Books' showing 'Servants to Foreign Plantations': February 9, 1655, included "Henry Morgan of Abergavenny, Labourer, Bound...
Posted by Under The Black Flag on 7:19 μ.μ.
Η 14χρονη ολλανδή ιστιοπλόος Λόρα Ντέκερ αναχώρησε σήμερα από το λιμάνι Ντεν Οσε της Ολλανδίας για να κάνει πραγματικότητα το όνειρό της, να γίνει η μικρότερη ιστιοπλόος που θα πραγματοποιήσει μόνη της το γύρο του κόσμου με το ιστιοπλοϊκό της. Η Λόρα και ο πατέρας της Ντικ Ντέκερ, που τη συνοδεύει στο ιστιοπλοϊκό της Guppy, αναχώρησαν από το ολλανδικό λιμάνι στις 09:00 τοπική ώρα (10:00 ώρα Ελλάδας) κατευθυνόμενοι προς τη Μαύρη θάλασσα, υπό το βλέμμα περίπου 100 θεατών και περίπου 50 δημοσιογράφων. "Δε φοβάμαι", δήλωσε η Ντέκερ λίγα λεπτά πριν από τον απόπλου και πρόσθεσε ότι επισήμως ο περίπλους της γης θ΄αρχίσει σε τέσσερις εβδομάδες...
Posted by Under The Black Flag on 6:10 μ.μ.
BY ADAM LINHARDT Citizen Staffalinhardt@keysnews.comSomeone actually lifted the famous gold bar Wednesday evening from the Mel Fisher Maritime Museum.The 5-pound bar, from the 15th century Spanish galleon the Nuestra Señora de Atocha that Fisher and his crew found off Key West in 1985, was stolen from its secure Plexiglas enclosure about 5:13 p.m., Key West police said.Security cameras captured images of two people breaking into the case and taking the bar from what museum director Melissa Kendrick called one of Fisher's favorite exhibits, because it allowed visitors to hold the same treasure -- to "lift the gold bar" -- found by his team.One...
Posted by Under The Black Flag on 11:39 π.μ.
Rogers and his men search Spanish ladies for their jewels in Guayaquil.Rogers (right) receives a map of New Providence Island from his son, in a painting by William Hogarth (1729)Woodes Rogers (ca. 1679 – 15 July 1732) was an English sea captain, privateer, and, later, the first Royal Governor of the Bahamas. He is known as the captain of the vessel that rescued the marooned Alexander Selkirk, whose plight is generally believed to have inspired Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe.Rogers came from an affluent seafaring family, grew up in Poole and Bristol, and served a marine apprenticeship to a Bristol sea captain. His father, who held shares in many...
