Captain Jack Sparrow's beloved ship is one of the most recognizable pirate vessels in cinema, and it's based on a real type ...

Gold and silver were too heavy and would weigh down a ship. Pirates were far more interested in items such as spices, alcohol and medicines, which they could use themselves or trade when back on ...

Why is the “Pirates of the Caribbean” trilogy the coolest action fantasy franchise since “Star Wars?” Because the POTC team learned from the best. They’re not plagiarists per se, but they ...

And you can imagine how boring it must have been on a pirate ship on your off hours ... for English seamen was to go from England to the Caribbean because that was a major route of merchant ...

Pirates have kidnapped 12 crew members from a Swiss cargo vessel in Nigerian waters. Massoel Shipping said its vessel, MV Glarus, was carrying wheat from Lniagos to Port Harcourt when it was ...

Another 19th century Polish pirate of the Caribbean was Ignacy Blumer. Even before the end of the Saint-Domingue campaign he and a group of Polish legionaries left Hispaniola aboard a ship he received ...