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<p>207.69.139.154: /* SCA Pirates */</p> <hr /> <div>What most people think of as a '''pirate''' - tricorne [[hat]] or bandanna, [[wood]]en leg, [[gold]] [[coin|dubloon]]s, skull and crossbones [[flag]], [[rum]] etc. - didn't exist until at least the [[17th century]]. However raiders or pirates certainly plied their trade earlier. Some just looked like a slightly more outrageous version of a [[courtier]] of the time, or when at sea were fairly indistiguishable from other [[sailor|seamen]] or mariners.<br /> <br /> ==Famous Pirates==<br /> *[[Sir]] [[Francis Drake]]<br /> *[[Wikipedia:Grace_o%27malley|Gr&amp;aacute;inne Ni Mh&amp;aacute;ille (Grace O'Malley)]]<br /> *[[Wikipedia:Barbarossa_%28Ottoman_admiral%29|Khair ad Din (Barbarossa)]]<br /> *[[Wikipedia:List_of_pirates|More ...]]<br /> <br /> ==Your persona is a pirate==<br /> *You might call yourself a ''pirate'', ''raider'', ''[[corsair]]'', or ''adventurer'' (a [[captain]] who finances the expedition), but not bucaneer or privateer which are [[out-of-period]] terms.<br /> *Your ship may ply the waters of the [[Caribbean]], Irish, [[Baltic]], North or Mediterranean Seas or the Indian waters near [[Persia]] or in the South [[China]] Sea or Sea of [[Japan]].<br /> *[[Letter of marque|Letters of Marque]] were given in [[16th century|16th C]] [[England]], so you can operate freely against England's enemies for a small percentage [[tax]] to the [[crown]] (and what cargo they don't know about they won't miss the tax on). <br /> *If you are a [[Barbary]] [[corsair]], you will be working for the [[Ottoman Empire]] under a local governor. However, you may originate from a large variety of [[Europe]]an lands.<br /> *Your [[weapon]]s of choice during a boarding action would be short [[sword]]s like the [[cutlass]], a boarding [[axe]], a flintlock [[pistol]] or [[muskatoon]]. When ashore you would prefer a short [[knife]] and/or belaying pin.<br /> *You are probably male, but could be a female captain if you had the [[money]] (and didn't care about your reputation)<br /> *This is probably not a full-time career - you're either a seaman on [[merchant]] trips or a gentleman when not on expedition<br /> *At sea you [[clothing|dress]] sensibly like a [[sailor|mariner]] of the day - warm clothing, long [[shirt]], [[canvas]] slops (baggy [[breeches]]), [[leather]] or [[canvas]] sleeveless [[jerkin]], warm [[thrumm]] [[cap]] and depending on the region you are sailing in you may or may not wear shoes.<br /> *When you go ashore you display the sucess of your mission - wearing the most outrageous and expensive clothes you've managed to [[plunder]], or bought with your booty. These might be drawn from different cultures, but all reflect the styles available in your chosen region and time.<br /> *If you are a [[gentleman]], your expedition pirating might give you some wonderful stories to tell at dinner parties for the next year.<br /> <br /> ==Good references==<br /> * Jan Rogozinski, &quot;The Wordsworth Dictionary of Pirates&quot;, ISBN 1-85326-384-2<br /> *http://www.skraeling.sca.org/xiphias/newsletter/V4-1-pirate.html: SCA-targetted information about late period pirates, with varying degrees of accuracy<br /> *[[Wikipedia:Piracy]]<br /> [[category:occupation (medieval)]]<br /> <br /> ==SCA Pirates==<br /> *[[Barking Spyder]]<br /> *[[Drunken Skull]]<br /> *[[The Flying Ypotryll]]<br /> *[[Golden Peacock]]<br /> *[[Cocomoré de Manió]][http://www.cocomoredemanio.com/]</div>

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