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Pirates Creed of Ethics
About the year 1640 the pirates formed a kind of democratic confraternity. Their vows formed the Custom of the Brothers of the Coast, often called the Pirates Creed of Ethics. It was in fact the social contract of the expedition. It was always signed by the whole ship's company before any departure when the elected Captain and the officers prepared a charter-party. Every decision of importance was discussed, followed by a vote. Courage alone conferred distinction. a pirate ship was an extremely well-ordered floating community.
1. Ye Captain shall have full command during the time of engagement, and shall have authority at all other times to conduct the ship accordingly. He who disobeys him may be punished unless the majority vote against the punishment.
2. If ye Captain's vessel is shipwrecked, the crew pledges to remain until he has possessed himself of a vessel. If the vessel is the common property of the crew, the first vessel captured shall belong to ye Captain with one share of the spoil.
3. Ye ship's surgeon shall have two hundred crowns for the maintenance of his medicine chest and he shall receive one part of the spoil.
4. Ye other officers will receive each single part, and if ye distinguish yourself, the crew will determine how much reward to be given to ye.
5. Ye spoil taken from a captured ship is to be distributed in equal portion.
6. Ye who shall be the first to signal the appearance of the vessel that is captured, shall receive 100 hundred crowns.
7. If ye lose an eye, or a hand or leg in ye said service, ye shall receive up to six slaves or six hundred crowns.
8. Ye supplies and rations are to be shared equally.
9. If ye introduce on board a woman in disguise, ye shall be punished to death.
10. If one Brother steals from another, his nose or ears are to be cut off. If he sins again, he is to be given a musket, powder, lead and a bottle of water and marooned on an island.
11. If there is any doubt in a dispute between ye Brothers, a court of honor is to decide the verdict. If a Brother is proved in the wrong, the first time he shall be pardoned, but should he offend again, he shall be tied to a gun, and there shall receive from each of the ship's company one strike of the lash. The same punishment shall be given to ye among us, including officers, who shall get drunk, while on the ship, to the point of losing ye senses.
12. Whoever shall be placed on sentry, and upon his post shall go to sleep, shall in the first case be lashed by all the Brothers, and should he again offend, his head shall be split.
13. All ye who shall plot to desert, or having deserted shall be captured, shall have ye heads split open.
14. Quarrels between several Brothers whilst aboard ye ship shall be settled ashore with pistol and sword. He that draws first blood shall be the victor. No striking another whilst aboard ye ship.
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Want To Talk Like A Pirate?
Landlubber - a sailor's name for someone who has never been at sea.
"Shiver me timbers!" - an expression of surprise.
Buccaneer - a kind of pirate that sailed the Caribbean in the 1600's.
Port - a sailor's word for "left".
Starboard - a sailor's word for "right".
"Yo ho ho!" - an expression used by jolly pirates.
"Land ho!" - "I see land".
Scurvy - a disease caused by lack of vitamin C.
"Weigh anchor!" - "Haul up the anchor and set sail!"
Merchantman - a trading ship loaded with cargo.
Prize - a captured ship.
Sea legs - as soon as sailors were able to walk easily across the rolling deck and not get seasick, they had their "sea legs".
"Swab the deck!" - "mop the ship's deck.
"about the leaks!" - an order to fix the leaks in the hull.
Barnacle - a small shellfish that attaches itself to underside of the ship.
Broadside - a blast from all the guns and cannons on one side of a ship.
Calico - brightly colored cotton fabric.
Careen - to pull a ship onto its side in order to clean its hull. Usually on a sandy beach with a great tide variance.
Cargo - the goods carried by a ship.
Code of conduct - a set of rules that told pirates how they should behave.
Deserted - describing a place where no people live.
Duel - a fight between two people armed with swords or pistols.
Figurehead - a carving of a person, usually of wood, on the front of a ship.
Galleon - a large ship, usually with three masts, square sails and lots of guns.
Galley - a ship that uses oars to move.
Harbor - a place where ships are sheltered from rough waves.
Maroon - to leave someone on a deserted island.
Mock trial - a game in which pirates pretend to be judges, lawyers and prisoners in a courtroom.
Pardon - to excuse a person's crimes.
Pillory - a wooden frame with holes to hold a person's head and hands (stocks).
Pistol - a gun that is held in one hand.
Privateer - a pirate loyal to the king, queen, or government of a country.
Schooner - a ship with triangular sails and two or more masts, the foremast the shorter one.
Sloop - a sailboat with a single mast and two sails.
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Pirates steal Oaklanders hearts with song —
Crooning mariners create ruckus at local bar every Thursday night.
By Angela Hill, OAKLAND TRIBUNE, STAFF WRITER
Article Last Updated: 12/16/2006 07:57:07 AM PDT
OAKLAND - MAKING TIMELY passage into a barnacled waterfront bar, westward from the Embarcadero in Oakland, 'tis there was said to play a raucous band of mostly mariners, and 'twas truth that be told.
There be pirates of the croonin persuasion.Yahhr.
A couple hundred years too late to be plundering the seven seas, but long before Johnny Depp conquered the deep of our seafaring souls, the men of the Starboard Watch got hooked by the lure of the sea chantey. And it has been nigh on 15 years that this small band in various incarnations has been strummin and singin salty old nautical songs every Thursday night at L.J. Quinn's Lighthouse to a bursting hold of chantey groupies.
Theyve now taken over the Germans too, with a full-ahead pirate party the first Friday of every month atSpeisekammer restaurant in Alameda. (Guests get a free rum drink if they go in full pirate regalia. Yo ho ho and a free drink of rum.)
Weathered and wily, a damn tough life of toil and strife or maybe not yet still seeking gold and glory, the men of the Watch give and get a roarin, rippin, rummin good time.
Eight bells, 8 p.m., and all was well Thursday when they launched into their musical lore. Six of'em this time, but it can be five or eight, depending on who shows up on a given night. This time a squeezebox player, a banjo man, a bass, a fiddle, a pennywhistle and a backup singer to boot. They acquiesced to a flood of requests, crooning songs about a whaler and many a drunken sailor, or Homeward bound on the Arctic round, rollin down to Old Maui. Not sure if its singing, though, so much as growling and shouting. A raucous Rex Harrison kind of technique.
Their skippers a mighty sailin' man. His mates be brave and sure.
Are you Skip? a newbie swabbie queried.
"What's left of 'im," Skip snarled and slurred, sippin a shot o whisky that may not have been the first of the night. He's Skip Henderson, a seaman from way back, singer and squeezebox player. Won't reveal his age, but looks as though he's lived life at 100 knots. His hair, silver as seafoam, slips out from his captain's cap. Complexion appropriately ruddy and rugged. A scar under his right eye. Bar fight, mayhaps? Skip wont say for sure.
Bloody John is the newest member, singing backup. "I used to come for years with a friend of mine who was in the band, then he died and they let me in," he said. "That's pretty much the only way you can join the group. When somebody dies."
"That's why the lantern will be lit tonight," Skip added, taking down a small lantern at the window to light it. "We had some close friends George went down with a heart attack, and Lloyd to cancer." Skip and Bloody John shook their heads. A moment of silence. John sipped some rum from a goblet shaped like a skull.
Bloody John lives aboard a sailboat on the Oakland Estuary. Long black and silver hair, and full beard to match. He publishes The Music Scene, a free newspaper with articles and listings of local performances. He has also performed in the Scottish games in Northern California, which eventually turned into pirate gigs, he said. And he's now a member of the Tales of the Seven Seas pirate group.
"Pirates aren't nice people," he admitted. "But people like the spirit of the pirate for the anti-establishment sense of freedom thats involved. Freedom, that is, unless you get caught." He grinned a pirates grin.
John has the sea in his veins too "My great-grandfather stowed away on a ship out of Scotland when he was 12 and finally made his way to San Francisco. And another ancestor was at the helm of the whaleship Essex when it was whacked by a whale, becoming the inspiration for Moby Dick," he said, sipping his rum.
A few more songs, and time for a break. They sent around the tip jar. "It goes to our favorite charity", Bloody John snarled. "Us!"
The second floor bar, poised atop a fine restaurant in the historic Quinn's, is cozy as a captains cabin. Wood paneled walls, draped in buoys and knots, her floors layered with enough empty peanut shells to drive an elephant mad. Cool Bay air blows in off the estuary when someone slides open the door. Boats in the marina below bob and weave in their slips.
Tis a whale of a different club scene, to be sure. Yet packed each week, with young and old, most who know all the words and sing along.
"Way-hey up she rises, err-lye in the morrr-nin!"
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Sea Shepherd Ship The Farley Mowat Now Running As A Pirate
By Jon Sumby
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The Sea Shepherd Conservation Society flagship Farley Mowat is now officially a pirate vessel. We are at sea without a flag, in search of illegal whaling operations in hostile and remote waters at the bottom of the world.
The Farley Mowat cleared Australian Customs in Hobart, Tasmania, on December 29th, 2006, only hours before the nation of Belize struck our flag. The Belize registry had only been issued ten days before on December 19, 2006
The Belize registry was sought after Britain pulled the registry in early December the same day it was issued. In October, The Farley Mowat, registered under the Canadian flag since April, 2002, had her registry suspended by Canada.
This is all apparently part of a strategy by Japan to use its economic muscle to lean on any nation that allows us to be registered under their flag. According to a credible legal source in Melbourne, the Farley Mowat as an unregistered pirate vessel may be interdicted at will by any naval vessel of any government, its crew arrested, and the ship sunk.
"This is incredible but not surprising," responded Captain Paul Watson, "The oceans are crawling with poachers flying flags of convenience and the Japanese and Norwegian registered whalers are illegally slaughtering whales in sanctuaries and killing endangered species, yet we are forced to have our flag struck for opposing these illegal activities."
The Farley Mowat will continue on to the Southern Oceans without a flag.
"We have a mission and that mission is to save whales," said Captain Watson, "We will not surrender this ship to any navy and we will not comply with any order to cancel our campaign. If anyone wishes to stop us from protecting whales they will have to sink us. The captain and the crew of the Farley Mowat are not concerned about being called pirates."
"It was not the British Navy that ended piracy in the Caribbean, it was Captain Henry Morgan who did that and he was a pirate," Said Captain Watson, "I am proud to add my name to the long list of honourable and noble pirates like Sir Francis Drake, John Paul Jones and Jean LaFitte. To that end we have our own version of the Pretty Red or Joli Rouge and it is the crossed shepherd’s staff and Neptune’s trident under a human skull engraved with the yin and yang of a dolphin and a whale. If they want us to be pirates than we will be damn pirates but we will not abandon the whales to the agony and misery of the harpoons without a fight. We are pirates of compassion in pursuit of pirates of profit."
The Sea Shepherd Conservation Society has been opposing illegal whaling activities since 1977 and 2007 marks the 30th anniversary of Sea Shepherd high seas interventions against whalers and illegal fishing operations in the world’s oceans.
During the entire three decades of Sea Shepherd activities not one person has been injured and not one Sea Shepherd activists has been convicted of a felony crime. Sea Shepherd intervenes against illegal activities in accordance with the principles established by and contained within the United Nation World Charter for Nature.
This message is authorized by Captain Paul Watson
