But the British captain chasing them unleashed a broadside of cannon fire, taking out the pirate sloop’s boom. Most of the crew had been hanged. Would she go to the gallows, too? Anne Bonny’s ...

He strung the pirate’s head from the boat’s bowsprit, where it dangled as the sloop sailed back to Virginia with 14 prisoners ...

One of those ships, he said, was commanded by somebody called Edward Thach [sic]; the other sloop’s leader was the pirate Benjamin Hornigold, a well-known outlaw with a sizable fleet.

To intimidate their attackers, the pirates began shooting at the approaching ... Maynard replied that he designed to come aboard with his sloop as soon as he could, and Teach, understanding ...

Bellamy’s daring and charisma soon allowed him to rise to become a very different sort of pirate. The captain of the sloop Bonita, captured in November 1716, testified that Bellamy’s pirates ...

"This is the home of the river pirates," Cohen said ... He murdered the crew of an oyster sloop, threw the bodies overboard, and tried to sink the ship, but it didn't go down.

They talked about his pirate rambles and last bloody spree, when he killed the crew of an oyster sloop in New York Harbor, then got away with a sack of money. What followed was a great manhunt ...

"The Hidden History of Pirates." The program used historical documents, input from experts, and re-enactments featuring local actors and others aboard the sloop Providence. 75TH ANNIVERSARY ...

“You may see by our colors we are no pirates,” Maynard, whose sloop was flying the British flag, responded. Blackbeard taunted Maynard to come aboard his boat, to which Maynard implied that he ...