In less than a century we shall all be dead; if we keep anything, it's only our memories. As the great Sir Henry Morgan once said, I choose the short life, and the merry one.
@@hostoftheseawitch3431 i dont think its possible to know when the world would end but i know what your saying we should live life to the fullest in a good way i mean.
I think it's a pitiful sign of the times that this channel begs for approval from strangers while its writers can't seem to use even the most basic elementary-school-level possessive forms of words. Butchering basic English language, which is in itself endorsing cultural regression and the dumbing-down of modern society, is a disgusting display of ignorance. Screw your channel, amd every bit of its content.
Considering that all the negative aspects of pirate life (weevils, bad water, heat, darkness, smell) would also apply to common sailors, I would certainly pick the life of a pirate!
There were a fair few situations where your life expectancy wasn't too great doing perfectly legal stuff in those days anyway so for those people a few years as a pirate was a positive step up in the world. If you'd ended up in indentured servitude or an apprenticeship in a bad situation were two such situations. Once you were away from the British isles the terms of your servitude weren't always adhered to, you could be brutalised, not fed, incarcerated, they might not let you go at the end of your contract, you could be in a place where people were dying of disease constantly. You could just be let go after your servitude with no means of transportation anywhere else, no food or shelter. Ships captains could be brutal and/or incompetent. The political situation could suddenly change leaving you destitute or in serious danger. You could have been robbed, cheated, whatever. Lots of ways of having a seriously bad day then.
The story about how "Grog" got its name is interesting, too. It was named for the "grogram" coat always worn by Capt. Edward Vernon, who had the responsible habit of watering down the rum reserves on the Royal Navy ships he commanded. Note that Capt. Vernon was stationed at Jamaica for several years and prob. knew the Thache family, who were fairly affluent folks!
Hey, i liked the video, it was interesting to watch. I think it depends on each person, but the pirates probably didnt have much future in normal society anyways. This way they could enjoy their short life rather than living in poverty in some ditch and probably dying early anyways.
In many areas, you had a chance of being pressed into naval service regardless, so your choice may end up being as simple as "do I follow the rules or not?"
Pirates were just criminals of the day, ie robbing, hijacking, slavery etc Romanticisation of Pirates is what most people do. In reality they killed each other. Avast ye matey, walk the plank and be sent ye into Davey Jones' Locker! Is not acctually how pirates talked, iirc it's from Robert Louis Stevenson Treasure Island that popularised the 'pirate speak'
Replying to a year old comment here.. 😅 I just finished the book 👍.. although I skipped a lot of parts because of the style of language. It still was addictive seeing a first hand account of how things were back then. The part where they were semi lost rounding the cape, and he had to climb the rigging to beat the ice off of the sails..... wow
It was worth it probably. Being a sailor was an unpopular profession, so one of the typical recruiting practices was the press gang. Press gangs would find men of suitable age and "press them" into serving as a crew member. Life would be so miserable that pirates could openly recruit new sailors from the crews of the ships they attacked. Ships didn't regularly fight back against pirates, mainly because morale would've been so bad that the captain would be mutinied if he tried.
YO-HO, YO-HO - A PIRATE'S LIFE FOR ME !" Life for anyone in that era was pretty miserable - unless you happened to be born into the aristocracy. Piracy - even with it's downsides - must have been viewed as an exciting, profitable option by many men. The fact that pirates often recruited sailors from ships they attacked is proof that a lot of honest men "jumped ship" !
I actually read somewhere that most people had better life on pirate ships than on port royal navy. Pirates actually could vote for their captain but in port royal navy most people were slaves
@@ciemny9410 Aristocracy had their own problems. Constant worries of uprisings, wars, loosing their positions and even life. The higher you are the more people want to take your place.
Very well made video. Makes you wonder, if there are degrees of quality of ship life for pirates, which pirate ship had the highest quality? Who do you think was the best captain to sail under?
I’m glad you like the videos! Most of that show is heavily fictionalized or just outright wrong. Within the first 60 seconds they quote the Golden Age of Piracy began after the 1715 plate fleet wreck. Maybe one day I’ll do a video covering what they messed up.
Off topic, but I drink prune juice sometimes in a mug or glass while brushing up on pirate lore because I like it 😁 but also because I always imagine that's what Madeira wine would look and taste like. I've never had it myself but would like to try the different varieties some day. I'm not much of a drinker, otherwise I might go for rum or a hot toddy. 😜 Don't want to end up like Capn Flint, Billy Bones, Henry Morgan, etc. etc. - if the pirate life didn't getcha, "the rum" seemed to (or the rum aspect of the pirate life).
Dear God. I always think that too. How trade even got through to its markets is a wonder to me. Being a merchant ship, might as well have had a target on your back.
I can hardly ever watch any video about life prior to 1960 without being preoccupied with heat, smells and cleanliness. Being born in the 1960s and growing up in the South, I am addicted to cleanliness and air conditioning. I look at some soldier in a movie from the civil war just someone living life in the summer in the 1890s and wonder HOW they EVER got anything done wearing a thick, heavy DARK uniform on a day when it was 110 in the shade!? Or sleep at night, 85 degrees, not a breath of breeze. NO A/C! This video confirmed all my suspicions and hypothesis about shipboard life in the days of sail. And told me a few things I didn't know, so Kudos!
Back then, people were accustomed to more natural hardships. We grew up in South Florida during the 1950's, before A/C for homes was widespread, and learned to sleep with windows wide open and old box fans cranked up high (no ceiling fans either !)..
@@marytica123 Oh, I know. Our houses in the 60's had the ceiling fans but we used the AC. Though WE had AC in the 60's (my father said he'd decided early in life that if he could afford it we WOULD have AC!) almost everyone around us did NOT here in Central Louisiana. When I slept over at friends houses or we visited family (where my dad was raised) 150 miles south below Lafayette, La., we would stay over and often there was not even a FAN. Just open windows and crickets. Woke up in soaked sheets next morning. I asked my dad (Born in 1920) and mom how they lived in the beastly heat back then and they both said much as you did, they just DID. Really no other choice. But later in my late teens I did like my dad had done and made my own 1979 declaration in the middle of a winter ICE STORM: when I grew up I'd have a GENERATOR. It took to the late 90's for them to be affordable but I got one the first hurricane that bothered us this far north of the coast. Good luck to you!
They got it done because they WERE men. People today and like you can't understand that because today are soft as butter. As a Viet Nam vet I'm thankful that you weren't with me.
Oh, a pirate's life is a wonderful life A-rovin' over the sea Give me a career as a buccaneer It's the life of a pirate for me Oh, the life of a pirate for me!* JK. I would've tried to work at a tavern, bakery or inn. Making food and drink to sell to all the landlubbers and seafarers in a port town. That's the best I can think of for a decent and stable quality of life in that scary, unhygienic, disease ridden and dangerous time period. Speaking of hygiene, maybe the taverns wouldn't be so great and the bakery would be the better deal. * From Disney's Peter Pan, folks! (for those that don't recognize it, which for this crowd, are probably very few). 😁
We have to realize that we are very fortunate to live in this era where you have so many technologies that they didn't have in the past. Refrigeration, cars, toilets (instead of outhouses) fast food, air planes to travel, electricity, AC... But then again, comfort breeds lazyness and entitlement, and if all electronics go out, we're pretty much screwed. So there's also a downside to technology.
I am not a pirate, but I long to be, Sailing by the stars across the seven seas, Living with no earthly cares, my mates and me- The envy of all worldly men, who are not free.
I have a shitty poor life but when I think about what it was like back then before we got comfy, man I still feel shitty but I understand how much better I still have it. #Yohoyohoapirateslifeforme
Today’s standards, maybe. Who the heck wants to live a long life miserable and poor? A short life and a merry one is still a very relevant line of thinking today I feel like.
You have such an awesome channel, greetings from South Africa, my wife made a hard tack video on our channel awhile back, good survival food too but it'll do a number on your teeth if not soaked as you mentioned and it basically has the nutritional value of lettuce xD . Have a lovely week!
Pirates were also the only free men in the world. ( free poor men, men from small peasant families ) They got to live life as free or more free then the majority of humanity, and didn’t have lo live like a boot locker
As someone who has worked in hot physical environments, deodorant only does so much. If you have ever worked physical jobs you’ll only smell yourself over other people’s smells. You will stink just as much as what’s around you. Garbage men get pretty used to the smell after a while. It is amazing how humans can adapt to terrible situations.
@@ThePiratesPortwithout looking it up for this comment, I remember reading about Ziryab (spelling?) the famous musician in Cordoba during the Moorish rule of southern Spain. Apparently he was a trend setter in lots of ways including inventing deodorant. But whatever it was they used, it sounds like it didn't make it's way to the new world centuries later or that stuff just wasn't available there / then, etc. I guess I'm just pointing out that it has been invented and even possibly so already in other regions and eras of world history too, little known and or lost to time.
Twice-daily Grog rations were given to Royal Navy sailors until 1970. It was only then that the British Parliament had enough of it and declared that the last Grog ration was to be handed out on the 30th of July that same year. -A day that is now known as Black Tot Day. One part sour, two parts sweet, three parts strong, and four parts weak. That was the original rule of thumb for Navy Grog in the British Navy. Hereby, sour means lime/lemon juice, sweet refers to sugar, strong stands for Rum, and weak for water. Royal Navy rum was usually about 95 proof
Grog didn't come around until 1740 after the golden age of piracy was over. It wasn't 3 parts rum to 4 parts water either. Originally it was just water-to-rum ratio of 4:1 but adding sugar and limes was left up to the individual sailors to give it a better taste.
Probably they'd have been kept in a sailors possessions if they bothered to bring any. Pirates weren't quartered on their ships and they usually weren't out to sea for very long.
Aye, a pirates life for me. Freedom as an outlaw yet truly free as a man. Yes being hunted by governments and another criminals a like may stear others away but Freedom is not free it will cost your life or soul.
Honest question: Did they really pick out the larva? I would think the bugs provided some much needed protein, and I know that many civilizations ate/eat insects, so I'm surprised that malnurished sailors wouldn't eat them. Maybe the types of bugs (like weevils) aren't safe to eat?
I tend to never say never but, it would have been the norm to pick them out for the most part. Sailors were fed better than most people of the age since they needed the energy to do the work so they wouldn't have been that hard pressed to eat them.
Read in a novel once: Scotsman abducted into Royal Navy. Royal Navy ship finds pirate ship. Fights. Loses. Scotsman gets a choice: swim or become a pirate. Thus a pirate was made.
Being a pirate in the clan system was a bit more different as it was more of the Viking way. My clan lead at the time in the sixteenth century not only the famous pirate in my clan but also the Outer Hebrides of Scotland the 35th chieftain Ruari the Turbulent who were known as the last of the Vikings.
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Hope you all enjoy this weeks video! Do you think a life of piracy was worth the risk?
In less than a century we shall all be dead; if we keep anything, it's only our memories. As the great Sir Henry Morgan once said, I choose the short life, and the merry one.
Nah man i rather work in the land.
@@hostoftheseawitch3431 i dont think its possible to know when the world would end but i know what your saying we should live life to the fullest in a good way i mean.
Hell no! But you get a like because you have Jack Rackham's flag to wrap it all up. 😉
I think it's a pitiful sign of the times that this channel begs for approval from strangers while its writers can't seem to use even the most basic elementary-school-level possessive forms of words.
Butchering basic English language, which is in itself endorsing cultural regression and the dumbing-down of modern society, is a disgusting display of ignorance.
Screw your channel, amd every bit of its content.
I was in the Navy for 6 years and spent 4 months at sea. It was hard enough, can't imagine what sailors in the 17th and 18th century went through.
6yrs in the canoe club and only 4mos at sea? Man how did you pull that off?
@@stevewixom9311 I'm was an FMF Corpsman, spent most of my time with the Marines. I'd take being in Syria over being at sea, lol.
@@EzraB123 Corpsman, the grunts best friend. Thanks doc!! SFMF 🦅🌎⚓️
It was hard for you bcoz you have seen comfort of modern world
@Xiuhcoatl thank you brother 🇺🇸
I’ve been fascinated by pirates since age 5. I’m 38 now. I’ve been on modern ships that stunk I can only imagine how much worse it would be back then
Same here!
@@ThePiratesPort I love your work! I honestly didn’t know that Blackbeard wasn’t really Teach!
Well the credit for that discovery goes to Baylus Brooks but I'm glad you enjoy the content!
Considering that all the negative aspects of pirate life (weevils, bad water, heat, darkness, smell) would also apply to common sailors, I would certainly pick the life of a pirate!
you’d spend 1-2 days living the pirate life and immediately regret your life choices
Not if you had to do it out necessity to survive like my clan did back in those day's
@@edwardneilloftheclanmacnei7057 you come from great Viking people
@@creamythroat do you personally know him/her?
considering that I was in the modern Navy.. I really couldn't imagine being a sailor back then. It would have been horrible haha
Such an underrated, high effort channel.
Thanks!
There were a fair few situations where your life expectancy wasn't too great doing perfectly legal stuff in those days anyway so for those people a few years as a pirate was a positive step up in the world. If you'd ended up in indentured servitude or an apprenticeship in a bad situation were two such situations. Once you were away from the British isles the terms of your servitude weren't always adhered to, you could be brutalised, not fed, incarcerated, they might not let you go at the end of your contract, you could be in a place where people were dying of disease constantly. You could just be let go after your servitude with no means of transportation anywhere else, no food or shelter. Ships captains could be brutal and/or incompetent. The political situation could suddenly change leaving you destitute or in serious danger. You could have been robbed, cheated, whatever. Lots of ways of having a seriously bad day then.
The story about how "Grog" got its name is interesting, too. It was named for the "grogram" coat always worn by Capt. Edward Vernon, who had the responsible habit of watering down the rum reserves on the Royal Navy ships he commanded. Note that Capt. Vernon was stationed at Jamaica for several years and prob. knew the Thache family, who were fairly affluent folks!
Grog was made by rumming water as a disinfectant.... not watering rum down
Read Admiral Vernon
Hey, i liked the video, it was interesting to watch.
I think it depends on each person, but the pirates probably didnt have much future in normal society anyways. This way they could enjoy their short life rather than living in poverty in some ditch and probably dying early anyways.
I'm glad you liked the video!
In many areas, you had a chance of being pressed into naval service regardless, so your choice may end up being as simple as "do I follow the rules or not?"
Pirates were just criminals of the day, ie robbing, hijacking, slavery etc Romanticisation of Pirates is what most people do. In reality they killed each other.
Avast ye matey, walk the plank and be sent ye into Davey Jones' Locker!
Is not acctually how pirates talked, iirc it's from Robert Louis Stevenson Treasure Island that popularised the 'pirate speak'
Dude half way through this video I got a strong urge to play ac black flag. I hope my adhd does not interrupt this enthusiasm I have rn
This was awesome. Straight to the point and quick yet efficient. Thank you!!!
Short life fun times
Not as a pirate, but life at sea can be read about in: Two Years Before the Mast: memoir by Richard Henry Dana Jr., published in 1840.
Absolutely a great book and it is true about life at sea at the time.
I remember reading it in comic book form as a kid - 'Classics Illustrated' as i recall...a good introduction !
thank you for sharing with us
Replying to a year old comment here.. 😅
I just finished the book 👍.. although I skipped a lot of parts because of the style of language.
It still was addictive seeing a first hand account of how things were back then.
The part where they were semi lost rounding the cape, and he had to climb the rigging to beat the ice off of the sails..... wow
It was worth it probably. Being a sailor was an unpopular profession, so one of the typical recruiting practices was the press gang. Press gangs would find men of suitable age and "press them" into serving as a crew member. Life would be so miserable that pirates could openly recruit new sailors from the crews of the ships they attacked. Ships didn't regularly fight back against pirates, mainly because morale would've been so bad that the captain would be mutinied if he tried.
Pirates life for me! Great video
Amazing content. You can tell you did your research, and you're a great narrator. As an author, thank you so much for this hard work.
Thanks so much! Glad you enjoyed it.
This channel is great . Cheers to you my guy
Thanks!
YO-HO, YO-HO - A PIRATE'S LIFE FOR ME !" Life for anyone in that era was pretty miserable - unless you happened to be born into the aristocracy. Piracy - even with it's downsides - must have been viewed as an exciting, profitable option by many men. The fact that pirates often recruited sailors from ships they attacked is proof that a lot of honest men "jumped ship" !
I actually read somewhere that most people had better life on pirate ships than on port royal navy. Pirates actually could vote for their captain but in port royal navy most people were slaves
@@ciemny9410 Aristocracy had their own problems. Constant worries of uprisings, wars, loosing their positions and even life. The higher you are the more people want to take your place.
Yes! The trade-up is totally worth it! Especially the shorter life part!
As much as I would prefer a shorter life, in a pirates case it might be too short, could probably die in 20s or 30s.
Very well made video. Makes you wonder, if there are degrees of quality of ship life for pirates, which pirate ship had the highest quality? Who do you think was the best captain to sail under?
The story goes that Bartholomew was living luxurious and loved tea. I don't know how his crew had it, but it would be a bet!
Love this channel. I've just watched the lost pirate kingdom on Netflix. I was like my man already told me all of this
I’m glad you like the videos! Most of that show is heavily fictionalized or just outright wrong. Within the first 60 seconds they quote the Golden Age of Piracy began after the 1715 plate fleet wreck. Maybe one day I’ll do a video covering what they messed up.
@@ThePiratesPort that would be a great idea. Thanks and thanks for the videos.
This was everything I've been wanting to know! Thanks!
Very interesting and well presented.
Okay I’m subscribing now lol 😂
Subscribed. Great idea for a channel.
I like the video about famous pirates. Hope to see more if this.
Very well made video. Great voice, images and info. Loved it!
Thank you!
This was a really good video. it covered alot of ground and didn't waste alot of time doing it
Thanks!
Off topic, but I drink prune juice sometimes in a mug or glass while brushing up on pirate lore because I like it 😁 but also because I always imagine that's what Madeira wine would look and taste like. I've never had it myself but would like to try the different varieties some day. I'm not much of a drinker, otherwise I might go for rum or a hot toddy. 😜 Don't want to end up like Capn Flint, Billy Bones, Henry Morgan, etc. etc.
- if the pirate life didn't getcha, "the rum" seemed to (or the rum aspect of the pirate life).
Madeira wine tastes a lot like a fruity port or sherry 😉
@@MagralhoPT thanks!
Great research, so interesting!
No fat video. Nice job!
love this channel! yarrr!
Most dangerous job right there! Also, this how certain families vanished from history!
compared to being a sailor fora merchant ship, YES. Great videos here!
Dear God. I always think that too. How trade even got through to its markets is a wonder to me. Being a merchant ship, might as well have had a target on your back.
love those paintings
“a short life and a merry one” i like that
great video
Im gonna build my home office to look like the living quarters of a pirate captain. Such a dank vibe.
Great video. I always dreamed myself more a Viking than Pirate. I think only the head Vikings lived well though. Lol.. At that time yea worth it.
Why u got no likes man u do ur best love ur videos man
Such a great video! Thank you!
Thanks!
I can hardly ever watch any video about life prior to 1960 without being preoccupied with heat, smells and cleanliness. Being born in the 1960s and growing up in the South, I am addicted to cleanliness and air conditioning. I look at some soldier in a movie from the civil war just someone living life in the summer in the 1890s and wonder HOW they EVER got anything done wearing a thick, heavy DARK uniform on a day when it was 110 in the shade!? Or sleep at night, 85 degrees, not a breath of breeze. NO A/C! This video confirmed all my suspicions and hypothesis about shipboard life in the days of sail. And told me a few things I didn't know, so Kudos!
Back then, people were accustomed to more natural hardships. We grew up in South Florida during the 1950's, before A/C for homes was widespread, and learned to sleep with windows wide open and old box fans cranked up high (no ceiling fans either !)..
@@marytica123 Oh, I know. Our houses in the 60's had the ceiling fans but we used the AC. Though WE had AC in the 60's (my father said he'd decided early in life that if he could afford it we WOULD have AC!) almost everyone around us did NOT here in Central Louisiana. When I slept over at friends houses or we visited family (where my dad was raised) 150 miles south below Lafayette, La., we would stay over and often there was not even a FAN. Just open windows and crickets. Woke up in soaked sheets next morning. I asked my dad (Born in 1920) and mom how they lived in the beastly heat back then and they both said much as you did, they just DID. Really no other choice. But later in my late teens I did like my dad had done and made my own 1979 declaration in the middle of a winter ICE STORM: when I grew up I'd have a GENERATOR. It took to the late 90's for them to be affordable but I got one the first hurricane that bothered us this far north of the coast. Good luck to you!
They got it done because they WERE men. People today and like you can't understand that because today are soft as butter. As a Viet Nam vet I'm thankful that you weren't with me.
Worth it!
Cant even imagine fighting sea monsters, sea emperors, opposing the marine admirals, training your inner haki, eating devil fruits. Wait
Regarding 3:29, the toilet on a ship is called "the head", because it was located at the bow of the ship.
I vouch for this video as i am 16 century pirate myself 🐙
Yooooooooo!
The life of a pirate for me!!!
Great video 🍻🍻
Thanks
Discovered a great channel here.
"A merry life and a short one; that's all the optimism I can muster"
Oh, a pirate's life is a wonderful life
A-rovin' over the sea
Give me a career as a buccaneer
It's the life of a pirate for me
Oh, the life of a pirate for me!*
JK. I would've tried to work at a tavern, bakery or inn. Making food and drink to sell to all the landlubbers and seafarers in a port town. That's the best I can think of for a decent and stable quality of life in that scary, unhygienic, disease ridden and dangerous time period. Speaking of hygiene, maybe the taverns wouldn't be so great and the bakery would be the better deal.
* From Disney's Peter Pan, folks! (for those that don't recognize it, which for this crowd, are probably very few). 😁
Pirate for life, totally worth it.
Very informative thanks
Glad you liked it James!
Interesting video
We have to realize that we are very fortunate to live in this era where you have so many technologies that they didn't have in the past. Refrigeration, cars, toilets (instead of outhouses) fast food, air planes to travel, electricity, AC... But then again, comfort breeds lazyness and entitlement, and if all electronics go out, we're pretty much screwed. So there's also a downside to technology.
It’s insane how well most people have it nowadays
I am not a pirate, but I long to be,
Sailing by the stars across the seven seas,
Living with no earthly cares, my mates and me-
The envy of all worldly men, who are not free.
Well having been a pirate in a past life I really enjoyed it😂
Just go to an outpost and get fruit from the barrels, you can go the merchants guild and buy a storage crate and basically jack the whole island.
From pooping to sleeping, it would be a tough life.
As long as I can smoke my green and the music is good; I would definitely choose this life in the event of the world ending.
I have a shitty poor life but when I think about what it was like back then before we got comfy, man I still feel shitty but I understand how much better I still have it. #Yohoyohoapirateslifeforme
Blackbeard, Aka Edward Teach hailed from my home city of Bristol. Rich pirate port back in the day
I heard they sail ships like mussel cars are driven today!⚓
Today’s standards, maybe. Who the heck wants to live a long life miserable and poor? A short life and a merry one is still a very relevant line of thinking today I feel like.
Right. The advancement of medicine allowed us to live way past our expiration day
You have such an awesome channel, greetings from South Africa, my wife made a hard tack video on our channel awhile back, good survival food too but it'll do a number on your teeth if not soaked as you mentioned and it basically has the nutritional value of lettuce xD . Have a lovely week!
Thanks for the kind words! I really appreciate that!
@@ThePiratesPort Just binged some of your content and really enjoy the adventures on the high seas! Thank you.
Pirates were also the only free men in the world. ( free poor men, men from small peasant families )
They got to live life as free or more free then the majority of humanity, and didn’t have lo live like a boot locker
🏴☠️🏴☠️🏴☠️🏴☠️🏴☠️🏴☠️🏴☠️
When I grow up , I want to be a pirate. Argggghhh !!
This video should be named "20 reasons why Piracy was not as cool as you thought"
Nice....
I’ve got an early 1800’s grog barrel that was used the Royal Navy. They had daily rations. I swear it still smells of rum
That’s awesome!
Yoo Hoo Yoo Hoooo
A PIRATES LIFE FOR ME!
BUC-CAN-EERS! GO BUCS!
As someone who has worked in hot physical environments, deodorant only does so much. If you have ever worked physical jobs you’ll only smell yourself over other people’s smells. You will stink just as much as what’s around you.
Garbage men get pretty used to the smell after a while. It is amazing how humans can adapt to terrible situations.
I worked as a roofer the summer after i graduated highschool so I absolutely know what you mean.
@@ThePiratesPortwithout looking it up for this comment, I remember reading about Ziryab (spelling?) the famous musician in Cordoba during the Moorish rule of southern Spain. Apparently he was a trend setter in lots of ways including inventing deodorant. But whatever it was they used, it sounds like it didn't make it's way to the new world centuries later or that stuff just wasn't available there / then, etc. I guess I'm just pointing out that it has been invented and even possibly so already in other regions and eras of world history too, little known and or lost to time.
I got that AC4: Black Flag reference from that pic 😂
Awesome
I can’t even imagine being a ship that long.. I bet the smell was ridiculous like hot a$$
Short and merry life works for me
How lovely!
Twice-daily Grog rations were given to Royal Navy sailors until 1970. It was only then that the British Parliament had enough of it and declared that the last Grog ration was to be handed out on the 30th of July that same year. -A day that is now known as Black Tot Day.
One part sour, two parts sweet, three parts strong, and four parts weak. That was the original rule of thumb for Navy Grog in the British Navy. Hereby, sour means lime/lemon juice, sweet refers to sugar, strong stands for Rum, and weak for water. Royal Navy rum was usually about 95 proof
Grog didn't come around until 1740 after the golden age of piracy was over. It wasn't 3 parts rum to 4 parts water either. Originally it was just water-to-rum ratio of 4:1 but adding sugar and limes was left up to the individual sailors to give it a better taste.
@@ThePiratesPort How would lemon and limes be preserved? Just kept in a cool damp place in the ship for as long as they last?
Probably they'd have been kept in a sailors possessions if they bothered to bring any. Pirates weren't quartered on their ships and they usually weren't out to sea for very long.
Aye, a pirates life for me. Freedom as an outlaw yet truly free as a man. Yes being hunted by governments and another criminals a like may stear others away but Freedom is not free it will cost your life or soul.
Your soul too? Damn. Personally my life is where i draw the limit..
Should use scenes from assassinscreed black flags for your visuals
I guess it would depend on the circumstance whether it was worth it or not.
So basically pirates were bad ass!
Pirates were the intimate survivalists
Honest question: Did they really pick out the larva? I would think the bugs provided some much needed protein, and I know that many civilizations ate/eat insects, so I'm surprised that malnurished sailors wouldn't eat them. Maybe the types of bugs (like weevils) aren't safe to eat?
I tend to never say never but, it would have been the norm to pick them out for the most part. Sailors were fed better than most people of the age since they needed the energy to do the work so they wouldn't have been that hard pressed to eat them.
Sounds like a fun life
You won't know comfort until you have it, you won't appreciate freedom until you lose it . 🏴☠️🇺🇸
Mr. Port I'm afraid there's been rumor among the crew....of mutiny
Getting info because I’m finding the one peice
Just makes me wanna be more of pirate
Good
"Ouch!"
So where do I click for the free movies?
Jean Lafitte partied in New Orleans on his off days.🤣🤣😮
okay so being a pirate does not sound so glorious
nice comentary
"Wow!"
"Sharks!?" 🦈
Read in a novel once: Scotsman abducted into Royal Navy. Royal Navy ship finds pirate ship. Fights. Loses. Scotsman gets a choice: swim or become a pirate. Thus a pirate was made.
Rum was used to purify water at Sea
"A pirate's life for me!"...words sung only by people who haven't watched this video.
How did they feed the cows and goats at sea?
They would have brought along hay for the animals.
I'm sure animals aboard would've added nicely to the bilge water.
whats the name of the painting in the thumbnail?
Being a pirate in the clan system was a bit more different as it was more of the Viking way. My clan lead at the time in the sixteenth century not only the famous pirate in my clan but also the Outer Hebrides of Scotland the 35th chieftain Ruari the Turbulent who were known as the last of the Vikings.