Where Did Pirates Repair Their Ships?
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 11 ก.ย. 2024
- Pirates have always been an entrepreneurial bunch, but have you ever wondered where they repaired their ships? It's not like most ports would take them in, after all. In this episode of SideQuest we'll learn all about pirate bases, especially in the Caribbean.
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There was this story in Norway a few years ago where a company wanted to offer people the opportunity to sail in authentic viking ships. The issue, however, was that Norway had a law stating that all ships taking passengers (or something along those lines) had to have a plan in case they were attacked by pirates.
And the company simply replied: "We are the pirates."
source?
"We have axes and normanic helmets."
does that imply that all of the norwegian ships have such a plan? Lol I need to read more
@@cc0767 a friends company got a job to build 2 turret mounts for a ship sailing between some port just below somalia and narvik
From what i understood, the turrets were basically "civilian" versions of military CIWS turrets
@@sakmadik69420 I made it up
To prevent seaweed and shipworms from slowing and damaging their ships, some ship owners would get copper sheathing on the hulls. When exposed to water, copper creates a copper oxychloride film which is toxic to most organisms and washes away so nothing can grow on it. This was very expensive, looked fly af (think gold plated ships), and was the best way to keep your ship fast, so it appealed to pirates/privateers.
That was some gangster pirate shit, all copper boat 😎
Now I can’t help but imagine a pirate dropped some copper in the ocean came back a week later and found nothing growing on it
Also a low cost way was to coat it with coal tar. Ships nowadays use copper based paints for anti fouling purposes. Copper is an excellent biocide and copper utensils were frequently used in olden times to store and drink water from.
I believe the red paint used on the hulls of modern ships is copper based for the same reason. Am I remembering that right?
HMS Eagle, (British ship from the American Revolutionary War) had a copper plated hull that prevented the worlds first combat submarine from sinking it, because the explosive device was not able to be drilled into the bottom of the ship.
there are still pirates, just swapped ships and flintlocks with fishing boats and AKs
Yea, except in 1600s pirates had the equivalent of artillery in their times.
Nowadays its different. Especially since the intetvention of NATO/china and their financing of local militias where pirates originated from (mostly somalia)
@@yummyyum4626 They did that back in the day too. But the technology situation back then made them much more difficult to find and combat.
Fun fact,back then you can invest in Somalia pirate. Help them buying equipment and get rewarded after successful raid.
@@johan.ohgren also, today modern navy ships can obliterate anything that's in their radius of operation. Hell, even land forces
can fight 'em, not to mention flying vehicles.
@@yummyyum4626 Both marines and infantry was used back in the 1700's, the difference with today is aircraft carriers, radars, satellites and intelligence services. Would much rather be a pirate with Blackbeard than any modern day crew.
Knowing more about the Caribbean pirates makes me appreciate Assassins creed Black Flag more, such well made game depicting the pirate life and the world at that time
Kinda want to play it again after I saw this video
The only ac worth playing imo
@@cudomoney, Ezio Auditore da Firenze smiles contemptuously at your words from the roof of Cattedrale di Santa Maria del Fiore
I just started black flag 3 days ago! It is magnificent. I love how the sailing, more specifically the naval combat functions. So smooth
ac 4 has a shitton of misinterpretations and misconceptions, still fun tho
There's a book called "Tommy the Cutlass" It's the memoirs of an actual pirate. The book said they'd go to uninhabited islands and repair the ship. They'd take whatever they found on other ships like paint, wood etc. and use them. They'd use tackle and rope to pull the ship on its side to scrape of barnacles.
I can't find it on goodreads. What is it called?
@@lara6893 I don't know about THAT book. But the book I read about these pirates, is "The Buccaneers of America".
The author actually sailed with some of those pirates.
the sinking of Port Royal was actually really horriffic. withing seconds or minutes the whole island became quicksand devouring everything and indeed everyone... The vibrations made the water be able to creep inbetween the sand grains and thus making it quicksand.
At first I tought you had 4 million subscribers instead of 4k. I was genuinely schocked when i found out otherwise. Please keep making these man. You’re awesome!
4/13/22 61.1k
@@WaynesStrangeBrain It’s gone up by 700 after an hour.
4/14/22 83k
@@jschroeman bro no way this guy went up to 88k in 7 hours
@@arcanum3882 95k - 15 April
3:26 “it’s a family show” *proceeds to unblur the image for a singular frame
If you go frame by frame you can see that they didn't unblur it, but rather the fade to white made the mosaic blur really ineffective.
@@Tinil0 not true, they unblurred it AS the fade began
@@aqasia5041 Go by it frame by frame. You can still see the blur, it just gets lost in the contrast.
The timing was too perfect, it was funny as hell lol
Gotta Fight Club everybody.
Watching a year old video about pirates and MOST of the stuff he tells us is things i personally havent heard before, love how it actually tried to give an idea of how pirates kinda fit into society when they were around instead of either glorify, or make it look horrible
Assassin creed 4 (one of the best entries in the franchise), as well as Black Sails (Prequel to Treasure Island mixed with retelling Nassau`s history) both detailed the fall of the Pirate Republic, and both portrayed the man responsible for the fall as a major Villain... A Privateer turned legendary Pirate Hunter, Governor Wooded Rogers.
They took them to Water7. I heard Galley-La has some of the best shipwrights on the Grand line.
Opened this video just to check if somebody commented about water 7
I was going to say that
I was literally gonna say this
@@pandadman same, good to see men of culture in the comment section
I have no idea what this means
I'm amazed at the low viewership. It's quality content, keep it up :)
Wait until he hits the magic 10k ........ of to the races 1mio in 3 years.
Quality contents equals low viewership the less quality content equals high viewership
I agree completely
Just started watching but I was already thinking the same thing he will blow up soon !
He’s now getting recommended to people like me and it’s at 40k :)
Also worth noting were the pirates of the Gulf of Mexico. As the Caribbean grew less fruitful, some pirates moved west into the largely unsettled and lawless American frontier, setting themselves up in ports such as New Orleans and Texas. From there, they could use smaller, faster, cheaper ships to raid merchants off the coast of Mexico and South America. And as the waves of Independence surged over the continent at the Turn of the 19th Century, many pirates found it advantageous to throw in their lot with the emerging new nations. The most famous was probably the French pirate Jean Lafitte, who offered the services of his crew and cannons to American general Andrew Jackson against the British at the Battle of New Orleans in 1815. Following the war, Lafitte would set up a colony on Galveston Island off the coast of Texas, which would grow to become the third largest port in the United States until the Great Hurricane of 1900.
This explains a lot about modern America
Wasnt Laffite who got a 500$ prize on his head and then put a 5000$ prize on the guy that made the first bounty?
Very glad this popped up in my recommended, just finished AC Black Flag again, really interesting to see how they tied the story of the game into real world history. Very informative and entertaining video with perfect pacing and a tight script, 10/10 content
Love the way these videos take a subject you'd never really thought about and explain it in a fun way.
The tv series Black Sails actually touches on this quite a bit. It’s amazing how accurate that show is in some places. Though it’s not all based on legitimate history, there are characters with names of actual pirates and it takes place in Nassau during the 1700’s. It also ties in nicely with Robert Louis Stevenson’s Treasure Island.
Yeah, except that gay pirate stuff. I mean, cheerio and all but that was absolutely irrelevant to anything else that happend. All in all 8/10 though
What? The gay pirate stuff is "historically the most accurate part"? lol
@@obiwanfisher537 look up the word “matelotage”
I will never forgive them for not ending with _Treasure Island._ It would have been the best version ever.
It was supposed to be a bit of a prequel to treasure island
I was thinking they'd go to Water 7 and ask Franky to repair their ships. Srsly tho, this channel is good af. Just became a fan.
1st thing in my mind too 🤣
The production quality vs viewership is unbelievable. Great educational videos that deserves more views! Glad i was able to find this channel!
Don't jinx it. With higher viewership videos become more awful.
@@xirogs just giving credit, when credit is due.
If you want a more complex more interesting Pirate Stories... Look towards the east.
South China Sea had a Pirate/Privateer port. Which was the Pre-colonial Philippines with the very trust worthy and fair locals who has great disdain with conflict and has a culture of "common good" which means ceasefire while in port least they suffer the wrath of the locals and have whole ports closed off from ALL ships.
So glad that this channel has blown up recently. Top tier videos with even higher tier voiceovers. Bravo!
3:20 theres a frame where you can see, everything..he drawn it and secretly shown us it
Ah, chips were invented by either the French or Belgians around 1775 or perhaps Spain (reference to "papas fritas" may be potato fried chips or just fried potatoes) in 1629. Whatever the case, they are definitely not British.
isn't this the most british thing ever though? To claim fame from something you were never really involved in.
“Ah the British! suppressing everything that is fun except the great British chip.” Totally unrelated and pointless, not true, and not even slightly funny. I’m baffled why that phrase was used. Why not stop at “Ah the British! Suppressing everything that is fun.”
Britain’s contribution to world cuisine could be fish and chips, but not chips by themselves.
@@mackan072 what do you mean by "you"? Am Irish, not British!
@@Gillemear I use you as in the more general sense. A better word would arguable have been 'one', but 'you' could still be used.
I hope this channel blows up soon
High quality stuff, subscribed!
I couldn't help but notice that your pixelation censorship faded out before the actual image faded out lol
had me dying lol i wondered if anyone else would comment on it lmao
Oh lord I thought I just imagined it
When was that bit lol
@@jackfrost5808 3:26 but you really have to play it really slow in order to catch it... like 0.25x speed.
Yeah I noticed that too. Thought I was the only one🤣🤣🤣 easy tiger it's a family show
02:07 This is the reason why many ships started having their outer hulls lined with copper.
*This is one gem of a newly-rising channel!*
Carry on! YARRRR!
Just found this yesterday and now I've gotten more interested in this kind of video, its really simple, informative, and fun to watch
Great video! One quick comment though about the nip slip at 3:26
In your video editing program, you need to combine the mosaic and base layers into a sub-composition before fading them in order for it to work properly. If you go frame by frame at that time code, you can see that fading each separately, unfortunately, did not work. Don't tell TH-cam though.
Actually I feel like he did that on purpose. Otherwise there would be no nd to even draw the nipples under the blur in the first place.
Snitches get STITCHS! Time to walk the plank.
Snitches get no bitches
Perhaps it was on purpose. The only harm that comes from showing female breast, animated or real, is that which comes from the government.
put it at 0.25 speed for better view of the nip slip
Some of this art is actually really well done. I've got to wonder who the artist/animatior is behind this channel.
me too?
@@oztv_antennas same
It's me
Great animation style and narration!
This channel will blow up eventually ✌️
Thank you for your hard work
“Some of them just loved the seven seas…”. No, it’s more like they had no other skills and the crown just left them hung out to dry. If you need to make a living, sailing is all you can do and the crown has no jobs for you, what else is there but piracy?
Discovered your page a few days ago. I'm now subscribed and giving likes to your videos. I think the algorithm will smile on you, it is doing so already, at least insofar that people like me, who regularly watch history content, have had you recommended to them.
Im pretty sure that the last time I checked, most pirates go to water 7 to get their ships repaired. I could be wrong tho
YESS
Just here for these comments abt water 7
YES
They repair their ships by nailing them back together with lots of metal sheets
This channel is golden, youu will make it big
this is AMAZING ! im in love, thank you for making my day !
I absolutely loved this video, great great content, thanks so much for your effort, I will happily give you the support your channel needs to grow
I still from time to time set sail in the dangerous waters of the pirate bay.
Good video btw.
Yar, I also endure the TORRENT of dangerous sailing at the pirate bay. In me later years, I've learned of more private and safer seas.
Or Corporate Sellouts like Crunchyroll Censoring Anime with their Karen & SJW Friendly Policy like they're the New 4Kids.
I just finished watching Black Sails. What an awesome pirate show!
It’s nice seeing your channel grow so much in the last week
This video was really helpfull. Just finished the series blacksails That take place on Nassau, so this gives a good background knowlege for the series🙂
Oh my, I've never encountered a TH-cam history channel with a humor style that fits my tastes THIS well.
That "arrr!" joke with the dog had me in stitches! XD
Hmm
One of those 'how have I never considered that' moments
Which now leads me to wonder how on Earth they even got their ships in the first place?!
Were they privately funded ships made for them?
Did they make them themselves?
Or did they commandeer increasingly larger ships?
It's a simple process, you storm and take over a fishing boat in dock, you use that boat to take over another slightly larger boat, you sell the earlier boat somewhere and use the money to buy crew or weaponry. Then you use that large fishing boat to take multiple other boats of the same size. You use those to take over a larger merchant ship, sell what's on it and maybe some of the fishing boats, buy more men & guns, take over more merchant ships, etc etc
@@three-bark1928 Pirate ships were often significantly smaller than the lightly armed ships they harassed. Pirates did not benefit from larger ships the way an organized navy would. More crew required, more ship to maintain, often times slower and couldn't travel the shallow waters of places like the Bahamas.
@@NoQuestions4sked yes that's... what I said.
@@three-bark1928 You suggested they would utilize larger and larger boats that they captured, which is mostly incorrect.
Mutiny is one way, as sailors weren't always (major understatement) treated very well.
I’m so glad the algorithm’s waves have brought me to the shores of your channel. Great stuff! Can’t wait for what else you come up with.
I was just watching through autoplay and was thoroughly enjoying your content. Since it's autoplay, I didn't see the view count and expected 2+ millions. This channel is criminally underrated.
Ps. You gained a new sub
I'm saving this one for International Talk like a Pirate day! September 19! Aarrrr matey! Shiver me timbers!
My great grandfather was a pirate. He had a place down in the Bahamas and we used to visit him. Eventually they got him and killed him, but my grandfather being a pirate thing was always a 'thing' in school where I wasn't supposed to brag about because it wasn't true or something, but no one knew any different.
This was an amazing watch, I learned a lot from this!
That short film was excellent! Educational, great artwork, enjoyable animation and a bit of humor that makes for some additional entertainment. Great Work
How does this man not have 2 million subs. Quality is amazing and the story telling was incredible. Had to subscribe keep it up mate!
REALLY glad i discovered this channel, I bet you'll gain the recognition you deserve very very soon, keep it up:)
Always like hearing about pirates get to hear about Nassau Bahamas. So proud 🥲😂
How this channel doesn't have millions of views? Quality content and top tier humor
Governor: "The Crime is obvious. This man is guilty of committing Piracy and plundering for his own gain on 20 occasions, without a letter of marque! Do you plead guilty Pirate?"
Pirate: "No your honor, I see myself more as a 'sailing entrepreneur' therefore, it's not illegal. I'd really like to get my ship back now, it's a kickstarter and I got quotas to meet"
Argggg! Great video! Tons of great information, loved the narration and graphics, can't believe that this channel isn't huge. This is a topic that I have wondered about before, but hadn't figured out the answer for. Very, very well done! I'm definitely passing this video on to my friends. Please keep the outstanding videos coming and God bless you, my friend, from all the way over here in the great Lone Star State of Texas!
Its arrrr not arrrg.
I always eat while watching your videos. Its like positive enhanced learning^^
If you ever get the chance please visit Port Royal. The fish and bammy is amazing and the ruins of the fortress are fun for photos.
This channel is a gem! You’ve easily earned my LCS ✌🏼
YOU ACKNOWLEDGED THE DUTCH!!! Woooohooooo als een Nederlander ben ik zo blij met u! Finally some representation in a history video about sea powers!!
Insta sub! This channel is going to be a smash hit
Same I watched the Christian Black Market video and instantly subbed.
My great x7 grandfather was a master shipbuilder in Newfoundland in the 1700s and he built a few privateering ships much like the one described in the famous song by stan rogers. Newfoundland was home to a few big names in pirates like Peter Easton.
You mean the Mary Ellen Carter?
@@seekerofalice9787 Nope, I was referring to the Antalope, in the song "barrett's privateers"
Genius script writing, visuals and voice talent :)
So they didn't have cyborg Shipwrights, who could repair the ship wherever they wanted?
My dissapointment is immeasurable and my day is ruined
Soda hadn't been invented yet, so fuel was also an issue...
Cringe
YOW!
I was waiting for this comment 💀
*Fun Fact:* reindeer make for terrible doctors, as most reindeer never finish their post doctorate programs
Such a deserved subscription. You are extremely entertaining
Insanely good content! Im watching your old videos non-stop now :D
First video I've seen from this channel and I got to say really great
Your channel deserves like 1.4 million subs, not 400k subs. So unique and cool!
How in the hell is this the first time I've found this channel?
Sam O Nella
Oversimplified
Extra History
Not once have I ran into this channel.
Algorithm, do your thing!
If you like Sam O Nella, check out Blue Jay. Similar humor & content.
@@rv6319 Thank you, I love Blue Jays channel.
Holy heck he's still making high quality content, keep it up man!
with this kind of quality video, you should have your 1 million subs in no time. keep it up!!
4:53 The cemetery also fell into the ocean. The corpse of the privateer and former lieutenant governor Captain Morgan (Yes, the rum guy) was interred in the Port Royal cemetery. After quake his corpse was never located.
I love how you make videos that simplify hard content. greetings from Malaysia
3:26 eeeeh...
Shh
lmao
shh
It was so random burst out laughing!!
best part
I'm watching TV show about pirates currently called Black Sails. Got on TH-cam right after finishing an episode and got recommended this video. So it's true our phones spy on us 😂. I'm thankful tho , cos I love such content. Keep making these videos.
Damn ... How is this channel not viral .... Great video!
2:16 thought my microwave was going off.
This channel is great quality love the voice
Love your channel. Great production, informative, and entertaining as always
Amazing relics on the sea-bed off Port Royal still to be found.
My man, you did a FANTASTIC JOB of this! I really DO appreciate what you've done on the subject of maritime piracy, one of my favorite historical studies! I was wondering, & only if you're up to it, if you would do a full series of episodes on maritime piracy, from the ancient pirates in the times of Ancient Greece & Rome, to the Vikings & the later Arabic & Barbary pirates & all the way up to modern day maritime piracy in South & Southeast Asia as well as in Africa! But that is only IF you are willing & intrigued by the whole topic of maritime piracy, that is! What say you?
Yeah Rob, I'm enjoying your coaching.
They repair them in the shipyaaaarrrrrd!
Knew there was a pirate joke in there somewhere… 🏴☠️
3:44 well today I learned that there's an actual island called Tortuga in the Hispaniola archipelago...
However! That map shown is from the less known Isla La Tortuga in Venezuela, which was most likely not a pirate port
I always have known that Isla tortuga ( the one that is north of Haiti ) was the actual Tortuga island of the Pirates...and yes there's another island in Venezuela whit the same name...but is not the real pirate island...there were a few islands that were pirate heaven in the Caribbean..one that in my opinion was a real pirate island is Mona island between Santo Domingo and Puerto Rico...is the perfect island for a pirate ( this island was use by pirates during the 1600 and 1700 do to is location on the route of the all the gold from south America via panama and the Caribbean to Spain ( Mona has many caves and only 2 places to land...is has 200' cliffs all around it a perfect place to hide and defend )...the island is considered the Caribbean Galapagos no one lives in it only some scientist and a small group of Puerto Rico Park Rengers...(.if you want to visit it you need a permit from DRN of Puerto Rico best time is may to Sept )
@@yankee7664 you a real island boy
This was a nicely informative video. Nice job.
3:26 when it fades into the next scene the censor blur goes away for a brief second.
Got me harder then obsidian
yall down so bad its ridiculous
Down horrendous 🤨📸💥
Hell yeah it does
0:27 - 0:53 Having watched One Piece, I can’t help but wonder if those Letters of Marque & the Privateers were the inspiration for the Seven Warlords of the Sea
Finally my question has been answered, ive been wondering about this because theres no home depot back in the day
love the animations, I’d watch a show using them
4:40 - That's exactly how everyone believes pirates talk.
On a side note, damn I just found out this channel and I love it! History with cool animations will always be a win for me.
even cartoon Johnny Depp gets disrespected 0:19
Video sponsored by Amber Heard.
Love this channel. Thanks so much for the breath of fresh air!😁
I’m amazed by the quality of this video and that it has less than a million views, great content keep it up
This guy is underrated
Spain was also a great naval power in the Caribbean at the time. It shocks me that you didn't mention it.
Spain was in the eve of their power at the time while france and britain was still solidly in their navies golden age
Cos no one cares
Portugal aswell although they were in the southern parts,
@@gamescentrel2951 The Dutch rather than the Portuguese. The Portuguese didn't play a major role in the Caribbean and were a second rate power at the time
Because this channel was made to please English speaking viewers and we all know how good are Americans and British at hiding whatever historic event that has do to with Spain.
Most important thing for them is to educate their people to believe that anything great that happened in their territory was made by them. Probably they think that Florida, California, Texas or New Mexico was first conquered by British. That Spanish were never there. At least that's what you see in their books...
I’ve been thinking about this while watching curse of oak island.
Oak island swamp would be a great place to repair a ship. This makes me think I was right. The swamp is Natural and man made ship lock.
first time i subscribe so fast really like the style, will watch the rest!
EXCELLENT. Didnt even think of it till I read it.
they repaired it in Water 7 duh
They had extended warranty and could exchange them.
Yea. There's the Dutch. Beyond privatising piracy. Pretty much the entire navy was privatised from the start. Owned by massive companies.
‘Plunderen de wereld noemen het de gouden eeuw’
2:30 believe it or not ive actually done this to repair a ship when i was in the whitsundays we tied the ship up to some trees and leaned it on one side then repaired and cleaned it at low tide
This video was surprisingly intresting