pirates' wet dream was a frigate, which was a full rigged threemaster, and these were the fastest ships around, faster on the long run than schooners, but they sat deeper in the water and needed a much larger crew, min. 200
@Bodhy frigates could reach the same speed as sloops. In sailing it‘s not that important how small your ship is. But yes, you‘re somewhat right since sloops were good for sailing against the wind while square rigged frigates were fast only in front of the wind or to the side. I am sorry for the missing naval terms but I only know them in German.
A sloop also has a shallower draft...thus it can sail in shallower waters. In sid Myers "pirates" you could get the larger ship to chase you across a reef, damaging their hull. In rl many of them would have become stuck.
@@furiousfelicia5751 Although HMS Endymion could do 14.5 knots and she was a heavy frigate too. To my knowledge the fastest British frigate. French ships where generally faster on average.
Definitely a frigate over any of the other choices. It may have fewer guns, but the trade-off speed is unacceptable. Especially when you could potentially have a Man-Of-War hunting you. While the gallie. May have been faster. I highly doubt it was fast enough to lose that ship. While a frigate could lose it. Monarchs regularly sent extremely powerful warships to hunt pirates. So it isn't out of the realm of possibility if you hurt a monarchs purse enough or a lord of some standing it was a very real possibility you could find one of those monsters on hunting you. For perspective, the gallie had a total of 70 guns and two gun decks while a Man Of War had 3 gun decks sometimes north of a 100 guns. With artillery depending on the year.
A pirate walks into a bar with a steering wheel sticking out of his zipper. The bartender asks: "What's with the steering wheel?" And the pirate says: "AAAARRRRRRGH, It's driving me Nuts."
Pirate is interviewed by a reporter. Asked about his right arm hook, he says, "Lost it in a sword fight with a Spanish captain." Asked about his peg leg, he says, " Lost it in a gun battle with the English." Asked about his eye patch, he says "Saw a gull up in the rigging and it pooped right in my eye.......the day after I got my hook."
One of the things about the larger ships as well, especially Naval ships of the line, was that they often had trouble shooting at the lower and faster ships with all of the guns available to them, especially once those ships got closer. Once you get into the naval rated ships, the upper gun decks would have been able to shoot at rigging and only the main hull on occasion if the roll was sufficient to drop the guns in line, at which point the lower gun decks were basically pointed into the ocean. This really evened things up because a 60 gun ship is only as good as a 20 gun ship if that's all it can bring to bear. Meanwhile, a 20 gun sloop has a large enough target to shoot at that a clean hit is easier to manage, or running with relative lack of fear of getting shot is plausible.
That's why I always liked the briginetens kinda best of both world short hulls mean more concentrated fire power but they are still fast if I were a pirate I'd want a brig for sure
Well some truth in but for sure ships of the line where not a main target by far in most cases. Imagine that even if only half of the guns on a let's say a 60-120 gun ship can be used 'in the roll of tides', 1 broadside hit and your sloop, schooner, fluyt or whatever was destroyed or badly damaged to continue an attack. Besides that, a small army of marines and seamen and other personel on those bigger ships where armed with muskets. Being shot by a vast number of enemies from the fighting tops, well not a good idea at all in closer range. Let alone that pirates enter and took over such vessels, in the movies yes but in reality a few. As a pirate crew even did made a succesfull entering, a new battle awaits against at least some hundreds of men and officers. Most people forget that many pirates did fought against......other pirates/privateers/bucaneers/small local targets. Not so much against navy ships or wel armed trading vessels. Forgive me my English, not my native language as a crazy Dutchman. But it is truth that a 20 gun sloop can badly damage larger vessels and win battles against stronger opponents but a pirate captain will think twice before doing so. Pirates where much often alone, one maybe two or three ships....military vessel mostly sailed in squadrons or fleets, not such a good idea to attack them :)
Of course that 20 gun sloop might not have big enough guns to get through the reinforced hull of a ship of the line, and one broadside from that ship of the line would blow a sloop to pieces, if it could get enough of its guns to bear.
I think the only (few) examples of a sloop beating a ship of the line though was when under a naval flag - and that's if you are counting some of Cochran's Spanish prizes due to their cannon count, not mission set. But for some of early large scale privateer squadron during the early 1600s (which were in effect also naval forces in all but name), pirates almost always got butchered if they got corner by trained naval forces and would run like hell they could
"Brigantine, commonly known as Brig" - Thats wrong! They are completely different ship types! The Brig has got a square rigged aft mast, while the Brigantine hasnt!
Only twp of the ships shown at 5:23 and 5:54, during the brigantine segment were brigantines. 5:11 was a brig. I don't know what the one at 5:36 was, but with three masts, the after two lateen rigged, it was not a brigantine, nor was it from the golden age of piracy. 5:47 and 6:21 are what would later be called barques except for being lateen rigged. The one at 6:08 is a barque. If Edward Teach's ship had three masts, it wasn't a brig or brigantine. The rig at 6:53 is also a barque, not a ship.
@@jakeeschen7868 5:36 might've been a Caravel of some sort. Edit: Caravela redondas had a round sail followed by 2 lateen sails. Not golden age, but could've been used by privateers in the 1500s.
Well, you gave it a good shot and it was enjoyable to watch. Others have made points about your centuries being wrong, and your notations of certain ships being the wrong kind. I'd like to point out a couple of things that might otherwise not be noticed: (1) By far the most common entry into piracy was actually via letters of marque, by which ship captains, both civilian and military, were given permission to prey on the shipping of countries at war with their own. Once they were out to sea, though, captains and crews got a lot less picky about their targets, especially in cases where they knew they wouldn't be caught. (2) Many of the bigger ships you listed here, and things like the fluyt, were pirate ships only in the sense that they were captured by them - and called "prizes". That's one of the reasons why pirate ships carried so many men - they intended to replace the crews of captured ships, because it was a far quicker and easier task than transferring cargo on the open sea. Once the prize had been sailed to a friendly port and the cargo sold or divided up, they were usually abandoned (or, in some cases, refitted to serve again as trade ships for new owners). (3) The largest galleons, despite being slower, weren't often targeted by pirates for capture, and only a handful actually were (and many of these were while the ships were in port). A few reasons for this were clear: First, despite being slower, they WERE far larger, and their crews were both massive and often well trained or supported by marines, rather than the frightened skeleton crews of civilian merchants. Second, they seldom sailed alone, and in the later part of the Golden Age of Piracy, they sailed as seldom as once a year. They did this as much to protect against pirates as to prevent mutiny, and to ensure that the wreck of a ship in the fleet could be witnessed and recorded, to better enable others to recover whatever cargo and survivors there might have been.
The Queen Anne's was actually a french trade frigate la concorde that was stolen by another pirate and then given to Edward teach AKA Blackbeard and was not a galleon, and brigs and brigantine are different ships with the rigging the brig is primarily square rigged and the brigantine has no square sails on the mizen mas
A "brig" is a two masted ship with square sails. A "brigantine" is a two masted ship rigged with square sails on the foremast, and triangular sails on the aft mast. A two masted ship with both masts rigged with fore-to-aft (triangular) sails is a "schooner". And a two masted schooner with one square sail above the main triangular sail on the foremast, but with both aft mast sails being fore-to-aft, is a "topsail schooner".
The Queen Anne was actually a slave ship, not a trade ship. And while it was French when Blackbeard took it, one pirate in his crew describes it as having a Dutch look, but nobody really knows where it was actually built
Brigantines do not have mizzen masts they have fore and main masts with the main mast being fore-and-aft rigged though the mainmast was commonly fitted with a square rigged topsail and those with out this square rigged topsail were typically called hermaphrodite brigs or brig-schooners, but of course they were still brigantines
bruh the fact that you said that the queen annes revenge was a galleon shows that you didn't do any research the queen annes revenge was a guineaman, at best you could say it is a small frigate
Meh, there are contemporary drawings that portray her as a galleon, although subsequent detailed models to have her in a Guineaman pattern. Regardless it remains unclear if she was laid down as a slaver or not and does not have the full wide profile you'd expect with purpose-built Guineaman from later in the 1700s and probably underwent considerable hull modifications by the French when they took her into military service as a frigate which may have cut down her deck houses for stability.
Depends on the rating system you go by, the 1700 went on the speed and displacement, which here you would be correct. But if you use the table lade out by the british admiralty at the end of the 1700s and start of the napoleonic times it would have listed as 6th rate or 5th as they went by cannon count, not by speed. The queen Anne's revenge had 40 allegedly which would place her in the 5th rate, 30 would place her in the 6th rate or frigates. Either way she was the largest of the pirate vessels. I stopped watching the second the information was wrong about the QAR
@@Robert53area As she was never built as a warship she had no warship clasification. She was neither a Galleon (god no!) Or a frigate. She was a retourship. A trader, modified to fit the needs of Teatch
1st pictures were cutters, not sloops. Sloop has a for and aft main sail and one jib. Brig and Brigantine are different sail plans. Brig has a square main sail and spanker, while Brigantine is rigged with for and aft main sale (usualy gaff or lateen). Ppl tend to enchange theese two because they both have two masts and look very similar, but sail handeling is different. Square rigged ships were all planed with square sails. The word you were probably looking for was ,,Full rigged ship" and Barq in this case of the ship in the picture. Sometimes pictures mixed with a different ship types and sail plans generaly. Dutch Flyut (Flauta) was mirror backed and pear hulled. Described very well but pictures from wikipedia are wrong. Galleon and Bilander mixed in the compilation. Flying Dutchman in the legend was Flyut, "they say". But in the Pirates of Caribbean we can see Galleon. Queen´s Anne Revenge wasnt a Galleon. Originaly it was slave traders Frigate La Concorde and Blackbeard converted the build by adding castle and an other deck to improve gun placement areas. It was more of a hybrid and from latest views they would call it Frigate-built. Frigates were 5th rate ships made for speed and maneuverability and specific tasks. Also able to effectively stand in the line formation. Only one gun deck and flush deck. More gun decks or gunned on main deck were so called ,,Frigade-built ships of the line". 4th and 3rd rated. Not a huge difference, but still.. More than one gun decks wasnt a Frigate. Frigate can be sometimes exchanged for French Corvette. Similar pourposes, similar build and sail plan... However, this was one of the best videos i have ever seen on this topic. With a large reach of informations. Beutyful work. Good job. And good luck with your future endeavours. :) ;)
so you are saying that the most famous frigate of all time, one heavily featured in the video and stated in official documents from its 1797 building are WRONG? someone tell the US Navy that the USS Constitution isn’t a frigate because some guy on the internet said so!
Xebecs and corvettes are the hidden gem types of pirate ships. They have good speed even against the wind (similar to sloops) and they have decent payloads for crews and cannons. Man of war is actually the worst choice for piracy and if pirates are lucky to hijack one.
I remember playing Sid Meirs Pirates, step one at the start of every game? Hang out around a large English or French port and snag a frigate. Made the game a lot easier in the long run.
I think if I were a pirate I would try my hand at sailing a Brig of War or a former Slave Ship. I think those would be ideal for pirating around. Great video.
Difference is rig (sails) at main mast: Brig = Square rigged (square sails) at main mast Brigantine = gaff rigged (gaff sials) at main mast (+ maybe a square top sail)
As I recall from Sid Meier's Pirates! Gold, the ultimate pirate ship was the barque; two masted with triangular sails, it was sturdier and pack more guns and men than a sloop, but was maneuverable, so you could pound away at the heavier warships while always staying out of their canon range because you could sail so much closer into the wind than they could do they could never get you broadside.
Actually... "Brigantines" and "Barquentines" were ONLY Two Masted! Once you went into "Three Masted" then you get into Frigates and Merchantman ships like the French Merchantman that became Edward Teach/Blackbeard's Great Flag Ship "Queen Anne's Revenge"! Also "GALLEONS" were Spanish and English and later French and Portages... But were "Out of Date" for Pyrates by the early/mid-18th. Century as they were too slow and heavy and were ditched in favor of Frigates and Merchantman Ships which were more Modern and MUCH Faster but could ALSO be VERY Well/Heavily Armed! And "QUEEN ANNE'S REVENGE" was NOT A "GALLEON"! It was a FRENCH MERCHANTMAN SLAVER SHIP that was HEAVILY ARMED but LOW in DRAFT and Quite Fast! But it was NOT A "GALLEON"! As I said "GALLEONS" were Out Dated for Most Pyrates by the 18th. Century/1700's!
Eh, your correct. But in all fairness it is an easy mistake to make. The QAR does have a passing resemblance to one. This was probably done by design. The Spanish and Italians also continued to refer to the large cargo and treasure ships as Galleons well into the 18th century. These ships do have similar profiles to the old galleons. I think one could easily get these confused.
Barquentines were 3 masted. What a Barquentine specifically refers to is a ship with three masts with only the fore-mast square rigged. There's also Brigs (2 masts, all square-rigged), Barques (3+ masts, all but the rear are square-rigged) and Jackass Barques (3-mast, foremast square rigged, mainmast hybrid, mizen fore-and-aft OR 4-mast, foremast and forward mainmast square rigged, rear mainmast and mizen fore-and-aft). Frigates and Merchantmen were full-rigged ships (3-mast, all square rigged OR 3+1-mast, all three primaries square rigged with a fore-and-aft Jiggermast).
You missed some: 2:16 Besides sloops you also had gunboats (really small), cutters (the sloop you describe), 2:44 Dutch Yachts (a sloop with a cabbin) and a Yaw (A Yacht with guns even inside the cabbin) 3:08 This is a brigataine 3:55 Those are both two masted ships so they can't be sloops 4:15 You forget to talk about the Ketch (lower aftmast) 5:10 This is a brig. The differende being "fully" square rigged (or a snow) 5:46 This really isn't a brigantine or a brig. More a galleon because of the high aft and third mast 5:58 I've got no idea what you would call this. Or if something like this even ever existed 6:08 A small fregatte or corvette 6:21 Galleons again 7:06 "not designed as fighting vessels" *shows a lineship/man-o-war 8:15 The "fluit/fluyt" meaning flute were meant for all the nordic seas where there weren't many pirates so they didn't have much guns. 9:13 They were flat-bottomed so they can sail in shalow water like rivers. This made them not really suited for open-ocean. This has nothing to do with taxes. Also those taxes were about the with of the main deck, not the area. 9:45 This can't be true because Flutes were slow AF 10:25 The Galleon is a Dutch type. Spanish and Swedish (like the Wasa) just made them bigger. A large Galleon is called a man-o-war and were indeed used as priceships. 12:21 The biggest difference between a galleon and a man-o-war is the third gundeck like with this one. They could also be used as lineships by the navy 13:13 You forget to say they were as low as possible to increase the change of cannonballs flying right over. This is a long list but it's still a good video. Tnx for making it
5:58 is from a game, there are no leesails (I think that's what they're called) or gaff sails because you need good visibility and would have to spend ages lowering and raising sails, and its a fast paced game at times so that wouldn't work.
I'm quite certain Sloops more often than not had two masts for British classification. Now for the American colonies it's a one mast classification for what makes a sloop.
@@kevinvelado9907 in the royal navy system (from 1775 onwards) every navy vessel was a sloop(-of-war) unless it was a rated full rigged ship (the smallest rate beeing a sixth rate: a frigate with 20 or more guns). In those times there were no official british corvettes, french corvettes would most often beeing called "sloop" by the royal navy.
A fun topic, you need to do a little research on ship types, but it was entertaining. There are many different books that could help you. Read up and enjoy! Thank you for taking an interest in nautical history. I love it too!
did he just say “15th century man o war” and claim that a brig had 3 masts and show a picture of a ship of the line when he said “square rigged ships were not designed for war” or something
Most of the pictures shown during the "brigantine" segment are galleons, not brigantines. And most of the things said here about square rigged ships is just wrong. They weren't all slow cargo haulers. Frigates, Ships of the Line, Corvettes and Sloops-of-war were all square rigged ships and built for combat. Frigates and smaller square rigged ships were quite maneuverable. The info about the Fluyt missed the point. They were designed to minimize the Danish sound toll, but that's NOT why they had a shallow draft. Fluyts had a shallow draft because a deep draft vessel couldn't enter Dutch ports. The design feature that made them tax-evaders was a pronounced tumblehome that gave them a tiny deck compared to the broad hold. (i.e., they were "pear-shaped" when viewed from the stern).
The part about the only measuring the tiny upperdeck to evade Danish sound toll is a myth formed from a mistake. With one exception for the timber-ship that sailed to Norway, built from 1647 in the so-called new form, with a broader fore and aft than amidships. Fluyts designed for timber transport were built with a wasp waist and an extended hull fore and aft to avoid payments. Despite being common knowledge, Norwegian toll-officers were unable to do anything, as the skippers played by the rules of the 1647 treaty. This stated that the measurement of the width should be taken amidships. The Fluyt was designed to be a proper cargo vessel, it was build for maximum of space and crew efficiency. It was cheap to build, hold more cargo than other ships (great for bulk buying) and could sail with a smaller crew and therefore also cheaper overall to operate, with a shallow draft because of the shallow waters in the Netherlands. If you want to read about it, there is a PDF on it, but with youtube being youtube, links probably don't work so you have to search for it yourself: The_Flute_and_the_Sound_toll (most likely the first link and the pdf is in English)
„Not designed as fighting vessels“ they said. Showing the „Santisima Trinidad“ in the background. The largest warship of the age of sail, sunk at Trafalgar 1805. With a crew of over a thousand men and up to (I think) 120 guns.
@@ethanjustice8890 no, they wanted to tow her back to port, but she sank in a storm a day after the battle due to the damages she recieved during the battle. I didn't bother to type out that small difference for reasons of simplicity.
The ship at 5:13 is a Brig! The narrator mixes a Brig and a Brigantine several times. A Brig has square sails on two masts, a Brigantine has square sails on the fore mast and fore and aft sails on the rear mast. Both of which have only two masts,
Speed and fire power. Co incidentally, what you need in a fighter aircraft. ships don't really care much about altitude as long as it's above sea level
Some of the earlier pirates that often get over shadowed by the Caribbean counter parts are the barbary pirates. Wish you would've included something about them too
The Barbary pirates were different, for most of their existence they were the commerce raiding portion of the Ottoman navy, and most of their captains had the "Reis" title indicating their service in the Ottoman Empire (Reis was the rank title for a navy captain in the Ottoman empire). The tradition was started by Oruc Reis in the early 16th century
@@mrvwbug4423 earlier on sure, but later around the 17th century, algeirs became especially more autonomous and the Barbary pirates like jack ward and Jan janzsoon did not swear allegiance to the ottomans
So basically you just gave us a list of practically every major class of ship available in the Caribbean and said "pirates stole these and used them". However, your breakdown of the advantages and disadvantages of each was pretty good. But you missed two major advantages of slops and schooners - their sail arrangement allowed them to sail closer into the wind than square rigged ships could and their large sail area to hull size ratio made them faster in lighter breezes, allowing them to catch slower merchant ships and out sail pursuing naval vessels.
I get your point, but I think it is more apt to refer to sea pirates as opportunists rather than criminals, considering that their strategies were and still are on par with today’s modern political systems…!
Um, the photo of the 20th century frigate was actually of either HMS Tiger or HMS Blake, the two Tiger class CRUISERS converted to carry helicopters. They were part of the Tiger class of three vessels built as light cruisers in the early 1950s. Frigates of that time, and into the late 1960s, we’re usually about half the size of these cruisers.
I'm surprised you didn't mention the the Clipper. Originally made by the dutch, 4 mast, Long, narrow body, light on the water, yet fast. With only 2 desks it forgo crew space for cargo. With 18 guns and sailing 16.5 kn it was faster then the ships on this list. The Maryland Clipper made by the colonies were even faster at 18.5 kn with 20 guns. The Maryland clipper mast Sweep back while the Dutch Clipper mast Lean Forward. Maryland Clipper are still in use today just nolonger for cargo.
Bastian. No, a brig had two masts, and a Brigantine had two masts with a fore-and-aft rigged sail in the mizzen mast. He does confuse Brigs and Brigantines, however. And broadly lumps various ships as square rigged.
Russel Cole: Brigs and brigantines don’t have a mizzen mast! Two masts; main and fore. Brigantine main mast is fore and aft rigged. Brig main mast is square rigged. The after mast is called the main mast because it’s taller than the fore mast. Two- masted vessel with the after mast being shorter (mizzen mast) is called a ketch.
What a terrific topic! Thank you. TH-cam does a poor job recommending your channel. I watch a boatload (pun intended) of history videos and only recently got a recommendation.
Funfact: one of the most important reasons for the Dutch to dominate in trade was the invention of the windmill saw, this way we could saw timber automatically instead of by hand. 30 times faster in fact. We could build ships faster than anyone else on the planet and for only half the cost.
Enjoyed your pirate ship description list , but it left out Chinese Junks vessels. I read once that they were popular as pirate ships for their close hauled sailing abilities.
what if a vessel like the legendary Tea-Clipper Cutty Sark with a full crew compliment was to be, by some unexplainable phenomenon, displaced in time and location subsequently captured and transformed into a proper privateers vessel?
Slavetraders were sought after since they were built for speed (the quicker you make the journey the more "cargo" survives), had lots of hold space and were designed to work with minimal crews. Also, taking a full one meant either/or lots of volunteers to hire/"cargo" to sell off.
@@BullGator-kd6ge actually not really. There were a lot of pirates who had no problems with slavery (Bart Roberts and Barbary-Pirates would be examples) but there were just as many who heavily opposed it. Most of the anti-slavery pirates often dealt with the Spanish and probably knew what "slavery" meant because for the Spanish slavery wasn't purely based on racism alone. Instead of executing pirates (wich also actually happened kinda rarely) the spaniards loved to sentence pirates (and suspected pirates, AKA non-Spanish sailors) to a lifetime of slavery, no matter their skin-colour. Famous examples of this are Francois L'Olonnais or Roc Basiliano, who were both sold/sentenced into spanish slavery but(probably) escaped.
most priates began as freebooter. Meaning a lot of pirates started as someone that worked for a nations navy fleet and had the mission to plunder specific nations ships. But certain captains wanted more and so started in pirating.
Very useful video, played right into my laziness by saving me a bunch of researching and Wikipedia reading lol Hope you're having a good day, dear reader :)
I like how they use a picture of the hms sovereign as a picture under galleons even though it was classified as a massive 1st rate ship of the line that I believe had had the capability of holding 192 guns and was equally a massive financial nightmare
As much as I would’ve loved having a huge Galleon I honestly prefer smaller ships like Schooners or sloops. I know without a doubt I would’ve favored a sloop over most if not all. True it’s hold was small and it’s crew number would’ve been very low. But it’s strategic use is far too great to overlook. It could sail good even against the wind when most other ships would lose almost all maneuverability trying to sail against the wind. A sloop not so much. I’d fit as many heavy guns as my sloop could carry and deck out my small crew with the best weaponry to make them even more effective killers when boarding. Run rings around helpless and slower ships as I rip open their hulls and then fill their crew with grape shot. Once the enemy crew has been demoralized and butchered by the hail of grape shot then I’d give the order to board. Using all manner of hand grenades and using the smoke from all the cannon fire to shock and attack the enemy with lightening speed and ferocity. Try and kill the captain quickly or take them hostage forcing the crew to surrender themselves and their ship to me.
I would so much like to like this video, but there is just so much wrong information about pirates, so i just cant. Thats too bad, as it seems like the quality of the video is good.
pirates' wet dream was a frigate, which was a full rigged threemaster, and these were the fastest ships around, faster on the long run than schooners, but they sat deeper in the water and needed a much larger crew, min. 200
@Bodhy frigates could reach the same speed as sloops. In sailing it‘s not that important how small your ship is. But yes, you‘re somewhat right since sloops were good for sailing against the wind while square rigged frigates were fast only in front of the wind or to the side. I am sorry for the missing naval terms but I only know them in German.
A sloop also has a shallower draft...thus it can sail in shallower waters.
In sid Myers "pirates" you could get the larger ship to chase you across a reef, damaging their hull. In rl many of them would have become stuck.
When I learned that these tall ships could reach speeds up to 15 kn, I was amazed. That's pretty fast..
@@furiousfelicia5751 15 knots is pretty rare. A ship of the line could do 8-11 knots, a frigate 11-13 knots.
@@furiousfelicia5751 Although HMS Endymion could do 14.5 knots and she was a heavy frigate too. To my knowledge the fastest British frigate. French ships where generally faster on average.
I love that the thumbnail is literally Sea of Thieves art lol
yes
Yep
Well, pirates ain’t it
Sea of thieves is amazing, and its great that he used it, however, he did not credit Rare and that, i cannot respect.
@@ZombishTurkey agree
"Galleons. The one you've been waiting for"
No, I was waiting for Frigates.
true but i was slightly waiting for the gals
me the sloops lol
Yeah if i were a pirate i would definitely choose a frigate or even a basic a$$ ship's captain...
Definitely a frigate over any of the other choices. It may have fewer guns, but the trade-off speed is unacceptable. Especially when you could potentially have a Man-Of-War hunting you. While the gallie. May have been faster. I highly doubt it was fast enough to lose that ship. While a frigate could lose it. Monarchs regularly sent extremely powerful warships to hunt pirates. So it isn't out of the realm of possibility if you hurt a monarchs purse enough or a lord of some standing it was a very real possibility you could find one of those monsters on hunting you. For perspective, the gallie had a total of 70 guns and two gun decks while a Man Of War had 3 gun decks sometimes north of a 100 guns. With artillery depending on the year.
Technically galeons are frigates, just from a previous century. Same as ship of lines, basically huge frigates.
"stolen to be made a pirate ship" Commandeered. Commandeered to be made a pirate ship. Nautical term.
Ah. Thank you Jack.
“Commandeered. Commandeered you be made a pirate ship. Nautical term”🤓🤓
Hear hear
"Borrowed. Borrowed, without permission"
“Yoinked, yoinked for a devious lick..”
A pirate walks into a bar with a steering wheel sticking out of his zipper.
The bartender asks: "What's with the steering wheel?"
And the pirate says: "AAAARRRRRRGH, It's driving me Nuts."
Pirate is interviewed by a reporter. Asked about his right arm hook, he says, "Lost it in a sword fight with a Spanish captain." Asked about his peg leg, he says, " Lost it in a gun battle with the English." Asked about his eye patch, he says "Saw a gull up in the rigging and it pooped right in my eye.......the day after I got my hook."
Well done
@@spikespa5208 I dont get the gull bit but good effort
GOOD JOKE!
3/10
One of the things about the larger ships as well, especially Naval ships of the line, was that they often had trouble shooting at the lower and faster ships with all of the guns available to them, especially once those ships got closer. Once you get into the naval rated ships, the upper gun decks would have been able to shoot at rigging and only the main hull on occasion if the roll was sufficient to drop the guns in line, at which point the lower gun decks were basically pointed into the ocean. This really evened things up because a 60 gun ship is only as good as a 20 gun ship if that's all it can bring to bear. Meanwhile, a 20 gun sloop has a large enough target to shoot at that a clean hit is easier to manage, or running with relative lack of fear of getting shot is plausible.
That's why I always liked the briginetens kinda best of both world short hulls mean more concentrated fire power but they are still fast if I were a pirate I'd want a brig for sure
Well some truth in but for sure ships of the line where not a main target by far in most cases. Imagine that even if only half of the guns on a let's say a 60-120 gun ship can be used 'in the roll of tides', 1 broadside hit and your sloop, schooner, fluyt or whatever was destroyed or badly damaged to continue an attack. Besides that, a small army of marines and seamen and other personel on those bigger ships where armed with muskets. Being shot by a vast number of enemies from the fighting tops, well not a good idea at all in closer range. Let alone that pirates enter and took over such vessels, in the movies yes but in reality a few. As a pirate crew even did made a succesfull entering, a new battle awaits against at least some hundreds of men and officers. Most people forget that many pirates did fought against......other pirates/privateers/bucaneers/small local targets. Not so much against navy ships or wel armed trading vessels. Forgive me my English, not my native language as a crazy Dutchman. But it is truth that a 20 gun sloop can badly damage larger vessels and win battles against stronger opponents but a pirate captain will think twice before doing so. Pirates where much often alone, one maybe two or three ships....military vessel mostly sailed in squadrons or fleets, not such a good idea to attack them :)
Of course that 20 gun sloop might not have big enough guns to get through the reinforced hull of a ship of the line, and one broadside from that ship of the line would blow a sloop to pieces, if it could get enough of its guns to bear.
If you fire from far, the top guns ought to land right on the enemy's deck.
I think the only (few) examples of a sloop beating a ship of the line though was when under a naval flag - and that's if you are counting some of Cochran's Spanish prizes due to their cannon count, not mission set.
But for some of early large scale privateer squadron during the early 1600s (which were in effect also naval forces in all but name), pirates almost always got butchered if they got corner by trained naval forces and would run like hell they could
"Brigantine, commonly known as Brig" - Thats wrong! They are completely different ship types! The Brig has got a square rigged aft mast, while the Brigantine hasnt!
Only twp of the ships shown at 5:23 and 5:54, during the brigantine segment were brigantines. 5:11 was a brig. I don't know what the one at 5:36 was, but with three masts, the after two lateen rigged, it was not a brigantine, nor was it from the golden age of piracy. 5:47 and 6:21 are what would later be called barques except for being lateen rigged. The one at 6:08 is a barque. If Edward Teach's ship had three masts, it wasn't a brig or brigantine.
The rig at 6:53 is also a barque, not a ship.
Oooh
@@jakeeschen7868 5:36 might've been a Caravel of some sort.
Edit: Caravela redondas had a round sail followed by 2 lateen sails. Not golden age, but could've been used by privateers in the 1500s.
@@roguegen5536 I bow to you, sir.
Lol. I thought brigantine was a smaller brother of brig.
As a founding player of Sea of Thieves, seeing SoT artwork for this video made me smile. Great video
was about to comment the same😂
Well, you gave it a good shot and it was enjoyable to watch. Others have made points about your centuries being wrong, and your notations of certain ships being the wrong kind. I'd like to point out a couple of things that might otherwise not be noticed:
(1) By far the most common entry into piracy was actually via letters of marque, by which ship captains, both civilian and military, were given permission to prey on the shipping of countries at war with their own. Once they were out to sea, though, captains and crews got a lot less picky about their targets, especially in cases where they knew they wouldn't be caught.
(2) Many of the bigger ships you listed here, and things like the fluyt, were pirate ships only in the sense that they were captured by them - and called "prizes". That's one of the reasons why pirate ships carried so many men - they intended to replace the crews of captured ships, because it was a far quicker and easier task than transferring cargo on the open sea. Once the prize had been sailed to a friendly port and the cargo sold or divided up, they were usually abandoned (or, in some cases, refitted to serve again as trade ships for new owners).
(3) The largest galleons, despite being slower, weren't often targeted by pirates for capture, and only a handful actually were (and many of these were while the ships were in port). A few reasons for this were clear: First, despite being slower, they WERE far larger, and their crews were both massive and often well trained or supported by marines, rather than the frightened skeleton crews of civilian merchants. Second, they seldom sailed alone, and in the later part of the Golden Age of Piracy, they sailed as seldom as once a year. They did this as much to protect against pirates as to prevent mutiny, and to ensure that the wreck of a ship in the fleet could be witnessed and recorded, to better enable others to recover whatever cargo and survivors there might have been.
The Queen Anne's was actually a french trade frigate la concorde that was stolen by another pirate and then given to Edward teach AKA Blackbeard and was not a galleon, and brigs and brigantine are different ships with the rigging the brig is primarily square rigged and the brigantine has no square sails on the mizen mas
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I was just about to comment that Brigs and Brigantines were 2 different types of ship
A "brig" is a two masted ship with square sails. A "brigantine" is a two masted ship rigged with square sails on the foremast, and triangular sails on the aft mast. A two masted ship with both masts rigged with fore-to-aft (triangular) sails is a "schooner". And a two masted schooner with one square sail above the main triangular sail on the foremast, but with both aft mast sails being fore-to-aft, is a "topsail schooner".
The Queen Anne was actually a slave ship, not a trade ship. And while it was French when Blackbeard took it, one pirate in his crew describes it as having a Dutch look, but nobody really knows where it was actually built
Brigantines do not have mizzen masts they have fore and main masts with the main mast being fore-and-aft rigged though the mainmast was commonly fitted with a square rigged topsail and those with out this square rigged topsail were typically called hermaphrodite brigs or brig-schooners, but of course they were still brigantines
a fluyt was slow tho, there were however other dutchship types that had similar lines that were faster and used as warship/pirate ship
@Karl with a K Pirates with a steam engine is a scary thought.
What other dutchship types were faster that are similar to it?
bruh the fact that you said that the queen annes revenge was a galleon shows that you didn't do any research the queen annes revenge was a guineaman,
at best you could say it is a small frigate
Well technically it was a frigate stolen from french slave traders then re-outfitted to be more like a galleon without compromising the ships speed
@@benjamincastro6063 Then when Blackbeard captured it he improved it even further.
Meh, there are contemporary drawings that portray her as a galleon, although subsequent detailed models to have her in a Guineaman pattern.
Regardless it remains unclear if she was laid down as a slaver or not and does not have the full wide profile you'd expect with purpose-built Guineaman from later in the 1700s and probably underwent considerable hull modifications by the French when they took her into military service as a frigate which may have cut down her deck houses for stability.
Depends on the rating system you go by, the 1700 went on the speed and displacement, which here you would be correct. But if you use the table lade out by the british admiralty at the end of the 1700s and start of the napoleonic times it would have listed as 6th rate or 5th as they went by cannon count, not by speed.
The queen Anne's revenge had 40 allegedly which would place her in the 5th rate, 30 would place her in the 6th rate or frigates.
Either way she was the largest of the pirate vessels. I stopped watching the second the information was wrong about the QAR
@@Robert53area As she was never built as a warship she had no warship clasification. She was neither a Galleon (god no!) Or a frigate. She was a retourship. A trader, modified to fit the needs of Teatch
1st pictures were cutters, not sloops. Sloop has a for and aft main sail and one jib.
Brig and Brigantine are different sail plans. Brig has a square main sail and spanker, while Brigantine is rigged with for and aft main sale (usualy gaff or lateen). Ppl tend to enchange theese two because they both have two masts and look very similar, but sail handeling is different.
Square rigged ships were all planed with square sails. The word you were probably looking for was ,,Full rigged ship" and Barq in this case of the ship in the picture. Sometimes pictures mixed with a different ship types and sail plans generaly.
Dutch Flyut (Flauta) was mirror backed and pear hulled. Described very well but pictures from wikipedia are wrong. Galleon and Bilander mixed in the compilation.
Flying Dutchman in the legend was Flyut, "they say". But in the Pirates of Caribbean we can see Galleon.
Queen´s Anne Revenge wasnt a Galleon. Originaly it was slave traders Frigate La Concorde and Blackbeard converted the build by adding castle and an other deck to improve gun placement areas. It was more of a hybrid and from latest views they would call it Frigate-built.
Frigates were 5th rate ships made for speed and maneuverability and specific tasks. Also able to effectively stand in the line formation. Only one gun deck and flush deck.
More gun decks or gunned on main deck were so called ,,Frigade-built ships of the line". 4th and 3rd rated. Not a huge difference, but still.. More than one gun decks wasnt a Frigate. Frigate can be sometimes exchanged for French Corvette. Similar pourposes, similar build and sail plan...
However, this was one of the best videos i have ever seen on this topic. With a large reach of informations. Beutyful work. Good job. And good luck with your future endeavours. :) ;)
so you are saying that the most famous frigate of all time, one heavily featured in the video and stated in official documents from its 1797 building are WRONG?
someone tell the US Navy that the USS Constitution isn’t a frigate because some guy on the internet said so!
Xebecs and corvettes are the hidden gem types of pirate ships. They have good speed even against the wind (similar to sloops) and they have decent payloads for crews and cannons. Man of war is actually the worst choice for piracy and if pirates are lucky to hijack one.
imagine a modern pirate owning an aircraft carrier.
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@@Zenovarse best analogy for man of war pirate ship.
@@Zenovarse Tale Spin wipes incoming!
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Now that’s an idea.
I remember playing Sid Meirs Pirates, step one at the start of every game? Hang out around a large English or French port and snag a frigate. Made the game a lot easier in the long run.
Great game.
I think if I were a pirate I would try my hand at sailing a Brig of War or a former Slave Ship. I think those would be ideal for pirating around. Great video.
actually brigantines/brigantinas where the smaller version of a "brig" (if u dont know, thats the type of ship edward kenway sails in)
Difference is rig (sails) at main mast:
Brig = Square rigged (square sails) at main mast
Brigantine = gaff rigged (gaff sials) at main mast (+ maybe a square top sail)
The difference in the terms had nothing to do with size, only the type of rigging across the vessels' two masts
I'm replaying that he lmao
As I recall from Sid Meier's Pirates! Gold, the ultimate pirate ship was the barque; two masted with triangular sails, it was sturdier and pack more guns and men than a sloop, but was maneuverable, so you could pound away at the heavier warships while always staying out of their canon range because you could sail so much closer into the wind than they could do they could never get you broadside.
What's was a good game.
Actually... "Brigantines" and "Barquentines" were ONLY Two Masted! Once you went into "Three Masted" then you get into Frigates and Merchantman ships like the French Merchantman that became Edward Teach/Blackbeard's Great Flag Ship "Queen Anne's Revenge"!
Also "GALLEONS" were Spanish and English and later French and Portages... But were "Out of Date" for Pyrates by the early/mid-18th. Century as they were too slow and heavy and were ditched in favor of Frigates and Merchantman Ships which were more Modern and MUCH Faster but could ALSO be VERY Well/Heavily Armed!
And "QUEEN ANNE'S REVENGE" was NOT A "GALLEON"! It was a FRENCH MERCHANTMAN SLAVER SHIP that was HEAVILY ARMED but LOW in DRAFT and Quite Fast! But it was NOT A "GALLEON"! As I said "GALLEONS" were Out Dated for Most Pyrates by the 18th. Century/1700's!
somesay its a concord renamed as QAR idk that is true
@@rezendeiiz.knight1084 yes, Queen Anne's revenge was a french slave ship named La Concord, Blackbeard modified it into a frigate
Eh, your correct. But in all fairness it is an easy mistake to make. The QAR does have a passing resemblance to one. This was probably done by design. The Spanish and Italians also continued to refer to the large cargo and treasure ships as Galleons well into the 18th century. These ships do have similar profiles to the old galleons. I think one could easily get these confused.
most stuff in this video is bullshit with no real sources
Barquentines were 3 masted. What a Barquentine specifically refers to is a ship with three masts with only the fore-mast square rigged. There's also Brigs (2 masts, all square-rigged), Barques (3+ masts, all but the rear are square-rigged) and Jackass Barques (3-mast, foremast square rigged, mainmast hybrid, mizen fore-and-aft OR 4-mast, foremast and forward mainmast square rigged, rear mainmast and mizen fore-and-aft). Frigates and Merchantmen were full-rigged ships (3-mast, all square rigged OR 3+1-mast, all three primaries square rigged with a fore-and-aft Jiggermast).
“You can’t build a pirate ship.”
Stede Bonnet- hold my beer
Meanwhile the Jackdaw annihilates fleets of frigates with mortars alone.
Finally that people are explaining what pirates really used and how they use them
It's not completely accurate. It somewhat gets caught up in the nightmare that is sail ship classification systems.
@@themanformerlyknownascomme777 By "not completely accurate", do you mean "not remotely accurate"?
You missed some:
2:16 Besides sloops you also had gunboats (really small), cutters (the sloop you describe), 2:44 Dutch Yachts (a sloop with a cabbin) and a Yaw (A Yacht with guns even inside the cabbin)
3:08 This is a brigataine
3:55 Those are both two masted ships so they can't be sloops
4:15 You forget to talk about the Ketch (lower aftmast)
5:10 This is a brig. The differende being "fully" square rigged (or a snow)
5:46 This really isn't a brigantine or a brig. More a galleon because of the high aft and third mast
5:58 I've got no idea what you would call this. Or if something like this even ever existed
6:08 A small fregatte or corvette
6:21 Galleons again
7:06 "not designed as fighting vessels" *shows a lineship/man-o-war
8:15 The "fluit/fluyt" meaning flute were meant for all the nordic seas where there weren't many pirates so they didn't have much guns.
9:13 They were flat-bottomed so they can sail in shalow water like rivers. This made them not really suited for open-ocean. This has nothing to do with taxes. Also those taxes were about the with of the main deck, not the area.
9:45 This can't be true because Flutes were slow AF
10:25 The Galleon is a Dutch type. Spanish and Swedish (like the Wasa) just made them bigger. A large Galleon is called a man-o-war and were indeed used as priceships.
12:21 The biggest difference between a galleon and a man-o-war is the third gundeck like with this one. They could also be used as lineships by the navy
13:13 You forget to say they were as low as possible to increase the change of cannonballs flying right over.
This is a long list but it's still a good video. Tnx for making it
5:58 is from a game, there are no leesails (I think that's what they're called) or gaff sails because you need good visibility and would have to spend ages lowering and raising sails, and its a fast paced game at times so that wouldn't work.
@@SC-xt8lz Fair enough
I'm quite certain Sloops more often than not had two masts for British classification. Now for the American colonies it's a one mast classification for what makes a sloop.
@@kevinvelado9907 in the royal navy system (from 1775 onwards) every navy vessel was a sloop(-of-war) unless it was a rated full rigged ship (the smallest rate beeing a sixth rate: a frigate with 20 or more guns). In those times there were no official british corvettes, french corvettes would most often beeing called "sloop" by the royal navy.
Barques as well right?
A fun topic, you need to do a little research on ship types, but it was entertaining. There are many different books that could help you. Read up and enjoy! Thank you for taking an interest in nautical history. I love it too!
did he just say “15th century man o war”
and claim that a brig had 3 masts
and show a picture of a ship of the line when he said “square rigged ships were not designed for war” or something
He couldn’t have, then he wouldn’t know what he was talking about!
The guy is absolutely bonkers tbh, many history channels don’t know what the hell they are saying
I'd like to add that what he claims to be 21st century frigate is a 1960s Royal Navy Tiger-class light cruiser "Blake".
@@leriel3127 I did not know that one since my specialty is the 18th and early 19th century, but it just adds to the joke that is this video.
@tomastobonjaramillo1092 gold and gunpowder is pretty great tho
Probably been said before but the modern ship was not a Frigate it was a Tiger Class Cruiser. C99 HMS Blake.
Now I have to imagine a crew of pirates in the golden age sailing a 21. century frigate
Lol
Piracy is without doubt one of the best aspects of history especially the golden age
Most of the pictures shown during the "brigantine" segment are galleons, not brigantines.
And most of the things said here about square rigged ships is just wrong. They weren't all slow cargo haulers. Frigates, Ships of the Line, Corvettes and Sloops-of-war were all square rigged ships and built for combat. Frigates and smaller square rigged ships were quite maneuverable.
The info about the Fluyt missed the point. They were designed to minimize the Danish sound toll, but that's NOT why they had a shallow draft. Fluyts had a shallow draft because a deep draft vessel couldn't enter Dutch ports. The design feature that made them tax-evaders was a pronounced tumblehome that gave them a tiny deck compared to the broad hold. (i.e., they were "pear-shaped" when viewed from the stern).
They had to enter Amsterdam through the Zuiderzee, what is now the IJsselmeer.
Yes, it's some of the more nuanced things.
The part about the only measuring the tiny upperdeck to evade Danish sound toll is a myth formed from a mistake.
With one exception for the timber-ship that sailed to Norway, built from 1647 in the so-called new form, with a broader fore and aft than amidships. Fluyts designed for timber transport were built with a wasp waist and an extended hull fore and aft to avoid payments. Despite being common knowledge, Norwegian toll-officers were unable to do anything, as the skippers played by the rules of the 1647 treaty. This stated that the measurement of the width should be taken amidships.
The Fluyt was designed to be a proper cargo vessel, it was build for maximum of space and crew efficiency. It was cheap to build, hold more cargo than other ships (great for bulk buying) and could sail with a smaller crew and therefore also cheaper overall to operate, with a shallow draft because of the shallow waters in the Netherlands.
If you want to read about it, there is a PDF on it, but with youtube being youtube, links probably don't work so you have to search for it yourself: The_Flute_and_the_Sound_toll (most likely the first link and the pdf is in English)
A good little video. From one that was in the US Navy, aboard the USS Davidson FF 1045. Now I build wooden model ships.
The golden age of piracy was during the 17th and 18th century, not the 16th and 17th. Basically ran from 1650 to 1730, possible until 1735.
Thats likely what he ment anyway, but forgot that "th century" follows the rule of " hundreds - 1". 17th century = 1600's.
More accurately 1715 to 1725. The so-called 'golden age' of piracy.
@@oldsilverdrew2471 1650 - 1730, according to wikipedia. OP is correct.
Could be that he isn't from a country that uses 17th century for the 1600s
„Not designed as fighting vessels“ they said. Showing the „Santisima Trinidad“ in the background. The largest warship of the age of sail, sunk at Trafalgar 1805. With a crew of over a thousand men and up to (I think) 120 guns.
Not sunk, captured. The British towed her back to port and scuttled her after
@@ethanjustice8890 no, they wanted to tow her back to port, but she sank in a storm a day after the battle due to the damages she recieved during the battle. I didn't bother to type out that small difference for reasons of simplicity.
So yes, she was captured by the British, you're right. But no, she wasn't scuttled.
The ship at 5:13 is a Brig! The narrator mixes a Brig and a Brigantine several times. A Brig has square sails on two masts, a Brigantine has square sails on the fore mast and fore and aft sails on the rear mast. Both of which have only two masts,
Thank you for this! The Pirate video I didn’t know I wanted or needed 💀
Speed and fire power. Co incidentally, what you need in a fighter aircraft. ships don't really care much about altitude as long as it's above sea level
I feel like this has something to do with Hawaii Five-oh; heavy construction equipment and other related topics of conversation 😉
If a sloop was good enough for 'Sea Wolf' Thomas Cochrane it'd be good enough for me.
Some of the earlier pirates that often get over shadowed by the Caribbean counter parts are the barbary pirates. Wish you would've included something about them too
The Barbary pirates were different, for most of their existence they were the commerce raiding portion of the Ottoman navy, and most of their captains had the "Reis" title indicating their service in the Ottoman Empire (Reis was the rank title for a navy captain in the Ottoman empire). The tradition was started by Oruc Reis in the early 16th century
@@mrvwbug4423 earlier on sure, but later around the 17th century, algeirs became especially more autonomous and the Barbary pirates like jack ward and Jan janzsoon did not swear allegiance to the ottomans
Lol. The Sea of Thieves Brig and Skelly Galleon at 6:00
Love it thank you
So basically you just gave us a list of practically every major class of ship available in the Caribbean and said "pirates stole these and used them".
However, your breakdown of the advantages and disadvantages of each was pretty good. But you missed two major advantages of slops and schooners - their sail arrangement allowed them to sail closer into the wind than square rigged ships could and their large sail area to hull size ratio made them faster in lighter breezes, allowing them to catch slower merchant ships and out sail pursuing naval vessels.
I get your point, but I think it is more apt to refer to sea pirates as opportunists rather than criminals, considering that their strategies were and still are on par with today’s modern political systems…!
Nah! I call them sweethearts.
So criminals?
Sloop, Barques and Pinnaces…small, fast and maneuverable with smaller crews and shallow draft.
Um, the photo of the 20th century frigate was actually of either HMS Tiger or HMS Blake, the two Tiger class CRUISERS converted to carry helicopters. They were part of the Tiger class of three vessels built as light cruisers in the early 1950s. Frigates of that time, and into the late 1960s, we’re usually about half the size of these cruisers.
I'm surprised you didn't mention the the Clipper. Originally made by the dutch, 4 mast, Long, narrow body, light on the water, yet fast. With only 2 desks it forgo crew space for cargo. With 18 guns and sailing 16.5 kn it was faster then the ships on this list. The Maryland Clipper made by the colonies were even faster at 18.5 kn with 20 guns. The Maryland clipper mast Sweep back while the Dutch Clipper mast Lean Forward. Maryland Clipper are still in use today just nolonger for cargo.
He missed a LOT of things. And also that the Galleon is not a Spanish ship it was originally built by the Dutch, but the Spanish later copied it.
Bastian. No, a brig had two masts, and a Brigantine had two masts with a fore-and-aft rigged sail in the mizzen mast. He does confuse Brigs and Brigantines, however. And broadly lumps various ships as square rigged.
And never even said arrrrrr once.
Russel Cole: Brigs and brigantines don’t have a mizzen mast! Two masts; main and fore. Brigantine main mast is fore and aft rigged. Brig main mast is square rigged. The after mast is called the main mast because it’s taller than the fore mast. Two- masted vessel with the after mast being shorter (mizzen mast) is called a ketch.
What a terrific topic! Thank you.
TH-cam does a poor job recommending your channel. I watch a boatload (pun intended) of history videos and only recently got a recommendation.
the pirates port and gold and gunpowder are just the channels u need
Great job! Loved every second of this video. Would really enjoy a sequel of modern day pirate ships.
Funfact: one of the most important reasons for the Dutch to dominate in trade was the invention of the windmill saw, this way we could saw timber automatically instead of by hand. 30 times faster in fact. We could build ships faster than anyone else on the planet and for only half the cost.
Enjoyed your pirate ship description list , but it left out Chinese Junks vessels. I read once that they were popular as pirate ships for their close hauled sailing abilities.
what if a vessel like the legendary Tea-Clipper Cutty Sark with a full crew compliment was to be, by some unexplainable phenomenon, displaced in time and location subsequently captured and transformed into a proper privateers vessel?
Love running into Avery and the Fancy after finally playing through Uncharted 4 😄
Loved the documentary being a Seafarer myself. Excellent
Really enjoyed this video! Thanks for posting.
Did anyone else spend this entire video comparing the ships mentioned to ships seen in the pirates of the Caribbean series?
No ships from black flag, Xbox 360.
14:29 Jam a man XD
Pirate ship stories are the best and Love
Slavetraders were sought after since they were built for speed (the quicker you make the journey the more "cargo" survives), had lots of hold space and were designed to work with minimal crews. Also, taking a full one meant either/or lots of volunteers to hire/"cargo" to sell off.
Not to mention that many pirates targeted slave ships because they abhorred the slave trade.
@@forrestcommander6283 Or they needed an influx of crewmen that weren’t exactly in a position to decline.
@@BullGator-kd6ge actually not really. There were a lot of pirates who had no problems with slavery (Bart Roberts and Barbary-Pirates would be examples) but there were just as many who heavily opposed it. Most of the anti-slavery pirates often dealt with the Spanish and probably knew what "slavery" meant because for the Spanish slavery wasn't purely based on racism alone. Instead of executing pirates (wich also actually happened kinda rarely) the spaniards loved to sentence pirates (and suspected pirates, AKA non-Spanish sailors) to a lifetime of slavery, no matter their skin-colour. Famous examples of this are Francois L'Olonnais or Roc Basiliano, who were both sold/sentenced into spanish slavery but(probably) escaped.
Good stories I never knew that there were so many different ships were used by pirates.
They were usually sloops, schooners, brigs, brigantines, and sometimes, frigates.
Pirates didn’t use galleons. They were inefficient for the job.
And impossible to capture.
@@biggusdickus819 Try telling that to Henry Morgan or Henry Every.
@@ThePoliticrat Henry Morgan mostly attacked ports and small Spanish ship squadrons not full on galleons...
@@biggusdickus819 I mean, galleons can still be relatively small in size. It was a specific design; not a class of ship.
@@ThePoliticrat A galleon would not be accompanied by a small squadron of ships that are small.
If Sid Meyers taught me anything, it's to go with the frigate, or if you can't get one, a brig.
Thank you for telling me about pirate ships, Dr. Bashir.
1:10 Flat Earthers Nightmare.
the sea of thieves artwork at 6 minutes made me happy😂😂
5:50 ...GORGEOUS
now this is a beautiful channel
"I've heard of one, supposed to be nigh uncatchable. The Black Pearl."
Number 1: that one sloop that refuses to leave and keeps fighting you
There is so much misinformation and endorsement of common myths in this video that I‘m not even going to adress it.
The flyinh dutchmen: a dutch ship.
You wouldn't suspect it.
You've missed the galley's and xebecs that the Barbary corsairs used. Very formidable ships
Professor, what's another name for pirate's treasure?
Well, I think it's BOOTY. BOOTY. 😆
great video
Well, don’t you consider Privateers a form of Pirates?
I spend nearly a year as a Cadet on a Full Rigged Training Ship, it was an awesome experience!
Great & educational & informative.
Queen Anne’s Revenge was a frigate...
I am building the model, Cutty Sark. Something about these ships draw landlovers like me to want to sail the high seas.
I couldn't help but laugh when he said "Booty".
most priates began as freebooter. Meaning a lot of pirates started as someone that worked for a nations navy fleet and had the mission to plunder specific nations ships. But certain captains wanted more and so started in pirating.
Just love it, congrats and thanks
Very useful video, played right into my laziness by saving me a bunch of researching and Wikipedia reading lol
Hope you're having a good day, dear reader :)
Cool trivia.
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Mighty fine and informative but you just concentrated on the Golden Age. I was kinda hoping on Viking Longboats and Trireme ships...
Bippity bopitty, your ship is now our property.
Sloop, brig, and galleon. Just those ones
Also the time line you got wrong, frigates are 1700-1800 for the pictures you shown it lasted until the 1860s
There's also the chebecks, they were only used in the méditerranean sea, but they were largely used by the pirates there
I like how they use a picture of the hms sovereign as a picture under galleons even though it was classified as a massive 1st rate ship of the line that I believe had had the capability of holding 192 guns and was equally a massive financial nightmare
I saw the flying Dutchman last week 😆
I think the queen anne's revenge was actually a frigate .
yes its a frigate 3 mast before it known as QAR is actually a concord but idk thats true the ship model is based off
Frigates should be the weapon of choice for a 🏴☠
the queen anne's revenge was a frigate not a galleon
Love that intro!!!
Did you see 3rd or 4th rate ships of the line cap is the line captured or mutineed into pirate ships?
As much as I would’ve loved having a huge Galleon I honestly prefer smaller ships like Schooners or sloops. I know without a doubt I would’ve favored a sloop over most if not all. True it’s hold was small and it’s crew number would’ve been very low. But it’s strategic use is far too great to overlook. It could sail good even against the wind when most other ships would lose almost all maneuverability trying to sail against the wind. A sloop not so much. I’d fit as many heavy guns as my sloop could carry and deck out my small crew with the best weaponry to make them even more effective killers when boarding. Run rings around helpless and slower ships as I rip open their hulls and then fill their crew with grape shot. Once the enemy crew has been demoralized and butchered by the hail of grape shot then I’d give the order to board. Using all manner of hand grenades and using the smoke from all the cannon fire to shock and attack the enemy with lightening speed and ferocity. Try and kill the captain quickly or take them hostage forcing the crew to surrender themselves and their ship to me.
OK, I'm sold. When do we set sail?
@@Joker-yw9hl when I can get a ship my friend, and since you are the first volunteer you get to be first mate.
So Henry Every is the richest Pirate ever existed.
Before he died
Henry Every: Wealth, Fame, Power!
I would so much like to like this video, but there is just so much wrong information about pirates, so i just cant. Thats too bad, as it seems like the quality of the video is good.
"Pirates usually weren't in the business of buying things"
Depends on the particular pirate crew.
👍 nice video