ipl-logo

Blackbeard's Journey: A Short Story

215 Words1 Page

The journey is grim, but profitable. Although rations were tough, my crew were trained to withstand hunger and sickness to ride with me. Even if we ran out of water, we couldn’t drink the sea, for the water was toxic of salt. The year was 1704. It was a stormy day out at sea. Me and my crew were riding the Royal Fortune out into the marine toward Blackbeard’s hideout, on a hidden cove near a small city in Wales. We slowly ride on, taking hours to reach our destination, but finally, we arrive. At the beginning, we dock. One of my finest crewmates, John Wagney, notifies me that everyone on Blackbeard’s team was asleep. That was abnormal to hear, for pirates are usually the type to stay up all night, sing sea songs, and guzzle rum. As

Show More
Related

  • Walter Rlegh Research Paper

    938 Words  | 4 Pages

    Before the English venture of Roanoke, many Europeans had tested the waters of the New World. Whether it was to raid ships along the coast of the Newfoundland or establish colonies in the New World, several men had plans for exploration. Elizabeth’s sea dogs were prompted to partake in piracy and attack the Spanish at sea. However, due to various dangers with Spanish warships and the Bahama Channel the privateers were not consistently successful (Horn 35). Ralegh recruited the “most remarkable men” for his All-Star exploration team.

    Read More

  • Beard Blackbeard: The Most Famous Pirates

    213 Words  | 1 Pages

    Do you know that according to some accounts, the beard that covers Beard Blackbeardś face, went all the way down to his waist.what concern is that he goes into battle, Blackbeard possession of marijuana rope.blackbeard is the most famous pirates, because the pirates, death and legacy. Blackbeard is or was the most famous pirate . While other pirates buried their prey black beard was not known to do so. Instead, it was the private sector, who provide 10% of the booty to him in the United Kingdom and the United States Government. Blackbeard was a woman, but not children, because his job as a pirate.

    Read More

  • How Did Blackbeard Influence Pirates

    775 Words  | 4 Pages

    When they finally defeated Blackbeard they killed or kept his crew as prisoners. And hung Blackbeard's head on their ship to threated other pirates. It is a myth that today you can see his ghost swimming in the ocean looking for his head. Their attack on Black beard was successful and in the end they beheaded Blackbeard and hung it as warning to other

    Read More

  • Endearth Castle Research Paper

    1787 Words  | 8 Pages

    They sailed into the Last Sea, and on into the Silent Ocean believing themselves lost. For a year and a day they sailed; they sailed past the Seadragons lair and there they lost ships. They sailed through storms, through doldrums, through rain, and fog, and black starry nights. They sailed so long that their hair and teeth began to fall out, and people grew so mad that they tossed themselves over the sides. They saw no land, they had no food, when a man succumbed to madness and took his life, the people ate him that night."

    Read More

  • Compare And Contrast Jamestown And Plymouth

    663 Words  | 3 Pages

    On their journey the people traveling on the boat had become seasick, others had some type of virus that caused

    Read More

  • Paul A. Gilje's To Swear Like A Sailor

    498 Words  | 2 Pages

    In Paul A. Gilje’s book, To Swear Like a Sailor, Gilje explains how maritime culture shaped our country, but more importantly how life at sea was just as much affected by life on dry land as life and literature on land affected sailors. This is especially since “the majority of Americans lived close to saltwater.” He uses examples from writers like Mark Twain, Herman Melville, James Fenimore Cooper, and even Edgar Allan Poe as sources. But stories such as Moby Dick, The Narrative of Gordon Pym of Nantucket, Red Rover and “Rime of the Ancient Mariner” (by Samuel Taylor Coleridge) were not the only sources of information Gilje reminds us of. Sailors themselves would “spin yarns,” keep logbooks and journals, and sometimes sell their works and

    Read More

  • Compare And Contrast Jamestown Vs Plymouth

    1063 Words  | 5 Pages

    Jamestown vs Plymouth We’ve been on this boat for months now, searching and hoping to see the first sign of the new world. We have struggled and gone through a lot of hardships many having to do with the weather, starvation, no clean water and shortness of supplies. My experience in this ship has been horrible we are not able to shower and we are running low on food.

    Read More

  • Tyrus Hero's Journey

    1045 Words  | 5 Pages

    The smell of the reeky, sour, sewage-like polluted ocean constantly caused Tyrus to vomit. The violent waves that shook the boat like an earthquake only worsened Tyrus’s

    Read More

  • Alexander Falconbridge Essay

    479 Words  | 2 Pages

    That’s when he realized his chances of seeing his home country again were very slim. The smell under the decks were so terrible that he became so sick he was unable to eat; he wished death would relieve him. When it was time to eat and he refused, he got laid down, his feet tied and beaten badly. He found some of his countrymen and asked what was going on and they told him they are being carried to the white people’s country to work for them. The boat lacked fresh air and it was so hot and unbearable that people became sick and died.

    Read More

  • Who Is To Blame For Blackbeard's Death

    793 Words  | 4 Pages

    The 18th century was the golden age of piracy. Piracy was a common crime, and prevented many ships from reaching their destination with the cargo they set sail with. Many of these pirates reached such a level of infamy that their names have evolved into legends. Among these names are pirates like Captain Kidd, Black Bart, and possibly the most infamous of all, Blackbeard. Blackbeard, also known as Edward Teach, was a character that would strike fear into the hearts of his victims.

    Read More

  • Analysis Of Alexander Falconbridge's An Account Of The Middle Passage

    1574 Words  | 7 Pages

    Alexander Falconbridge served as a surgeon on the ships that transported slaves through the middle passage. He managed to only make four voyages between 1780 and 1787 due to the harsh circumstances he was witnessing, which ultimately led him to write An Account of the Middle Passage. The Middle Passage was the hardest and most dangerous part of the voyage for any slave transported out of Africa. The article carefully describes the strenuous conditions the slaves were in while being in the ships. An analysis of Alexander Falconbridge’s An Account of the Middle Passage reveals how this surgeon’s perspective aided the progression of the abolition movement by showcasing a new perspective of the Middle Passage, and how his purpose was to inform the general public on how dreadful these

    Read More

  • Grendel's Destruction Of The Monster In Hamlet By William Shakespeare

    315 Words  | 2 Pages

    When I got to Denmark I heard that this creature named Grendel was infamous for seeking nights with terror. As well as this creature wanted to kill King Hrothgar. But that was the worst of it. Denmark was a great place marked off by oceans, and sunsets have been amazing since I’ve been here.

    Read More

  • Summary Of The Diligent

    1541 Words  | 7 Pages

    Going on slave voyages to Africa was a dangerous occupation to perform during the time of the Atlantic slave trade considering that “nearly one crew member in four died on French slaving voyages” (Harms 80). The Diligent would lose several of its crew members during the fifteen month voyage since it was relatively common to lose crew members and even the African captives during the Atlantic slave trade. Furthermore, the journey itself was difficult to accomplish during the Atlantic slave trade because of many factors such as “increased dangers from pirates, tropical diseases, and shipboard slave revolts made it risky” (Harms 80). On their way to Whydah and Martinique, the crew of the Diligent noticed a vessel that could have potentially been a pirate ship. Pirates were such a significant threat to the crew of the Diligent, that on their way back from Martinique, the Diligent had to travel with two other ships to protect their goods from being raided and jeopardized.

    Read More

  • Was William Molley A Success Or A Failure

    732 Words  | 3 Pages

    As a farewell present from the colonies Moraley didn’t have an easy sail. Sailing down the Delaware, the ship “was overtaken by my old Master Edmund Lewis, who demanded me of the captain, on account of an indenture between myself and him” but on a tight schedule the captain told the former master that if stayed on the ship he would surly have gone to sea along with the boat. (93) The next day the ship strung a leak, requiring both himself and the crew to pump continually. Finally, hoping to (finally) be dismissed, in Ireland the captain proclaimed that as soon as he had sold all his cargo would he would carry Moraley to the port of Whitehaven where his mother and sisters were residing.

    Read More

  • Essay About Immigrants Coming To America

    1508 Words  | 7 Pages

    Add to all that shortage of food, hunger, thirst, frost, heat, dampness, fear, misery, vexation, and lamentation as well as the troubles. Thus, for example, there are so many lice, especially on sick people, that they have to be scraped off the bodies. All this misery reaches its climax when in addition to everything one must also suffer through two to three days of nights of storm, with everyone convinced that the ship with all aboard is bound to sink. In such misery all the people on board pray and cry pitifully together

    Read More

More about Blackbeard's Journey: A Short Story

Open Document