October 30, 2020November 3, 2020Pirates Detailed estimate of time to construct and outfit a Viking longship – 4 of 5 Previous posts here, here, and here have quantified it might have taken somewhere between 44 and 47 people-years to construct and outfit […]
October 8, 2020October 8, 2020Pirates Models of sailing ships from around the time of Pirate Age. The Maritime Museum of San Diego has a large collection of ship models. While visiting the delightful museum recently I took a […]
August 17, 2020August 27, 2020Pirates Can we compare wages of merchant ship captain in the Pirate Era compare to today? How do we roll forward those financial amounts we read of during the pirate era to provide some sort of context for […]
August 13, 2020July 24, 2020Pirates Specific data points of pirate loot and wages during the Pirate Age. Since this website focuses on ancient finances, I am going to dive deeper into the financial amounts I can find from the […]
August 10, 2020August 27, 2020Pirates Value of Spanish silver dollar and British pound during the Pirate Age? Part 2 of 2 Continued discussion of the value of coinage during the pirate era. Part one is here So how do we understand British […]
August 6, 2020August 27, 2020Pirates Value of Spanish silver dollar and British pound during the Pirate Age? Part 1 of 2 The Spanish silver dollar is referred to as the first global currency. There were so many produced and they spread so far […]
August 3, 2020July 20, 2020Pirates Financial rewards of piracy. Author Eric Jay Dolin provides some indications of how lucrative it was to be a successful pirate in his book Black Flags, […]
July 30, 2020July 20, 2020Pirates Why go out pirating? How many pirates were there? In Black Flags, Blue Waters, author Eric Jay Dolin says that many men in the American colonies signed on with a pirate […]
July 27, 2020July 20, 2020Pirates Bad reputation of pirates was a good strategy for capturing ships. In Black Flags, Blue Waters author Eric Jay Dolin says pirates would rather not engage in a fight when they captured a […]
July 23, 2020July 20, 2020Pirates Photos for this discussion of pirates. Photographs for this series of posts are of the HMS Surprise, replica of a British 24-gun frigate named HMS Rose. The ship […]