Like Anne Bonny, Mary Read was one of two famous female pirates dressed like a man aboard John Rackham’s ship. Read was an illegitimate child. She was born around 1690 in Plymouth, England, to a ...

The world’s most notorious pirates terrorized the seven seas and amassed huge riches between the 16th and 19th centuries. Many of these ship plunderers remain famous to this day, but they were ...

Salem museum to mark 308 years since sinking of famous pirate ship 01:36. ... The Real Pirates Museum in Salem is hosting several events to celebrate the ship in its glory days.

Only a few fictional pirates have specific real-life counterparts, but the representation of such figures in Pirates of the Caribbean draws from pirate history as a whole — from the ships that ...

Pirates have been figures of fascination and fear for centuries. The most famous buccaneers have been shrouded in legend and folklore for so long that it's almost impossible to distinguish between ...