The ship's namesake, Rear Adm. Isaac C. Kidd, shared his surname with a pirate captain from the 1700s ... There's an unverified story from the 1600s describing a naval battle between the Dutch ...

"Blackbeard" Teach, known more commonly by his colorful nickname, was a real-life pirate who sailed the West Indies and Caribbean in the late 1600s. His ship, Queen Anne's Revenge, was attacked by ...

When the real pirates of yore first landed on America’s shores in the 1600s, little did they know that one day, they would ...