TBF, you probably also got scurvy if you were a regular sailor. If anything, pirates had an easier time because they don’t have to go on intercontinental voyages, and caribbean pirates also had a huge leg up over sailors who were active in arctic regions.
If you look at old drawings and depictions, they do look like we know them, but they may have been embellished even then. But Hollywood didn’t invent the image.
Pirates are still a thing, they just don’t look cool anymore.
TBF, I think movies made old pirates look a lot cooler than they really were.
Amen. Ain’t nothin’ cool about scurvy.
TBF, you probably also got scurvy if you were a regular sailor. If anything, pirates had an easier time because they don’t have to go on intercontinental voyages, and caribbean pirates also had a huge leg up over sailors who were active in arctic regions.
Shocker: movies are inaccurate.
If you look at old drawings and depictions, they do look like we know them, but they may have been embellished even then. But Hollywood didn’t invent the image.