7 Types of Ships that Pirates Used to Wreak Havoc...

Pirate ships could come in all shapes and sizes. There were big ones and small ones, sail ships and rowing boats. Some were bristling with cannons; others made do with scary fellas wielding cutlasses and grappling hooks. But what type of vessels were most popular among pirates, and how were they used? Let’s find out!
0:00 Introduction
2:15 Sloops
4:15 Schooners
5:07 Brigantines
6:48 Square-rigged Ships
8:14 The Dutch Fluyt
10:09 Galleons
13:12 Frigates
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[@ExAnimoPortugal]

"stolen to be made a pirate ship" Commandeered. Commandeered to be made a pirate ship. Nautical term.

[@HildegardActual]

Ah. Thank you Jack.

[@jackvandergriff]

“Commandeered. Commandeered you be made a pirate ship. Nautical term”🤓🤓

[@sapimakan4890]

Hear hear

[@enzoofelba]

"Borrowed. Borrowed, without permission"

[@Ben-mw9vz]

“Yoinked, yoinked for a devious lick..”

[@fishinwidow35]

My great-grandfather signed on board a sloop when he was 11 years old in about 1880. He was a life long sailor and loved reading about pirates. I have one of his books about them. He also carved ships during the off season. I think being a pirate was his fantasy.

[@cedo3333]

Nice story!

[@sneakysquirrl708]

Awww 🥰 that’s adorable

[@michaelbread5906]

Unless he WAS a pirate!

[@fishinwidow35]

@@michaelbread5906 Not from 1880 - 1920

[@Niko-the-Black-Dragon]

​@fishinwidow35 some sloops were still in use and production, though then only as fishing ships and small river merchant ships.

[@shuu-chan.desu.]

"Galleons. The one you've been waiting for" No, I was waiting for Frigates.

[@itsalmostfun8567]

true but i was slightly waiting for the gals

[@OverlordZephyros]

me the sloops lol

[@maszkalman3676]

Yeah if i were a pirate i would definitely choose a frigate or even a basic a$$ ship's captain...

[@christophermorris6386]

Definitely a frigate over any of the other choices. It may have fewer guns, but the trade-off speed is unacceptable. Especially when you could potentially have a Man-Of-War hunting you. While the gallie. May have been faster. I highly doubt it was fast enough to lose that ship. While a frigate could lose it. Monarchs regularly sent extremely powerful warships to hunt pirates. So it isn't out of the realm of possibility if you hurt a monarchs purse enough or a lord of some standing it was a very real possibility you could find one of those monsters on hunting you. For perspective, the gallie had a total of 70 guns and two gun decks while a Man Of War had 3 gun decks sometimes north of a 100 guns. With artillery depending on the year.

[@JohnnyC01]

Technically galeons are frigates, just from a previous century. Same as ship of lines, basically huge frigates.

[@roelantverhoeven371]

pirates' wet dream was a frigate, which was a full rigged threemaster, and these were the fastest ships around, faster on the long run than schooners, but they sat deeper in the water and needed a much larger crew, min. 200

[@besserwizard]

@Bodhy frigates could reach the same speed as sloops. In sailing it‘s not that important how small your ship is. But yes, you‘re somewhat right since sloops were good for sailing against the wind while square rigged frigates were fast only in front of the wind or to the side. I am sorry for the missing naval terms but I only know them in German.

[@phredphlintstone6455]

A sloop also has a shallower draft...thus it can sail in shallower waters. In sid Myers "pirates" you could get the larger ship to chase you across a reef, damaging their hull. In rl many of them would have become stuck.

[@furiousfelicia5751]

When I learned that these tall ships could reach speeds up to 15 kn, I was amazed. That's pretty fast..

[@user-lv7ph7hs7l]

@@furiousfelicia5751 15 knots is pretty rare. A ship of the line could do 8-11 knots, a frigate 11-13 knots.

[@user-lv7ph7hs7l]

@@furiousfelicia5751 Although HMS Endymion could do 14.5 knots and she was a heavy frigate too. To my knowledge the fastest British frigate. French ships where generally faster on average.

[@Zephraxe]

I love that the thumbnail is literally Sea of Thieves art lol

[@CapnMadelyn]

yes

[@fishlove1347]

Yep

[@canadiandoughnut8605]

Well, pirates ain’t it

[@ZombishTurkey]

Sea of thieves is amazing, and its great that he used it, however, he did not credit Rare and that, i cannot respect.

[@rrosski]

@@ZombishTurkey agree

[@YureiEko]

"No, one did not buy a pirate ship, one could only make a pirate ship" Stede Bonnet: *Hold my Heirlooms*

[@tastyteddybear9927]

Underrated comment

[@DontStealMyNoEffortName]

Technically it was bought as a merchant than became a pirate ship when he converted to piracy

[@xeric1953]

I originally took that as literally building them with materials but then realized they mean creating a pirate ship out of a ship that had a different purpose

[@BA-gn3qb]

A pirate walks into a bar with a steering wheel sticking out of his zipper. The bartender asks: "What's with the steering wheel?" And the pirate says: "AAAARRRRRRGH, It's driving me Nuts."

[@spikespa5208]

Pirate is interviewed by a reporter. Asked about his right arm hook, he says, "Lost it in a sword fight with a Spanish captain." Asked about his peg leg, he says, " Lost it in a gun battle with the English." Asked about his eye patch, he says "Saw a gull up in the rigging and it pooped right in my eye.......the day after I got my hook."

[@wg1751]

Well done

[@mariolisa2832]

@@spikespa5208 I dont get the gull bit but good effort

[@jaywerner8415]

GOOD JOKE!

[@ladiesfirst9030]

3/10

[@polaris30000]

One of the things about the larger ships as well, especially Naval ships of the line, was that they often had trouble shooting at the lower and faster ships with all of the guns available to them, especially once those ships got closer. Once you get into the naval rated ships, the upper gun decks would have been able to shoot at rigging and only the main hull on occasion if the roll was sufficient to drop the guns in line, at which point the lower gun decks were basically pointed into the ocean. This really evened things up because a 60 gun ship is only as good as a 20 gun ship if that's all it can bring to bear. Meanwhile, a 20 gun sloop has a large enough target to shoot at that a clean hit is easier to manage, or running with relative lack of fear of getting shot is plausible.

[@jasperoliger]

That's why I always liked the briginetens kinda best of both world short hulls mean more concentrated fire power but they are still fast if I were a pirate I'd want a brig for sure

[@napke8571]

Well some truth in but for sure ships of the line where not a main target by far in most cases. Imagine that even if only half of the guns on a let's say a 60-120 gun ship can be used 'in the roll of tides', 1 broadside hit and your sloop, schooner, fluyt or whatever was destroyed or badly damaged to continue an attack. Besides that, a small army of marines and seamen and other personel on those bigger ships where armed with muskets. Being shot by a vast number of enemies from the fighting tops, well not a good idea at all in closer range. Let alone that pirates enter and took over such vessels, in the movies yes but in reality a few. As a pirate crew even did made a succesfull entering, a new battle awaits against at least some hundreds of men and officers. Most people forget that many pirates did fought against......other pirates/privateers/bucaneers/small local targets. Not so much against navy ships or wel armed trading vessels. Forgive me my English, not my native language as a crazy Dutchman. But it is truth that a 20 gun sloop can badly damage larger vessels and win battles against stronger opponents but a pirate captain will think twice before doing so. Pirates where much often alone, one maybe two or three ships....military vessel mostly sailed in squadrons or fleets, not such a good idea to attack them :)

[@mrvwbug4423]

Of course that 20 gun sloop might not have big enough guns to get through the reinforced hull of a ship of the line, and one broadside from that ship of the line would blow a sloop to pieces, if it could get enough of its guns to bear.

[@JonatasAdoM]

If you fire from far, the top guns ought to land right on the enemy's deck.

[@willlasdf123]

I think the only (few) examples of a sloop beating a ship of the line though was when under a naval flag - and that's if you are counting some of Cochran's Spanish prizes due to their cannon count, not mission set. But for some of early large scale privateer squadron during the early 1600s (which were in effect also naval forces in all but name), pirates almost always got butchered if they got corner by trained naval forces and would run like hell they could

[@yeetimusputimus1985]

The Queen Anne's was actually a french trade frigate la concorde that was stolen by another pirate and then given to Edward teach AKA Blackbeard and was not a galleon, and brigs and brigantine are different ships with the rigging the brig is primarily square rigged and the brigantine has no square sails on the mizen mas

[@valteavuite6428]

👍👍👍

[@mike117712]

I was just about to comment that Brigs and Brigantines were 2 different types of ship

[@andrewhammel5714]

A "brig" is a two masted ship with square sails. A "brigantine" is a two masted ship rigged with square sails on the foremast, and triangular sails on the aft mast. A two masted ship with both masts rigged with fore-to-aft (triangular) sails is a "schooner". And a two masted schooner with one square sail above the main triangular sail on the foremast, but with both aft mast sails being fore-to-aft, is a "topsail schooner".

[@ajlandry1945]

The Queen Anne was actually a slave ship, not a trade ship. And while it was French when Blackbeard took it, one pirate in his crew describes it as having a Dutch look, but nobody really knows where it was actually built

[@RaidenKazehare]

Brigantines do not have mizzen masts they have fore and main masts with the main mast being fore-and-aft rigged though the mainmast was commonly fitted with a square rigged topsail and those with out this square rigged topsail were typically called hermaphrodite brigs or brig-schooners, but of course they were still brigantines

[@Benethor]

"Brigantine, commonly known as Brig" - Thats wrong! They are completely different ship types! The Brig has got a square rigged aft mast, while the Brigantine hasnt!

[@jakeeschen7868]

Only twp of the ships shown at 5:23 and 5:54, during the brigantine segment were brigantines. 5:11 was a brig. I don't know what the one at 5:36 was, but with three masts, the after two lateen rigged, it was not a brigantine, nor was it from the golden age of piracy. 5:47 and 6:21 are what would later be called barques except for being lateen rigged. The one at 6:08 is a barque. If Edward Teach's ship had three masts, it wasn't a brig or brigantine. The rig at 6:53 is also a barque, not a ship.

[@johnmcdyer7297]

Oooh

[@roguegen5536]

@@jakeeschen7868 5:36 might've been a Caravel of some sort. Edit: Caravela redondas had a round sail followed by 2 lateen sails. Not golden age, but could've been used by privateers in the 1500s.

[@jakeeschen7868]

@@roguegen5536 I bow to you, sir.

[@frankjames7272]

Lol. I thought brigantine was a smaller brother of brig.

[@billyhyde1415]

Well, you gave it a good shot and it was enjoyable to watch. Others have made points about your centuries being wrong, and your notations of certain ships being the wrong kind. I'd like to point out a couple of things that might otherwise not be noticed: (1) By far the most common entry into piracy was actually via letters of marque, by which ship captains, both civilian and military, were given permission to prey on the shipping of countries at war with their own. Once they were out to sea, though, captains and crews got a lot less picky about their targets, especially in cases where they knew they wouldn't be caught. (2) Many of the bigger ships you listed here, and things like the fluyt, were pirate ships only in the sense that they were captured by them - and called "prizes". That's one of the reasons why pirate ships carried so many men - they intended to replace the crews of captured ships, because it was a far quicker and easier task than transferring cargo on the open sea. Once the prize had been sailed to a friendly port and the cargo sold or divided up, they were usually abandoned (or, in some cases, refitted to serve again as trade ships for new owners). (3) The largest galleons, despite being slower, weren't often targeted by pirates for capture, and only a handful actually were (and many of these were while the ships were in port). A few reasons for this were clear: First, despite being slower, they WERE far larger, and their crews were both massive and often well trained or supported by marines, rather than the frightened skeleton crews of civilian merchants. Second, they seldom sailed alone, and in the later part of the Golden Age of Piracy, they sailed as seldom as once a year. They did this as much to protect against pirates as to prevent mutiny, and to ensure that the wreck of a ship in the fleet could be witnessed and recorded, to better enable others to recover whatever cargo and survivors there might have been.

[@RussellGummelt]

did he just say “15th century man o war” and claim that a brig had 3 masts and show a picture of a ship of the line when he said “square rigged ships were not designed for war” or something

[@alegsb3943]

He couldn’t have, then he wouldn’t know what he was talking about!

[@tomastobonjaramillo1092]

The guy is absolutely bonkers tbh, many history channels don’t know what the hell they are saying

[@leriel3127]

I'd like to add that what he claims to be 21st century frigate is a 1960s Royal Navy Tiger-class light cruiser "Blake".

[@besserwizard]

@@leriel3127 I did not know that one since my specialty is the 18th and early 19th century, but it just adds to the joke that is this video.

[@nikoisland6731]

​@tomastobonjaramillo1092 gold and gunpowder is pretty great tho

[@roelantverhoeven371]

a fluyt was slow tho, there were however other dutchship types that had similar lines that were faster and used as warship/pirate ship

[@blademaster4361]

@Karl with a K Pirates with a steam engine is a scary thought.

[@xeric1953]

As a founding player of Sea of Thieves, seeing SoT artwork for this video made me smile. Great video

[@MugRoohBeerh5812]

Finally that people are explaining what pirates really used and how they use them

[@themanformerlyknownascomme777]

It's not completely accurate. It somewhat gets caught up in the nightmare that is sail ship classification systems.

[@billyhyde1415]

@@themanformerlyknownascomme777 By "not completely accurate", do you mean "not remotely accurate"?

[@thatoneportuguese6843]

bruh the fact that you said that the queen annes revenge was a galleon shows that you didn't do any research the queen annes revenge was a guineaman, at best you could say it is a small frigate

[@benjamincastro6063]

Well technically it was a frigate stolen from french slave traders then re-outfitted to be more like a galleon without compromising the ships speed

[@George-Hawthorne]

@@benjamincastro6063 Then when Blackbeard captured it he improved it even further.

[@willlasdf123]

Meh, there are contemporary drawings that portray her as a galleon, although subsequent detailed models to have her in a Guineaman pattern. Regardless it remains unclear if she was laid down as a slaver or not and does not have the full wide profile you'd expect with purpose-built Guineaman from later in the 1700s and probably underwent considerable hull modifications by the French when they took her into military service as a frigate which may have cut down her deck houses for stability.

[@Robert53area]

Depends on the rating system you go by, the 1700 went on the speed and displacement, which here you would be correct. But if you use the table lade out by the british admiralty at the end of the 1700s and start of the napoleonic times it would have listed as 6th rate or 5th as they went by cannon count, not by speed. The queen Anne's revenge had 40 allegedly which would place her in the 5th rate, 30 would place her in the 6th rate or frigates. Either way she was the largest of the pirate vessels. I stopped watching the second the information was wrong about the QAR

[@captainharlock3998]

@@Robert53area As she was never built as a warship she had no warship clasification. She was neither a Galleon (god no!) Or a frigate. She was a retourship. A trader, modified to fit the needs of Teatch

[@jancda]

1st pictures were cutters, not sloops. Sloop has a for and aft main sail and one jib. Brig and Brigantine are different sail plans. Brig has a square main sail and spanker, while Brigantine is rigged with for and aft main sale (usualy gaff or lateen). Ppl tend to enchange theese two because they both have two masts and look very similar, but sail handeling is different. Square rigged ships were all planed with square sails. The word you were probably looking for was ,,Full rigged ship" and Barq in this case of the ship in the picture. Sometimes pictures mixed with a different ship types and sail plans generaly. Dutch Flyut (Flauta) was mirror backed and pear hulled. Described very well but pictures from wikipedia are wrong. Galleon and Bilander mixed in the compilation. Flying Dutchman in the legend was Flyut, "they say". But in the Pirates of Caribbean we can see Galleon. Queen´s Anne Revenge wasnt a Galleon. Originaly it was slave traders Frigate La Concorde and Blackbeard converted the build by adding castle and an other deck to improve gun placement areas. It was more of a hybrid and from latest views they would call it Frigate-built. Frigates were 5th rate ships made for speed and maneuverability and specific tasks. Also able to effectively stand in the line formation. Only one gun deck and flush deck. More gun decks or gunned on main deck were so called ,,Frigade-built ships of the line". 4th and 3rd rated. Not a huge difference, but still.. More than one gun decks wasnt a Frigate. Frigate can be sometimes exchanged for French Corvette. Similar pourposes, similar build and sail plan... However, this was one of the best videos i have ever seen on this topic. With a large reach of informations. Beutyful work. Good job. And good luck with your future endeavours. :) ;)

[@bostonrailfan2427]

so you are saying that the most famous frigate of all time, one heavily featured in the video and stated in official documents from its 1797 building are WRONG? someone tell the US Navy that the USS Constitution isn’t a frigate because some guy on the internet said so!

[@Lans32485]

I remember playing Sid Meirs Pirates, step one at the start of every game? Hang out around a large English or French port and snag a frigate. Made the game a lot easier in the long run.

[@cjguitars317]

Great game.

[@wiseone1013]

Piracy and big ships of all ages captures the imagination. Excellent content, interesting and informative.

[@simonrisley2177]

Fascinating -- and really well put together. Thank you!

[@Ravenoustoxic]

Xebecs and corvettes are the hidden gem types of pirate ships. They have good speed even against the wind (similar to sloops) and they have decent payloads for crews and cannons. Man of war is actually the worst choice for piracy and if pirates are lucky to hijack one.

[@Zenovarse]

imagine a modern pirate owning an aircraft carrier. ???

[@Ravenoustoxic]

@@Zenovarse best analogy for man of war pirate ship.

[@Ben-hz3hp]

@@Zenovarse Tale Spin wipes incoming!

[@Lolpy.]

@@Zenovarse Now that’s an idea.

[@thedictationofallah]

actually brigantines/brigantinas where the smaller version of a "brig" (if u dont know, thats the type of ship edward kenway sails in)

[@hans-peterbrugger8963]

Difference is rig (sails) at main mast: Brig = Square rigged (square sails) at main mast Brigantine = gaff rigged (gaff sials) at main mast (+ maybe a square top sail)

[@asprag2660]

The difference in the terms had nothing to do with size, only the type of rigging across the vessels' two masts

[@joetorrance4993]

I'm replaying that he lmao

[@brokenbridge6316]

I think if I were a pirate I would try my hand at sailing a Brig of War or a former Slave Ship. I think those would be ideal for pirating around. Great video.

[@keithkollenbaum]

Great job! Loved every second of this video. Would really enjoy a sequel of modern day pirate ships.

[@Msamuel022]

Thank you for giving actual clarity on the types of ships, their strengths and weaknesses. Very interesting so thankyou. A lot of the Internet just espects you to knowever very good. What I would of gone into however is is the advavances of technology over time as this is a massive factor in how these ships operated and where crewed. Overall thou thou, very informative and helpful.

[@wolf310ii]

Its more about type of ships in a game. In reallity it wasnt that easy rock paper scissor classification. The same ship could be a sloop, schooner, brig or brigantine, just by the way the sails were rigged. It was more the rig that was classified than the ship

[@dutchskyrimgamer.youtube2748]

The Flying Dutchman WAS a Fluyt. It was registered at Port Flushing (Villsingen) under Admiral van der Marck as "De Vliegende Hollander" the ship used in PotC is also a Fluyt.

[@RedRocketthefirst]

And the Galleon was a Dutch design not a Spanish

[@bostonrailfan2427]

@@RedRocketthefirst well considering that the Spanish ruled the Netherlands for years including when galleons were first introduced it’s not a shock…

[@RedRocketthefirst]

@@bostonrailfan2427 K. Galleons were still dutch, churros.

[@bostonrailfan2427]

@@RedRocketthefirst not really since it didn’t exist as a country yet when the ships were designed, but then again i’ve never seen a European who wasn’t able to twist history to make their point

[@wolf310ii]

@@RedRocketthefirst That doesnt make sense, not even that "Dutch" doesnt even existed when the galleon was invented for east and west india trade, the durch didnt had any use for a ship like a galleon at that time.

[@a8lg6p]

As I recall from Sid Meier's Pirates! Gold, the ultimate pirate ship was the barque; two masted with triangular sails, it was sturdier and pack more guns and men than a sloop, but was maneuverable, so you could pound away at the heavier warships while always staying out of their canon range because you could sail so much closer into the wind than they could do they could never get you broadside.

[@ReffaDay]

What's was a good game.

[@FordyTheConeSmoker]

Thank you for this! The Pirate video I didn’t know I wanted or needed 💀

[@spzm3x]

Great Video guys! Always great content.

[@Max.44]

Meanwhile the Jackdaw annihilates fleets of frigates with mortars alone.

[@intravenous1446]

“You can’t build a pirate ship.” Stede Bonnet- hold my beer

[@maasbekooy901]

You missed some: 2:16 Besides sloops you also had gunboats (really small), cutters (the sloop you describe), 2:44 Dutch Yachts (a sloop with a cabbin) and a Yaw (A Yacht with guns even inside the cabbin) 3:08 This is a brigataine 3:55 Those are both two masted ships so they can't be sloops 4:15 You forget to talk about the Ketch (lower aftmast) 5:10 This is a brig. The differende being "fully" square rigged (or a snow) 5:46 This really isn't a brigantine or a brig. More a galleon because of the high aft and third mast 5:58 I've got no idea what you would call this. Or if something like this even ever existed 6:08 A small fregatte or corvette 6:21 Galleons again 7:06 "not designed as fighting vessels" *shows a lineship/man-o-war 8:15 The "fluit/fluyt" meaning flute were meant for all the nordic seas where there weren't many pirates so they didn't have much guns. 9:13 They were flat-bottomed so they can sail in shalow water like rivers. This made them not really suited for open-ocean. This has nothing to do with taxes. Also those taxes were about the with of the main deck, not the area. 9:45 This can't be true because Flutes were slow AF 10:25 The Galleon is a Dutch type. Spanish and Swedish (like the Wasa) just made them bigger. A large Galleon is called a man-o-war and were indeed used as priceships. 12:21 The biggest difference between a galleon and a man-o-war is the third gundeck like with this one. They could also be used as lineships by the navy 13:13 You forget to say they were as low as possible to increase the change of cannonballs flying right over. This is a long list but it's still a good video. Tnx for making it

[@SC-xt8lz]

5:58 is from a game, there are no leesails (I think that's what they're called) or gaff sails because you need good visibility and would have to spend ages lowering and raising sails, and its a fast paced game at times so that wouldn't work.

[@maasbekooy901]

@@SC-xt8lz Fair enough

[@kevinvelado9907]

I'm quite certain Sloops more often than not had two masts for British classification. Now for the American colonies it's a one mast classification for what makes a sloop.

[@Ben-hz3hp]

@@kevinvelado9907 in the royal navy system (from 1775 onwards) every navy vessel was a sloop(-of-war) unless it was a rated full rigged ship (the smallest rate beeing a sixth rate: a frigate with 20 or more guns). In those times there were no official british corvettes, french corvettes would most often beeing called "sloop" by the royal navy.

[@keatonkitsune4064]

Barques as well right?

[@rickkinki4624]

Having played Sid Meier's Pirates! for hours on end, this video was very interesting!

[@timandshannon03]

Still play in on my NES!!!!!!!! Still a blast!!!!

[@matthewboyd3653]

Really enjoyed this video! Thanks for posting.

[@Rattyratbag]

Probably been said before but the modern ship was not a Frigate it was a Tiger Class Cruiser. C99 HMS Blake.

[@j.s.connolly8579]

Actually... "Brigantines" and "Barquentines" were ONLY Two Masted! Once you went into "Three Masted" then you get into Frigates and Merchantman ships like the French Merchantman that became Edward Teach/Blackbeard's Great Flag Ship "Queen Anne's Revenge"! Also "GALLEONS" were Spanish and English and later French and Portages... But were "Out of Date" for Pyrates by the early/mid-18th. Century as they were too slow and heavy and were ditched in favor of Frigates and Merchantman Ships which were more Modern and MUCH Faster but could ALSO be VERY Well/Heavily Armed! And "QUEEN ANNE'S REVENGE" was NOT A "GALLEON"! It was a FRENCH MERCHANTMAN SLAVER SHIP that was HEAVILY ARMED but LOW in DRAFT and Quite Fast! But it was NOT A "GALLEON"! As I said "GALLEONS" were Out Dated for Most Pyrates by the 18th. Century/1700's!

[@rezendeiiz.knight1084]

somesay its a concord renamed as QAR idk that is true

[@matthewwhite4564]

@@rezendeiiz.knight1084 yes, Queen Anne's revenge was a french slave ship named La Concord, Blackbeard modified it into a frigate

[@slyfer60]

Eh, your correct. But in all fairness it is an easy mistake to make. The QAR does have a passing resemblance to one. This was probably done by design. The Spanish and Italians also continued to refer to the large cargo and treasure ships as Galleons well into the 18th century. These ships do have similar profiles to the old galleons. I think one could easily get these confused.

[@wujek7616]

most stuff in this video is bullshit with no real sources

[@VestedUTuber]

Barquentines were 3 masted. What a Barquentine specifically refers to is a ship with three masts with only the fore-mast square rigged. There's also Brigs (2 masts, all square-rigged), Barques (3+ masts, all but the rear are square-rigged) and Jackass Barques (3-mast, foremast square rigged, mainmast hybrid, mizen fore-and-aft OR 4-mast, foremast and forward mainmast square rigged, rear mainmast and mizen fore-and-aft). Frigates and Merchantmen were full-rigged ships (3-mast, all square rigged OR 3+1-mast, all three primaries square rigged with a fore-and-aft Jiggermast).

[@rhondajones1313]

A good little video. From one that was in the US Navy, aboard the USS Davidson FF 1045. Now I build wooden model ships.

[@tapanmukherjee338]

Loved the documentary being a Seafarer myself. Excellent

[@jayg1438]

What a terrific topic! Thank you. KZbin does a poor job recommending your channel. I watch a boatload (pun intended) of history videos and only recently got a recommendation.

[@thedictationofallah]

the pirates port and gold and gunpowder are just the channels u need

[@iamjustaguy9777]

Brilliant video gonna be helpful in a pirate game im making. Gonna have to watch again with a note pad.

[@stevebrownrocks6376]

This is a GREAT video! Very informative, I’ll take a Frigate, thanks!

[@davidmcintyre8145]

It's no wonder that the brig was favoured so much the name comes from an old word for brigand(armed thief)and the ships were almost purpose designed for sea robbery and small ship combat. They also needed relatively small crews but could accommodate many more

[@nigelbrennan3816]

Brilliant ...Thank You !

[@windborne8795]

Your first example of a brigantine is actually a brig. Brigantines didn't have a full set if any square s on the main mast. Brigs and brigantines cannot have more nor less than two mast. 👍🏻 Nice upload.

[@edwoods5249]

I feel like this has something to do with Hawaii Five-oh; heavy construction equipment and other related topics of conversation 😉

[@flpirate4565]

Loved it.great video, thanks

[@mikewilshusen3115]

Good stories I never knew that there were so many different ships were used by pirates.

[@kasboldingful]

The brig will forever be my favorite! Fast and could still put up a fight 😁

[@norgeek]

Love running into Avery and the Fancy after finally playing through Uncharted 4 😄

[@MaxHussein]

- The pictures you showed of sloops were not sloops, a sloop has a mainsail and 1 foresail, any more foresails and it becomes a cutter. Also, sloops only have one mast. - Another correction-- 'Square rigged ships' should not be a category. A square rigged ship is any ship that has mostly box sails. Schooners and Brigantines can both be square rigged. - Also-- ships that mostly use box sails and OARS are not fast at all. -A BRIGANTINE IS NOT A BRIG!!

[@josephsheehan7459]

A fun topic, you need to do a little research on ship types, but it was entertaining. There are many different books that could help you. Read up and enjoy! Thank you for taking an interest in nautical history. I love it too!

[@RaidenKazehare]

Brigs and brigantines are different ships. Brigs have two masts a foremast and a mainmast and both are fully square rigged, while brigantines have a foremast and mainmast, but only the foremast is fully square rigged while the main mast is either fully fore-and-aft rigged or has a square rigged topsail. When a brigantine has a full fore-and-aft rigged mainmast they were normally called hermaphrodite brigs or brig-schooners

[@wntu4]

5:50 ...GORGEOUS

[@dalusgembalus]

great video for reference. thanks.

[@MaiaCoimbra]

Just love it, congrats and thanks

[@DGFishRfine1]

"It is that they were not bought and sold as pirate ships" brilliant!

[@robinsteeden7466]

So basically you just gave us a list of practically every major class of ship available in the Caribbean and said "pirates stole these and used them". However, your breakdown of the advantages and disadvantages of each was pretty good. But you missed two major advantages of slops and schooners - their sail arrangement allowed them to sail closer into the wind than square rigged ships could and their large sail area to hull size ratio made them faster in lighter breezes, allowing them to catch slower merchant ships and out sail pursuing naval vessels.

[@cpierce3277]

Shame it doesn’t cover some of the pirate vessels from other parts of the world . Piracy in the Med., the North Atlantic, the Horn of Africa, or SE Asian pirates .

[@LukeSkyDancer]

Pirate ship stories are the best and Love

[@CarlosRamos-jg8ti]

Love it thank you

[@nicibozz9819]

Now I have to imagine a crew of pirates in the golden age sailing a 21. century frigate

[@RudraDey-pb5hx]

Lol

[@dukeofwar1003]

Gaffs and Bermuda rigged ships, usually Schooners or smaller also had another advantage: they could fly really close hauled courses really well, meaning upwind, where larger, square-rigged ships couldn't go. This again, gave them an advantage of either attacking unexpectedly, or, even better, fleeing from opponents they can't take.

[@ernestocheguevara998]

now this is a beautiful channel

[@adam-shaggycraig470]

Great & educational & informative.

[@larsrons7937]

Nice video (with some flaws, some already mentioned) 11:07 Is not a 15th century man'o'war but 17th. And I can't see that the forecastle is "extremely tall", it's hardly taller than the deck behind.

[@nehukybis]

Most of the pictures shown during the "brigantine" segment are galleons, not brigantines. And most of the things said here about square rigged ships is just wrong. They weren't all slow cargo haulers. Frigates, Ships of the Line, Corvettes and Sloops-of-war were all square rigged ships and built for combat. Frigates and smaller square rigged ships were quite maneuverable. The info about the Fluyt missed the point. They were designed to minimize the Danish sound toll, but that's NOT why they had a shallow draft. Fluyts had a shallow draft because a deep draft vessel couldn't enter Dutch ports. The design feature that made them tax-evaders was a pronounced tumblehome that gave them a tiny deck compared to the broad hold. (i.e., they were "pear-shaped" when viewed from the stern).

[@joaqu7002]

They had to enter Amsterdam through the Zuiderzee, what is now the IJsselmeer.

[@themanformerlyknownascomme777]

Yes, it's some of the more nuanced things.

[@DarkDutch007]

The part about the only measuring the tiny upperdeck to evade Danish sound toll is a myth formed from a mistake. With one exception for the timber-ship that sailed to Norway, built from 1647 in the so-called new form, with a broader fore and aft than amidships. Fluyts designed for timber transport were built with a wasp waist and an extended hull fore and aft to avoid payments. Despite being common knowledge, Norwegian toll-officers were unable to do anything, as the skippers played by the rules of the 1647 treaty. This stated that the measurement of the width should be taken amidships. The Fluyt was designed to be a proper cargo vessel, it was build for maximum of space and crew efficiency. It was cheap to build, hold more cargo than other ships (great for bulk buying) and could sail with a smaller crew and therefore also cheaper overall to operate, with a shallow draft because of the shallow waters in the Netherlands. If you want to read about it, there is a PDF on it, but with youtube being youtube, links probably don't work so you have to search for it yourself: The_Flute_and_the_Sound_toll (most likely the first link and the pdf is in English)

[@davidsummerville351]

Great info. Thanks

[@XEPER888888888888888]

Thank you for telling me about pirate ships, Dr. Bashir.

[@irongeneral7861]

Love that intro!!!

[@murrayeaston2359]

If a sloop was good enough for 'Sea Wolf' Thomas Cochrane it'd be good enough for me.

[@MGB-learning]

Great video!

[@andrewbaillie6291]

Enjoyed your pirate ship description list , but it left out Chinese Junks vessels. I read once that they were popular as pirate ships for their close hauled sailing abilities.

[@K.I.T.T.80]

This is very interesting!!!

[@Jerfish1]

“Come to Tortuga’s Pirate Emporium, we have all of your ship needs”. What, it wasn’t like that?

[@besserwizard]

„Not designed as fighting vessels“ they said. Showing the „Santisima Trinidad“ in the background. The largest warship of the age of sail, sunk at Trafalgar 1805. With a crew of over a thousand men and up to (I think) 120 guns.

[@ethanjustice8890]

Not sunk, captured. The British towed her back to port and scuttled her after

[@besserwizard]

@@ethanjustice8890 no, they wanted to tow her back to port, but she sank in a storm a day after the battle due to the damages she recieved during the battle. I didn't bother to type out that small difference for reasons of simplicity.

[@besserwizard]

So yes, she was captured by the British, you're right. But no, she wasn't scuttled.

[@professionalvagabond1925]

Excellent channel!

[@Mike-ht6rf]

I loved this video.

[@drpepper3838]

Funfact: one of the most important reasons for the Dutch to dominate in trade was the invention of the windmill saw, this way we could saw timber automatically instead of by hand. 30 times faster in fact. We could build ships faster than anyone else on the planet and for only half the cost.

[@AdmiralMattsoy760]

I also wanted to know about the 1st rate ships but it's okay. The galleon truly is my favorite. Really love this channel. Keep it up!!

[@pinngg6907]

no pirate ever have a first rate ship. so it's not mentioned

[@samuelkovac1008]

@@pinngg6907 No pirate ever had galleon. Queen Anne's revenge was frigate.

[@AdmiralMattsoy760]

Samuel Kováč galleons were used by naval officers to fight against pirates. I truly agree that the Queen Anne's Revenge is a frigate, not a galleon. But despite that, galleons still are my favorite. Can't wait to ride Galeon Andalucia.

[@sskuk1095]

Wonderful presentation! Could you also explain what a clipper is and why they weren't developed sooner?

[@richardpatterson6192]

A clipper was a very large cargo ship mostly taking cargo from North America, both oceans, to Asia. . They could be a little slower for their size because the Golden Age Of Piracy (1700's to about 1730)was basically gone because of the combination of efforts by the English and American navies who had nothing to do between WARS.The Clippers were very fast because they were very long in the waterline. Schooners were smaller but length for length were faster and mostly used for the Canadian and American coastlines.

[@fandangofandango2022]

Great Doco.

[@clintstinkeye5607]

Cool trivia. 👍

[@sneakysquirrl708]

Lovely video 👏👍

[@lefthook4878]

All of these ships are beautiful

[@Hidde349]

The flyinh dutchmen: a dutch ship. You wouldn't suspect it.

[@alanluscombe8a553]

What a different world it was hundreds of years ago, crazy to think about

[@jpm8782]

Very good !

[@Froststrike]

Question, what is the name of the music that you used for the second half of the intro. The part where all the different clips of vehicles? I’m a music collector, so yeah....

[@OldVideoPutz]

Brigs & brigantines were not the same. Brigs were square rigged on both masts, while brigantines were only square rigged on the foremast.

[@BohemianBeatster]

Groovy video

[@vikingshaman3079]

The golden age of piracy was during the 17th and 18th century, not the 16th and 17th. Basically ran from 1650 to 1730, possible until 1735.

[@oniemployee3437]

Thats likely what he ment anyway, but forgot that "th century" follows the rule of " hundreds - 1". 17th century = 1600's.

[@oldsilverdrew2471]

More accurately 1715 to 1725. The so-called 'golden age' of piracy.

[@oniemployee3437]

@@oldsilverdrew2471 1650 - 1730, according to wikipedia. OP is correct.

[@gamerman782]

Could be that he isn't from a country that uses 17th century for the 1600s

[@MinorLG]

The Tri mast Lugger was a shallow draft square rig. It was smaller, could even reach some headwaters, and was built for speed, as their original job was hauling fresh seafood inland. Later in life, they were repurposed by privateers, and harbor services, as they were small enough, nimble enough, and fast enough, that they could catch almost any ship.

[@erikthepirate8068]

Awesome! I love Pirate Ships!

[@spikespa5208]

All the best stories have pirates in 'em. .......THG.

[@erikthepirate8068]

@@spikespa5208 You're Welcome!

[@stevemaenhout9996]

The whydah galley was also one the most formidable ships ever captured by pirates

[@dwarvenmoray7019]

Galleons were never used by pirates. Traditional galleons stopped being built around the 1550's, & the Spanish treasure ships were way too large to be effectively used by any pirate crew.

[@baperacks-com6801]

With what wood sealer?

[@wolf310ii]

1550 was more like the start of building galleons, not the end. Galleons were build and used till the 18th century. Also ever heard of the Golden Hind? The Galleon used by Francis Drake to pirating spanish ships?

[@chuckw1113]

Um, the photo of the 20th century frigate was actually of either HMS Tiger or HMS Blake, the two Tiger class CRUISERS converted to carry helicopters. They were part of the Tiger class of three vessels built as light cruisers in the early 1950s. Frigates of that time, and into the late 1960s, we’re usually about half the size of these cruisers.

[@teeheeteeheeish]

Sloops can beat against wind very effectively. This was a huge advantage against larger square-rigged merchant vessels who were mostly confined to sailing downwind.

[@amirbiscevic8944]

Very interesting

[@thelukesternater]

I like ya channel and will thusly subscribe!

[@kicker599]

You've missed the galley's and xebecs that the Barbary corsairs used. Very formidable ships