Life Aboard a Pirate Ship

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In the case of sailors and pirates in the 18th century, it's quite hard for us to imagine what life was like aboard one of their ships. It is just so different from our modern experience. We always hear about the ships they plundered, the men and women they mistreated, and their ultimate, often grisly fates - but what did they do inbetween? Just how was the life, aboard a pirate ship?
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Sources:
Pirates in Their Own Words - E.T Fox
The Sea Rover's Practice - Benerson Little
Pirate(Warrior) - Angus Konstam
The Pirate Hunter - Richard Zacks
A Pirate of Exquisite Mind - Diana & Michael Preston
The Great Days of Piracy - George Woodbury
#pirates #history #ships

[@GoldandGunpowder]

My other videos about a pirate's daily life: Pirate food playlist: kzbin.info/aero/PLQSjRW7kXy7zULKzQQ7LuSJCEeIlzR1EC Pirate music: kzbin.info/www/bejne/iX3IfYasqLhsaNU

[@Whiteboykun]

>pinning your OWN FUCKING COMMENT SCRUB LORD HOURS

[@JohnSmith-nh2te]

My favorite type of history is daily life history; it really makes you feel like you’re there.

[@jh-ij4by]

same

[@SnackPack913]

Agreed. Too often we focus on major events rather than just the day to day struggles people went through. Makes things more relatable in some sense

[@deezthegypsy]

You are there my friend, you are there 😌

[@regentvoo]

I know right. I hate half of history are on kings and leaders. Meh god, they are mostly inbred of course they are crazy. I want to know more about the common ppl

[@Rickt2445]

I wholeheartedly agree.

[@ravenb3048]

Ah yes, the bit of history that people like to overlook the most and probably one of the most important parts, as well; everyday life.

[@_p3t3r_34]

Master&Commander but on board a pirate ship seems like a good idea for a movie, methinks.

[@alexlascu2136]

It's called pirates of the Caribbean

[@Grewyn7]

​@@alexlascu2136 Priates of the Caribbean is a fantasy, not a supremely historically accurate dramatic action film like Master and Commander.

[@funnelvortex7722]

Boring? Nah, this is fascinating. When studying history we don't talk much about the "normal" everyday folk who actually did the hard work to build history and how they lived in it, we always just hear about the snotty spoiled rich kids who bossed and bullied them around. Hearing about how many of these pirates and sailors were and behaved like normal folk does a lot to make history feel more alive and relatable, rather than the cold distant circlejerking about one person.

[@mageillus]

I’d either be spending my time drawing illustrations of the sea, ship, and crew, or reading books

[@ostrowulf]

Judging from what I did when sitting around in the field in the army, I would read, play cards, debate topics, and drink.

[@TinCupChalice40]

If you’re a sailor which I’ve been sailing since I was nine years old, I’m now 60 my last boat was a Catalina 36. It doesn’t surprise you sailing back then wasn’t much different than sailing today. If you’ve been on long voyages, you’ve moved the life of a pirate on board lots of chores lots of cleaning. Very little sleep so you can keep watch. Yes, I don’t think times have changed much.

[@TinCupChalice40]

moved= lived

[@user-wu1rw5lt8y]

I’ve been an artist since I was a kid so I’d like to imagine if I was able to join a crew I’d spend my past time giving tattoos (i’m familiar with how they used to give tattoos, it’s actually one of my favorite videos) or coating the ship in a new layer of paint

[@jonathangodin4775]

I fishing, reading, watching live folk music, and drinking with my palls are pretty much what i already do to kill time. A pirate ship sounds like a little dirty haven for me. I have prett bad gallows humour from working dangerous labor jobs

[@rsadeep8939]

The fact that you are so eloquently able to make the daily life, the 'boring' life of buccaneer seamen hundreds of years ago sound so fascinating is absolutely why your content is S tier in my opinion.👌 A feather in your tricorn I'd say 😂

[@emilyrobbins6315]

I’m so excited to see more videos about daily life aboard a pirate ship! I’m so curious about this topic! One thing I want to know is how much time was typically spent pillaging vs lying around and living off the land.

[@frequentblondie]

Oh?

[@ged1798]

Awesome ambience at the start and great video throughout! Im very interested in the small details and the ‘boring’ parts of pirate life

[@tomriddle5564]

Much like Combat. Hours of Crushing Boredom punctuated with Moments of terror and excitement.

[@Puppy_Puppington]

Mock trial where one person plays a judge and the other, the victim 😂😂 so accurate... Wait, that’s how it goes in real trials!

[@TacoMyrick]

Count Dracula called...he wants his voice back.

[@unknowntrooper_2791]

A very big topic but very interesting. Looking forward to this. 🏴‍☠

[@lukef5370]

Thank you for continuing to make these videos. I've always been extremely fascinated by pirates . ☠️

[@bookofroger]

Ima be honest, I’d probably be lazying around since there’s little work to do anyways.

[@suzerainty4192]

Thanks for making this video! I love learning about pirates and daily life is one of my favorite history topics

[@nikevisor54]

Settling in with a snack for this one. Appreciate your content, man

[@TheAnimalLoverYT]

Love ur videos. I’ve always loved pirates and I always will.

[@tshelby1569]

So glad I found your channel man 🎉

[@ericroberts7350]

I would Like to say that I enjoy your research about pirates, me being from the Bahamas, Pirates are a huge part of our history there.

[@thedictationofallah]

Congrats on 13k! I can call myself an og now!

[@gwoody4003]

I have been in the open seas in the Caribbean and around Central America... and although it may be hot and humid on land, it's very breezy and pleasant out on the water. We would be on shore and sweating bullets then wearing long sleeves out at sea. Though I never experienced doldrums cus the ships had motors, of course. I never roasted in the sun in a dead calm sea. 😂

[@Barakon]

If possible, sketching in a journal or some other sort of paper; I like to draw & sing.

[@thecreweofthefancy]

Great video as always! I really want to learn more games from the time period to kill time accurately. Some of the rules for dice and cards are unnecessarily complicated. I can spend days analyzing political and economic intrigue from the era, but the moment I start reading the rules for games my brain blanks out. Haha

[@GoldandGunpowder]

17th century billiard might be the simplest, it was played in Port Royal among other places. Instead of poles you used clubs so it was kinda like minigolf. Billiard tables were also placed outside in backyards, instead of indoors

[@thecreweofthefancy]

@@GoldandGunpowder thank you, I found pictures. May make it a unit build project for one of the sites we work with.

[@NatesPirateLife]

Love the daily life! A a deeper dive into the various activities would be super cool. Would also love to see a video about the Whydah Galley and Black Sam Bellamy!

[@HighWireDiver]

I love this channel so much.

[@artinthefamily9549]

I've been to the Whydah Pirate Museum on Cape Cod. It was extremely interesting seeing how the pirates lived & viewing the items from the ship.

[@catherineaiello7136]

Very good video. Thanks.

[@platypus1216]

Really interesting video!

[@SvengelskaBlondie]

8:15 they still do this in the navy, especially on vessels like subs that have very limited space.

[@jasondohrman7098]

Agian thanks for another great one

[@CaymanIslandsCatWalks]

How do u make a pirate angry? You take the p away

[@RIPJoeRogan69]

hahahaha

[@Grimpy970]

Youd find me reading, drawing or cleaning. If the maintenance was important to the ship's health, I'd be quite anxious about any slack in that direction! Probably end up cleaning decks, cannons or publicly available small-arms to ingratiate myself to the 'officers'. Probably wouldn't get me any brown-nose points regardless.. 😅 Maybe if I make myself indispensable as 'that one maintenence guy', I'll get to avoid the absolute terror of close combat. This is likely just wishful thinking. Consider me a dead man in this situation! I don't have the heart for this line of work lol

[@headsnap2710]

i just can't imagine the smell

[@visionplant]

I love this daily life stuff so much and defs looking forward to the videos about games and food

[@GoldandGunpowder]

the food videos are already out(its a 1hr playlist: kzbin.info/aero/PLQSjRW7kXy7zULKzQQ7LuSJCEeIlzR1EC)

[@bobhebblewhite1685]

you speak with the right accent to do the commentary on this subject.

[@Captain_Cinnamon]

I do not agree with the initial statement and, BUT I can see where it comes from. If you have a life where you are forced to stay on the open sea - then it becomes a prison. But if you use it as a means of transport and go wherever you like ... then it is a means of freedom. So it really depends on how do you use a ship. I am designing my own pirate knife ;D and I will be having a prototype made.

[@Barakon]

Couldn’t bathing in salt water be an option? A shower like compartment with a bucket that could be lowered to grab salt water could be used.

[@jamesrussell5196]

Maybe if they weren’t so drunk they’d figure that out

[@2puffs770]

So, I just paused the video for a moment, pondering the thought "how many of those 30 pirate men were sacrificed to make room for all the bounty they looted"? That'd be less men to have to split amongst, I can see it now......"Bye guys, only got room for half of ya"!

[@Misiulo]

Arrr! More Pirate videos! ;>

[@sapeurmaboul4046]

5 : 39 again, you confirm some criteria i have on Edward Low.

[@billbright1755]

Between the scurvy and the lice they also had to deal with sexually transmitted diseases and a plethora other communicable diseases. Various fevers due to tropical infections and insect bites.

[@wolfmauler]

Quite an easy life compared to the Navy or the dreaded Merchant service. On the big ships, such as those operated by Roberts, with a crew of 200+, you had plenty of free time 😉

[@waynemcauliffe2362]

Thanks mate

[@BubbleBuddy9]

I would love a video dedicated to the bilge.

[@thebigsandvich6924]

How did the daily life differ between officers and crew, I know that mixing between officers and men was discouraged on warships/merchants but with pirates’ (buccaneers especially) officers and captain sharing conditions would this result in more mixing?

[@GoldandGunpowder]

it varied a lot from crew to crew depending on their origins, if the captain owned the ship he'd atleast afford his own cabin and a few private luxuries. Richard Taylor was also indicated by an eyewitness to eat his own separate food, as it was said by the witness that he occasionally went out of his cabin to eat with the men from the common pot. Other pirate companies shared conditions equally, including rations, quarters, etc

[@f5tornado831]

Did they make model ships or ships in a bottle very often?

[@77chance]

I would be drinking, eating, and smoking. Pirate life doesn't sound too bad besides the threat of death at sea

[@sheepinwolfsk1n]

This may be sort of random but what font do you use for your quotes/thumbnails/text? I quite enjoy it and would like to use it in my novel. (that is, if it's not copyrighted, because unlike the pirates I write about I do not have a seafaring vessel worthy enough to evade the lawmen in.)

[@GoldandGunpowder]

freebooter from google fonts

[@sheepinwolfsk1n]

@@GoldandGunpowder much obliged, mate. will be using for all my debauchery and turpitude.

[@seanbutnotasheeple2090]

Crazy life

[@stub2022]

Buggery on the high seas.

[@albundy7623]

My biggest concern would be the butt pirates 🏴‍☠️

[@Frenchylikeshikes]

I visualize a lot of fleas, rats, and pretty nasty living quarters.

[@cherub3624]

Good video. Name of the background music?

[@GoldandGunpowder]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/kIjbnaqCjqh1qac

[@meowtahere]

I'd prolly just get hammered to pass the time 🤷‍♂️

[@lancemartin6782]

I am assuming the crew built up a resistance to the germs being exposed to the unsanitary conditions

[@spongebakesquarepansgaming]

i have a video idea why does captain Morgan look like he does on the rum

[@creepercthulhu591]

GoldandGunpowder have you read Two Years before the Mast?

[@SongJLikes]

6:49 cAnCeL cUlTuRe ! ! !

[@thiccredgyal3404]

If I was on the ship, I would be getting lit from the liquor 🥃.

[@jaxxonjinx6763]

Pirates are surrounded by water, but all of them had bad hygiene. 😂🤣

[@finnicvoice4974]

What I would've done to kill time? Id' get drunk as fuck and talk about my life with them pirates. Then I would do some physical labor with no stress in the world about taxes or social media or other things society would expect from me today.

[@Whoopu2]

Good to know sailors making use of bizarre rituals around crossing the equator is nothing new

[@piraticvs]

I’d probably be one of the musicians

[@howwwyyy29]

No Aircon!- I don't believe it

[@b_rob3318]

I would’ve fished…. A lot.

[@midwest1389]

Ahhh yes scurvy

[@JVJ_2000]

Day 4 of asking for a Henry Jennings video. 😢 Still holding out hope.

[@GoldandGunpowder]

if you pay me 100$ I'll make and publish it a week after the payment

[@JVJ_2000]

But I’m broke 😢, I found no success in my days of Piracy. My crew plotted a mutiny against me and deposed me as captain.

[@Captain_Cinnamon]

​@@JVJ_2000then you were a poor Captain

[@JVJ_2000]

@@Captain_Cinnamon hence why I want the Henry Jennings video. So I can learn to be a proper one.

[@eddiekulp1241]

We have pirates now there called politicians

[@MrJedimedic]

Robin Williams as a pirate in the thumbnail….

[@lancemartin6782]

Dumb question: dental care and vision care on a ship ? I am guessing the answer

[@quentincollins1825]

cf. Sodomy and the Pirate Tradition, by B.R. Burg

[@cactusman7345]

Bet it was a arrrd life.

[@Puppy_Puppington]

If the alcohol was not rationed and freely available, then how did it last more than a day??😂 & how did they not all fight all the time over who drank it all or most of it or hogged it matey?

[@bratis99]

nice push dude, big suggestion stop the bs push... cheers!

[@swamp9136]

Smoke exotic za

[@billbright1755]

Dental maladies left untreated oft lead to abscesses that could cause great damage. Treatment was limited to pulling teeth with any convenient tools at hand. Personal hygiene was not existent other than soaking in salt water and imbibing rum.

[@jettrink7510]

I'd be watching Jane Fonda videos...

[@M1647KS]

wish I lived back in the 1700 hundreds, trust me, I would be one of the most powerful pirates ever, I would have people in Britain's naval navy and on warships feeding me information on what is the next move of the navy and I would adjust as such, also I would a ship just like the USS Pennsylvania of 1816, a crew of 2,000 strong men, my name would be Captain Edward "The leader" Edison

[@GoldandGunpowder]

wew

[@spirospagiatis4731]

Here's my pirate meme (only Benny Hill fans will understand it) : Anne Bonny's marriage with Calico Jack would be like : Anne Bonny : You've got the brains of an idiot!!!!!😡 Calico Jack : Do you want them back!!!???😡

[@dfailsthemost]

I'd make an awful pirate.

[@unitedaerialsystems]

A more clear narrator will be useful.

[@100forks]

What did the average pirate do with all the loot he accumulated? Did he ever save some for retirement? Did they ever retire?

[@GoldandGunpowder]

Most spent it as soon as they arrived in port on rum and women, some retired as merchants, landowners, etc

[@100forks]

@@GoldandGunpowder Thanks

[@Jnow796]

I swear I'm not trying to push any agenda. Well, with this in mind, I do have questions. Is there any documentation regarding homosexuality among pirates or sailors? Like, a thin veiled secret or something? Was it taboo as in the rest of the world in that time?

[@GoldandGunpowder]

it was very taboo and there's no evidence of homosexuality being more or less prevalent than sailors or pirates. only incident we have of homosexuality being spoken of amongst pirates was when a pirate was confined by his associates on charges of homosexuality, meaning that a pirate could face penalties from his mates if he was one

[@ryanosborn3252]

😢Love god and love all people. Trust, hope and do good in god. 😂Believe in the gospel Jesus Christ for Jesus Christ shed his blood and died for the sins of the world and he was buried and rose again from the dead three days later. For Jesus Christ God almighty and the flesh and if you believe in the gospel you are spiritually reborn into the family of God.

[@brianskinner5711]

I wonder about the notion of keeping weapons loaded. The powder would become damp and useless in short order.

[@GoldandGunpowder]

they plugged the muzzles and covered or waxed the locks, see the wreck of the Whydah for example

[@briansmith-bo1ul]

Glad I didn't live back then.