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The 5 worst jobs on a pirate ship.
Modern sources:
Pirates in their own words - E.T Fox
Piratical Schemes and Contracts - E.T Fox
Seamanship in the Age of Sail - John Harland
The Misfortunes of Alonso Ramírez - Fabio López-Lázaro
The Pirate Wars - Peter Earle
benersonlittle.com/2023/01/23...
Period sources:
A General History of the Pyrates - Cpt. Charles Johnson
A new account of Guinea - William Snelgrave
A relation of the Great Sufferings - Henry Pittman
An universal dictionary of the Maritime - William Falconer
Dictionaire de marine contenant - Nicolas Aubin
Les us et Coutumes de la Mer - Jean Lucas
The Sea-mans Grammar - John Smith
The Sea-man's Vade-Mecum - William Mountain
Music by jsayles.com
Timestamps:
0:00 Topmen
2:06 Slave
6:30 Forced man
10:32 Swabber
12:52 Honorable mentions
14:33 Sponsor
15:28 Cabin boy
#pirates #history #meleeweapon #melee #meleecombat

[@thearmoredgoat2469]

Greatest sponsorship ever

[@booger_8194]

Lmao im so dead 😂😂Lol I was wondering when the ad would start 😂

[@bean_man_4224]

My child being pickled is a risk I'm willing to take for a shiny new wig!

[@swayback7375]

Spoken like a true parent! I’d definitely swap my biggest for a shiny new wig for the wife 😮 I’d go with a shiny neon pink one… not sure what role play wed get into with pink

[@BarondePencier]

>he's a janitor on a pirate ship >he doesn't do it for free

[@Alex-cw3rz]

19:33 that is genuinely horrifying, Poor Richard Pye apparently when they came to sew him up in the hammock, he was as many colours as the rainbow, his flesh was the consistency of jelly and his head had swollen to twice it's size. What goes through someone's mind to do such a thing, and for the crew to watch idly and some even participate I will never know.

[@luciaalegria752]

I read that in The Republic of Pirates! So, so awful... complete torture, that poor boy. Apparently, Jeane trod up and down over the boy's body and ordered the crew to do so as well, but they refused.

[@captainjameshook90]

Your captain John commercial made me crack up

[@michaelsmith8028]

Imagine being a slave thinking the pirates are going to save you. Only to end up as a topman.

[@mutiny_on_the_bounty]

Better than the bottom man😂

[@CosplayZine]

One myth i feel that circulates is that pirates lived at sea. Most pirates who had sloops or lesser ships did not have the equipment nor ability to maintain this. I mean at times they may have spent weeks at sea. But if the pirates were at all successful this means they would spend their money as fast as it came in. No point buying from a merchant that you would have robbed anyway. A big score meant you wouldnt need to plunder or risk capture either. No man can or wants to live on salted beef and crackers alone. Instead they'd likely come ashore and stay in an inn in a pirate friendly location. (Most any place would do fine) At times one might even force their residency on a married couple or a farm owner. Also any sea voyage must be properly planned for to ensure success. The identity of the captain or ship wouldn't always have been known by the ones being robbed so it was fairly easy to hide your piracy. The only clue would be from rumors that may be spoke about from anyone from escaped slaves, inn keepers, scorn ex partners, prostitutes, forced men or on the off chance rescued marrooners but rare anyone would give information for fear of retaliation. After all, loose lips sink ships..

[@GoldandGunpowder]

South Sea pirates and post-Nassau pirates pretty much lived at sea since they didn't have any permanent bases, they primarily stole food, clothes, repair materials and other necessities for their survival

[@pharaohsmagician8329]

Great comment, that's a part of it haven't really considered before. When you steal money, or work long hours for it, after a while you want to spend it right?? The boat life is just a means to an end not the end itself. Thats why they say crime doesnt pay. The Alestorm song says "Piracy is a crime and crime doesn't pay, we all go home poor at the end of the day!" The real succesful pirates were called Royal Navy Commanders not pirates hahaharrr

[@nikevisor54]

Morning coffee + G&G is pure bliss

[@draculastraphouse7863]

I'm eating stale ass chips that were left in the break room at work while watching this 🤡

[@JCOwens-zq6fd]

At 42yr old, 6ft 1in & 190lbs i am still quite fit & capable but sailing even a smaller vessel in a storm is rough. Climbing up that high in those winds etc would be harrowing for sure.

[@Alex-cw3rz]

Well yeah being tall and older makes it harder, as explained in the video.

[@ClickClack_Bam]

Your grip can get stronger as you age from working your whole life. Especially if you have a job where your grip comes into play.

[@bw7754]

Dayman but why not the night man? Or the troll with the toll?

[@jamesbuchanan3145]

Ive seen John King's leg bone and shoe at a museum exhibition, and the gold found at the wreck.

[@luciaalegria752]

Woah, which museum did you go to?

[@richardpchaseii5084]

As a semi-retired Idler(Deck Officer), whose family has a long tradition on the New England waterfront, let me remind you that a great many of my ancestors started as Cabin Boys and ended up as Captains, on New Bedford whalers. A lot easier and lucrative than being a land-lubber, farm-hand, in those days! Also, don't forget: there were a lot of old Foretopmen, and bold Foretopmen; but not many old, bold Foretopmen!

[@VivaSepulchre]

You sound rich

[@chrismacphee664]

Could you please provide a link to your sponsor? 😀

[@GoldandGunpowder]

sadly he doesn't use digital services due to him living in the 1700s, you'll have to go down and visit him physically

[@swayback7375]

@@GoldandGunpowderpatience… I’ll be there soon enough! I’m still tryin to smoke a few bowls and poke a few holes before I head out

[@unknowntrooper_2791]

Always nice to see these ordinary life videos. Cheers !🏴‍☠️

[@clayhackney3514]

Amazing how modern jannies just do it for free...

[@BlueJayWaters]

Considering my time in the Navy was easy being a Hospital Corpsman, I imagine it would have been the same during the piracy age. I would have been a dayman, which to this day a graduate of Corpschool if under E-4 is addressed as a Hospitalman Recruit, Hospitalman Apprentice, and Hospitalman respectively, and so is not considered a seaman or a sea-based rate (job). And I also am a musician, so I would have spent my time just playing on the top deck, which is ironic because several times I had played guitar for my units during downtime lol. A pirates life would have been very good to me 😅

[@frogman-ns7yb]

Captain golden gunpowder I would even clean the bilge if it meant I was a part of your ship

[@Xxsnipedawg72xX]

Dayman, fighter of the night man

[@lonelystrategos]

Champion of the sun!

[@Horologist-zu5vq]

The comment i was looking for hehe.

[@Lusath]

Great video once again, I certainly didn't know about the weekly liar system, or the term "dayman" (my respects to the topmen, I get uneasy standing on a balcony on the first floor) Unrelated to this video, I was just done watching your video on surgeons, and I was wondering if a video dedicated to the different types of prosthetics pirates used would be any good? So far I've heard you mention peg legs and glass eyes, and if that's all there is then I guess there wouldn't be much to talk about (let alone make that subject into a 15+ minutes video), but I've always wondered if some of them were crafty enough to come up with something that was more helpful in battle than a fake hand, or if getting your limb replaced at all was less common than media makes it to be (I imagine that some prosthetics were harder to afford/come by than others), also maybe to clear out some misconceptions?

[@KenR1800]

I've met Mr. King... the leg bone mentioned is on display at the Whydah Museum on Cape Cod.

[@Divayth_Fyr666]

We were all seamen at one point

[@conorvaughan9870]

lmaooo the sponsor 😂😂😂

[@googleuser9009]

Great pirate related history that's as entertaining and informative.

[@rickmills4801]

Somebody once told me that the best job aboard a galley was that of Quartermaster, the one responsible for provisioning the ship... I dunno how great THAT would be, stowing over a hot slave all day!

[@paulsteele8614]

Great video

[@andreykuzmin4317]

The ad was AMAZING. I'd sell my child for a (Spanish) dollar!

[@popeyethepirate5473]

Speaking of learning the ropes, do you have a video about them.

[@risingSisyphus]

The janny reference

[@Bangcat]

there's little in the factual numbers to dictate who were spared from hanging for piracy, much less richly rewarded. There are cases where much like USA's war on drugs that piracy as a crime, even if not through actual violence, was committed to life in a prison or more often cost effectively murdered via hanging. But if others were given up, and actually b ore enough fruit, and it could be publicized just how grand they were in turning the tide to encourage othes to do the same, of course some were rewarded. But also too lets not forget about how some also would go blatantly missing from the public eye like much others proclaimed to have won the lottery. And even at times where royals were starting war to refill running dry treasuries. Enough to make you wonder how they could afford these rich rewards and keep so rich themselves even at those times a nation seemed particularly broke.

[@Bangcat]

Not all crews were made up with slaves, and the fact of the matter was many ships that were freed up were slave ships. Many crews were liberators made up of those who got raw deal on land. Everyone's going to pick their opinions and have their own spins on things, but thats because there's some in every crowd, and many will research and bring forth much of what they find different, but also what they want to find. This is what partly makes it so quite hard to keep history books accurate. P.S. it was claimed by one man that Blackbeard had a crew of freed slaves, which would indeed appear to be true. But then by research with the claim of only a few that he then at the end turned them in to sell them off. If so many, in fact nearly a huge bulk of the crew were said slaves, much of what was left in the darker times.... How did he manage to handle them all with only a couple men to have them in chains, walked, off, and so forth? One it does't make much logical sense given the human condition. Two, the only man who claims to have the receipt from this affair shows it to absolutely no one for close examination in the slightest. Sure you had pirates that were slavers, and so too was the many Navy's that had them by policy in unified and demanded practice. Pirate crews, or even various small fleets were permitted to make their choices per ship, and even the Captain under scrutiny and an eye in part kept upon by one chosen to do so by the crew. It could even be argued today that people forced to work for a wage that can't hope to even sustain a minimalist lifestyle without times of losing what they've honestly earned for themselves, or going hungry, is slavery... Guess slavery is still very much around, and in fact it is. It simply hides behind an increasing amount of currency types.

[@jaredgreen2363]

Do one on cabin boys?

[@yourmomsass3365]

I should be working right now but how else would I know the 5 worst jobs on a pirate ship?

[@swayback7375]

Can you list the 5 worst jobs at your work

[@moderatethinker9223]

The wickedness of mankind. Im afraid it's not dead enough and just that times are so easy right now and people are afraid of each other too much to do that kind of thing now. I feel like their chipping away the dam these days though.

[@chaoctic7278]

Topman? Jesus Christ what about the bottom man

[@pharaohsmagician8329]

Whats the craziest thing that happens on those boats??

[@theromanorder]

Comment for the algorithm

[@valkaerie8715]

So pirate janitors do it for free, you say?

[@weepingwell]

ah to be a pirate. a freshly polished deck with salty old seamen running everywhere. Crossing swords with the hardest men alive. Taking your opponents booty by force. Catching crabs in Barbados. Actually nvm it sounds kinda ghey now that I said it.

[@mrrorschach837]

"Seamen" hehehehehe

[@SonofTiamat]

Another great video

[@jillatherton4660]

👍

[@hellgato777]

💀 ⚔

[@phineascampbell3103]

I'm watching this because I want to know what they yarrr

[@phineascampbell3103]

I did, you can't stop me, and I'd do it again, I'll tell all the bad puns...

[@TheTb2364]

2137 video length 🇻🇦

[@Tadicuslegion78]

Cook would also suck because you're trying to make something edible out of a pile of rancid garbage

[@RachDarastric2]

50% of the time yes. But the other 50%, the crew have managed to get a fresh source. And unlike people you cook for these days they actually enjoy it when you get creative.

[@matthewwyman1581]

It wasn’t that bad if you were a buccaneer and had access to fresh food

[@Alex-cw3rz]

You get to choose the best cut.

[@whyzzzard]

Ye olde crap toddy, eh?

[@Bangcat]

Notice that even with the forced men, not all weapons were taken away that was thought to be should. Cuz many things on a ship can be weaponized. to bad your governments dont seem to keep as much logic. And some how with the NSA and the likes, we don't hear much about how it's stopped much of this and that as should have to report upon regularly in an age of more information. For one it would be ideal press. If it's that easy to weaponize on a ship, and it can be done even in prison, do you really think you can stop all of average joes you do wrong enough? Leaders are often civil servants for a reason. They should be held to such but people are often held only as liable they dont have the money to buy their way out of. Much of the conflicts of slavery often aren't of merely race, but various forms of the haves and have nots. Who can do the currently desired thing or not, even if the craft they do have is extremely valuable. And meanwhile some of the leaders who do as they do with only so much for the sakes of the dollar, but to create something or maintain something worth while, it's easy to find them fault for all as well, and easier still. Because they're not the ones with said ill gotten coin, the other things desired they're needed for other than to keep the thing going, especially as some are just wanting a change in life style and pin the reasonings upon them. The more things change, the more things stay the same. Just as well, there were some pirates who were plenty better than others, and a victim of their own showmanship. The terrible Black Beard also had a near deathless record until his final battle. But even while he was suffering from a painful and degenerating disease treated in a form all as painful that was only further killing him slowly, he was a showman who knew how to pitch the view. And thats why we remember him and his gimmick today to be one of the most famous, despite his shorter term in the business than many others.

[@commiessuckballs2287]

"I love the gloryhole barrel, I'm going to use it every day! .."Well, every day but Thursdays. " "Why Thursdays?" .."Because Thursdays are YOUR day in the barrel!"