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

[@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.

[@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

[@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

[@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.

[@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

[@ExAnimoPortugal]

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

[@HildegardActual]

Ah. Thank you Jack.

[@Slime6r]

“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..”

[@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..

[@221b-l3t]

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

[@221b-l3t]

@@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.

[@xeric1953]

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

[@xneomizo]

was about to comment the same😂

[@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

[@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.

[@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

[@KazehareRaiden]

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

[@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.

[@spzm3x]

Great Video guys! Always great content.

[@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.

[@AtomicSoul29]

What other dutchship types were faster that are similar to it?

[@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

[@wiseone1013]

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

[@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!

[@raceregos]

Amazing info, thank you.

[@kisi3l262]

1.Blackbeard's ship was a frigate. 2.The fluyt was built that way to be able to go through rivers.

[@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.

[@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.

[@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"?

[@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.

[@apocalypsemeow201]

Sitting here studying for DnD stuff, confused why I recognize the voice. Didn't take long to connect the dots. Love your work!

[@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.

[@nikofloof6731]

​@tomastobonjaramillo1092 gold and gunpowder is pretty great tho

[@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.

[@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!!!!

[@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.

[@Intravenous14]

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

[@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.

[@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!

[@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?

[@dutchafrikaner1204]

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.

[@flpirate4565]

Loved it.great video, thanks

[@Max.44]

Meanwhile the Jackdaw annihilates fleets of frigates with mortars alone.

[@kasboldingful]

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

[@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

[@ernestocheguevara998]

now this is a beautiful channel

[@CarlosRamos-jg8ti]

Love it thank you

[@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

[@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).

[@iamjustaguy9777]

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

[@rogersurf4149]

The ship at 5:13 is a Brig! The narrator mixes a Brig and a Brigantine several times. A Brig has square sails on two masts, a Brigantine has square sails on the fore mast and fore and aft sails on the rear mast. Both of which have only two masts,

[@tymysh0069]

This is what the History channel SHOULD be like..

[@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

[@sneakysquirrl708]

Lovely video 👏👍

[@nicibozz9819]

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

[@RudraDey004]

Lol

[@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

[@Rattyratbag]

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

[@professionalvagabond1925]

Excellent channel!

[@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.

[@MGB-learning]

Great video!

[@briangreen1781]

I miss the old NES game "Pirates". Great video btw.

[@jayg1438]

If that is a reference to Sid Meier's Pirates!? Great game, and it was made available for the PC before even the NES was around. It was made for the Commodore 64, Windows and the old Apple 2x computers in the 1980s. I remember booting that game up on MS-DOS.

[@briangreen1781]

@@jayg1438 I completely forgot about that. I was the younger brother so it was a fight to get on the COM 64. Lol

[@phredphlintstone6455]

You can still get it

[@LukeSkyDancer]

Pirate ship stories are the best and Love

[@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)

[@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.

[@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 .

[@Treebeard146]

Piracy is without doubt one of the best aspects of history especially the golden age

[@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.

[@matthewboyd3653]

Really enjoyed this video! Thanks for posting.

[@jordiegundersen1465]

I get your point, but I think it is more apt to refer to sea pirates as opportunists rather than criminals, considering that their strategies were and still are on par with today’s modern political systems…!

[@frankjames7272]

Nah! I call them sweethearts.

[@gamerman782]

So criminals?

[@FordyTheConeSmoker]

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

[@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

[@adam-shaggycraig470]

Great & educational & informative.

[@uptheblues1875]

Some of the earlier pirates that often get over shadowed by the Caribbean counter parts are the barbary pirates. Wish you would've included something about them too

[@mrvwbug4423]

The Barbary pirates were different, for most of their existence they were the commerce raiding portion of the Ottoman navy, and most of their captains had the "Reis" title indicating their service in the Ottoman Empire (Reis was the rank title for a navy captain in the Ottoman empire). The tradition was started by Oruc Reis in the early 16th century

[@uptheblues1875]

@@mrvwbug4423 earlier on sure, but later around the 17th century, algeirs became especially more autonomous and the Barbary pirates like jack ward and Jan janzsoon did not swear allegiance to the ottomans

[@keithkollenbaum]

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

[@dougwatt6303]

Brig & Brigantine have only 2 masts, btw. Good vid!

[@somebodykares1]

Some boats could have had more or fewer masts, considering not all ships were built the exact same, and he had said that pirates tended to modify the ships they stole.

[@Benethor]

@@somebodykares1 No its literally what defines the class Brig and Brigantine, which are also NOT the same

[@somebodykares1]

@@Benethor Pirates Modified their ships they could add or remove sails if they wanted because they did not follow the standard rules of the royal navy.

[@Benethor]

@@somebodykares1 Yeah sure, but with one more mast it wouldnt be a Brig anymore :D Its also not like you could easily fit a whole new mast on a ship. The rigging on a mast, sure. But not a whole mast, that would basically need to build the ship new from scratch

[@somebodykares1]

@@Benethor I don't think Pirates really gave a damn what type of ship it was, it was a ship, they could store treasure.

[@Mike-ht6rf]

I loved this video.

[@MegaUnderscore]

The fancy was a schooner, the queen annes revenge a Frigate, and Galleons were the Spanish equivalent of British ships of the line. A few mistakes at the back of the video. You are correct about the category of Frigate though.

[@antonbrakhage490]

The Fancy (Henry Every's ship) was most definitely NOT a schooner. It had 46 guns, and was comparable to the QAR or a frigate.

[@BohemianBeatster]

Groovy video

[@russellcole3549]

Bastian. No, a brig had two masts, and a Brigantine had two masts with a fore-and-aft rigged sail in the mizzen mast. He does confuse Brigs and Brigantines, however. And broadly lumps various ships as square rigged.

[@frankjames7272]

And never even said arrrrrr once.

[@williamscroggins9627]

Russel Cole: Brigs and brigantines don’t have a mizzen mast! Two masts; main and fore. Brigantine main mast is fore and aft rigged. Brig main mast is square rigged. The after mast is called the main mast because it’s taller than the fore mast. Two- masted vessel with the after mast being shorter (mizzen mast) is called a ketch.

[@MaiaCoimbra]

Just love it, congrats and thanks

[@lightbox617]

Speed and fire power. Co incidentally, what you need in a fighter aircraft. ships don't really care much about altitude as long as it's above sea level

[@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.

[@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.

[@stevebrownrocks6376]

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

[@michaelfitzgerald434]

The ship shown at 7:55 is a clipper ship, hardly a pirate ship. It is, however, a square rigged ship. Moreover, pirates seldom engaged in the ship to ship warfare espoused by Hollywood. Most pirates looted cities and thus fought on land. Their ships, for the most part, simply transported pirate armies from land engagement to land engagement

[@joostprins3381]

Those were boekaniers, land living “pirates”.

[@loghillenterprises4585]

Your statement is only true for the later half of the 17th century, like the Henry Morgan escapades. In the early 1700s, the pirate crews were less armies and more sailors, thus their work was primarily at sea.

[@michaelfitzgerald434]

@@loghillenterprises4585 You watch too much Hollywood.

[@loghillenterprises4585]

@@michaelfitzgerald434 I have read dozens of books on the subject. But nice try.

[@michaelfitzgerald434]

@@loghillenterprises4585 As have I. Name one clash at sea.

[@nigelbrennan3816]

Brilliant ...Thank You !

[@savage_x89]

Did anyone else spend this entire video comparing the ships mentioned to ships seen in the pirates of the Caribbean series?

[@jakenorth9972]

No ships from black flag, Xbox 360.

[@norgeek]

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

[@mikistenbeck6517]

"Often small, no more then *_100 tons,"_* XDD, okei, i know ship can get COLOSSAL, even for that time but still to call 100 tons *LIGHT* is funny too me, XDD

[@Peregrin3]

The HMS Victory was 3,556 tons with a crew of 800 and 104 guns and it wasn't even the largest sailing ship ever built, galleons were around 500 tons.

[@mikistenbeck6517]

@@Peregrin3 i know that :), one of the biggest 1-st rate ships of that time was the Santisima Trinidad that was 4.950 tons, i also know it was sunk by Victory in the Battle- and Fall- of Trafalgar the 21st of October of 1805, (although not without taking HEAVY damage herself,) i think she needed to be towed back to England she was that banged up.

[@JonatasAdoM]

@@mikistenbeck6517 An age of sail ship being towed. Now that must have been a sight.

[@mikistenbeck6517]

@@JonatasAdoM yea, it still is tho, XD

[@ethanjustice8890]

@@mikistenbeck6517 She wasnt sunk during the battle and it wasnt the Victory. Her main mast and rudder were disabled by the smaller ship Neptune and she was towed back by the British and scuttled

[@tapanmukherjee338]

Loved the documentary being a Seafarer myself. Excellent

[@ghaldurinanubios4290]

Hold up... the Revenge was a galleon? Wasn't it just a remodeled Frigate?

[@rezendeiiz.knight1084]

... comparing it to the the game I played in my phone the 2 frigates named concord (free to capture in the storyline) and Queen Anne's revenge (the same but more powerful than the free one probably remodeled after its captured) yeah its not galleon and on the game the galleon's dont look similar to frigates on the game atleast but, idk on the irl have a galleon that looks like a frigate existed

[@edwoods5249]

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

[@dracoff2671]

So small ship are beter. But in movies they show big ship square ship

[@Cretaal]

No they weren't. A sloops guns are too small to hunt big vessels and their thicker hulls, won't hold as much loot and won't hold enough provisions for long expeditions. They're just fast, easy, cheap and convenient ships.

[@jayg1438]

Hey Ram. It all depends on what they could get. Pirates did not by choice attack or fight actual naval ships unless they had too. Smaller ships were easier to command and crew. The speed they had gave them an advantage over slower merchant ships, and the shallow draught allowed them to hide in shallow water inlets and waterways.

[@carronade2456]

I wanted to point out something that wasn't mentioned in this video, because it was not a ship. Pirates used these special canoes that had a single mast. They were unarmed and were primary used to sail up rivers to raid towns. Unfortunately, I can't remember what it was called.

[@carronade2456]

@@Cretaal Some pirates ships were unarmed because pirates preferred to use fear to scare the crews of their prey rather than getting into a cannon battle.

[@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.

[@troll_ac]

1:10 Flat Earthers Nightmare.

[@danjunk3029]

great video

[@ThePoliticrat]

Pirates didn’t use galleons. They were inefficient for the job.

[@biggusdickus819]

And impossible to capture.

[@ThePoliticrat]

@@biggusdickus819 Try telling that to Henry Morgan or Henry Every.

[@biggusdickus819]

@@ThePoliticrat Henry Morgan mostly attacked ports and small Spanish ship squadrons not full on galleons...

[@ThePoliticrat]

@@biggusdickus819 I mean, galleons can still be relatively small in size. It was a specific design; not a class of ship.

[@biggusdickus819]

@@ThePoliticrat A galleon would not be accompanied by a small squadron of ships that are small.

[@javiermedina9080]

It has to be stated a few keey things about Frigates and galleon. Galleons for the most part we’re equipped with Demi-culverin type guns, usually only reaching that of a 10 pounder gun ( 32 pounders and lower were possible but not very frequently used), galleons also didn’t have much in terms of heavy planking so they penetrated by 10 pounder guns and above. As you said frigates were purpose made warships, usually a 6th or 5th rate ship ( though super frigates, heavy frigates, and super-heavy frigates could be considered 4th- 3rd or even 2nd rated ships), now it is true that in terms of number of guns, frigates do have less, but most of these were usually long guns of 12 pounder and above ( most commonly that of 18 pounder or 24 pounders for their main decks or heaviest decks, not including carronades). With a long gun of heavier shot frigates could easily penetrate galleons hulls with ease and hit them more accurately at further ranges, and with the frigates better armour and handling/speed they could dictate the battle conditions. even of taking into consideration that some pirates up gunned their ships, they were still not well armoured, slow and cumbersome to handle, not to mention that if they face a royal navy warship they have to compete with gun crews that can fire their guns 2-3 times every 5 minutes, less time if the crews were highly trained. Now it is not impossible to win against a frigate, specially those of lower tiers and with short-medium range guns, but it is a battle that can be costly.

[@wolf310ii]

You do know that Galleons include a wide range of ships? From around 120 tons to 1200 tons and from merchant ship to 1st rate war ship, similar to frigattes that ranged from 6th rate to 4th rate?

[@UncleBuZ]

I'm a solo Slooper

[@Bob-r1i4u]

Who cares, you special?

[@UncleBuZ]

@@Bob-r1i4u Yes, clearly someone does after 2 years, otherwise, why are you here commenting? And yes, I am special - I can sail solo, read, and use punctuation correctly, which seems to be a struggle for some.

[@Mr-S.p.o.c.k]

@@Bob-r1i4u Why are you watching sail boat videos at 10pm on a Friday night? And commenting on two year old comments. Loser.

[@joegiuseppepalermo2755]

@@Mr-S.p.o.c.k lol

[@joegiuseppepalermo2755]

@@Bob-r1i4u You had to scroll down like, 69 times to get to this comment. You care. You, are special.

[@XEPER888888888888888]

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

[@besserwizard]

There is so much misinformation and endorsement of common myths in this video that I‘m not even going to adress it.

[@palungjnl]

Very useful video, played right into my laziness by saving me a bunch of researching and Wikipedia reading lol Hope you're having a good day, dear reader :)

[@jaquemate7254]

This is a terrible video. He has no idea of pirates and ships that used. Mainly canoas and small ships. In the Mediterranean they used galleys or xebecs...for example. Theses, the arab pirates or the chinese were more important or powerfull than the ones that were in the Caribean. Pirates were thieves, no warriors. So they never attacked a galleon except if they were much much more pirates than spanish soldiers. Drunkers, assassins, rapers, and other criminals... spanish beat them many times during centuries. Hollywood made the romantic image but it is not historical. They attacked undefended civilian ships or small towns mainly. They raped women and even killed children. They were not an example of humanity.

[@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.

[@clintstinkeye5607]

Cool trivia. 👍

[@DGFishRfine1]

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

[@Rambo2-501]

Lol. The Sea of Thieves Brig and Skelly Galleon at 6:00

[@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.