Was it common in those days that the crew of a pirate ship came from the same region? I always thought that crewmembers boarded wherever the ship landed. Especially when members died in batlle or otherwise and there was a shortage of men.

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I heard Mr Duffus give a talk at The North Carolina Martime Museum. It was great fun, vigorously argued, well illustrated, but full or errors.

For instance he argued that no one born in Bristol would have possible have named their ship The Queen Anne’s Revenge because the Queen was Scots. She was in fact only a quarter Scots, born forty years after her Scots grandfather, James I died. His argument that she was the last of the Stuart dynasty, named after Henry Stewart (sic), Lord Darney, which makes her Scots is about at logical as arguing that George V, who was king when Britain went into the First world war against Germany, was German because his family name was Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, and his grandfater was a German.

Again Mr Duffus argued that some of Blackbeards pirates were charged with treason because they fired on the Kings Navy. While Treason could be widely interpreted, inluding attacking the Archbishop of Canterbury’s Palace, (1640) and pulling down brothels (1688) it did not include firing at the kings soldiers or sailors. Indeed until the 1820s the military were the main police force in England and I have found not a single instance of ,say smugglers ,who fired on them being charged with treason.

Mr Duffus has written a fun book, but the best verdict for which he can hope is the Scots one of “Non-proven.”

I can’t wait to read the book!