faster, and less ornate than Disney's fictitious Black Pearl, Blackbeard didn't make his fortune in a rowboat either. Here's a look at six of the more famous pirate ships in history.

Many of these ship plunderers remain famous to this day, but they were very different from the often-friendly pirates seen in the "Pirates of the Caribbean" movie franchise. Many of history's most ...

Pirates — those who plunder ships at sea or use their ships ... (Here are the 31 most famous shipwrecks in history.) Born on the island of Lésbos, brothers Oruç and Hizir (or Khiḍr ...

Saturday marks the 308th anniversary of the sinking of the pirate ship, Whydah, after one of the worst storms in history hit the ... Then in 1984, famous explorer and Massachusetts native Barry ...

“In 1783, having become a traitor and a pirate, José Gaspar gave the name of “Gasparilla” to himself as well as to his ship and the ... and swashbuckling, history tells a different story.

But as it turns out, there were dozens of pirates of African descent referred to as “Black Caesar.” In this episode of Rogue History ... lens of one of the most famous pirates ever, Black ...

When the smoke cleared, the Red Flag Fleet left behind a graveyard of burning hulks, roughly half of the Qing Navy, and even took a few dozen ships ... most fearsome pirate in history.

Not just any woman, but Ireland’s most famous stateswoman ... and was below deck nursing him when her ship was attacked by North African pirates who were overtaking her men.