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- Edward Low Edward 'Ned' Lowe (or Low, or Loe), often known as Ned Low was a notorious pirate during the Golden Age of Piracy. His pirate flag featured a black flag with a red skeleton. Lowe is also famous as one of the more brutal pirates, inflicting torture an...
- Captain Kidd Kidd had to be once of the unluckiest pirates ever to become famous. The poor guy seemed plagued by one misfortune after and other. He was eventually caught, tried and hanged in 1701.
- Real Pirates of the Caribbean Long before the ride at Disneyland or the movie staring Jonny Depp, real pirates roamed the waters pillaging and plundering and striking fear in the hearts of seafarers around the world.
- Howell Davis Pirate Davis was a Welch pirate who preyed on ships off the coast of West Africa and in the Caribbean from 1718 until june of 1719
- Richard Worley Along with Pirate Emanuel Wynn they popularized the flying of the skull and cross bones flag.
- Henry Every One of the most famous of all English pirates. He severed in the Royal Navy before turning to plunder the seas.
- Emanuel Wynn Pirates didn't always fly the skull and cross bones flag call the Jolly Roger. Emanuel Wynn's flag, showing the distinctive skull and crossbones motif, was augmented with another common pirate symbol: an hourglass (meant to signify to his...
- George Lowther (pirate) George Lowther (? - 1723) was an 18th century English pirate who, although little is known of his life, was active in the Caribbean and Atlantic.
