Modern day pirates, politics, and pillaging. Basic information about the ruthless piracy going on in the West Indies during this time. Follow Pirates of the Islands on WordPress. Pirates often swung from ship to ship like tarzan back in the day. The pirates would atteck other ships and then loot everything from the big ships. Create a free website or blog at WordPress.

Somalian pirates are not less cruel then the pirates of the golden age. In 2005, a group of Somalian pirates raped a woman in front of her husband and killed the husband the next day. Also, they kill, cut nose and ear of the victims if they receive their ransom late. Somalia pirates steal about 2 billion dollars and kill thousands of people every year. I am so happy that I took this class because everything that I knew about pirates was a wrong information.

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Lady Serena Killingstone AKA Courtney Williams. Medicine in the 18th century was not advance nor technologically savvy, what were some the of problems faced by pirates in the narratives and films when it came to surgery and injury aboard the ships? What were the medical techniques used by the on board barber who also took the job of surgeon and what was his success rate? April 14, 2014.