Pirate Attacks more Brazen

Pirate Attacks continue on shipping

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Pirates are gaining confidence again, they are now getting away with their evil deeds of piracy; they are attacking more and more ships. And not much seems to be beeing done about it.

The rules of engagement have changed; when stopped you have to ask them why they are carrying an arsenal of weapons; and when they tell you the answer is, "for protection against Pirates" you have to let them go and give them any fuel or food they might need.

There is no recognised law enforcement that covers the High Seas effectively. Navies of the world are often reluctant to intervene; unless specifically asked to respond to an act of piracy.

In the seventeen hundreds when the navies were powerful justice was seen to be done, there and then, whenever the need arose. Pirates were hung on the spot or taken home to face justice; and when found guilty put in a steel cage and lowered into the sea live for the crabs to eat.

On one such occasion the slice of a Royal Navy broadsword removed Blackbeard’s head. He had been terrorising the Carolina’s shipping along the United States coast for years.

Piracies

Blackbeard 1680 to 1718

BLACKBEARD (Edward Teach) it is believed was formerly Edward Drummond a native of Bristol, England.

He was the most notorious pirate that ever sailed the high seas. He served in Queen Anne’s War, as a privateer (Commissioned to pirate enemy shipping) preying on French ships for Britain.

After the war he joined the pirate crew of Captain Benjamin Hornigold in the Bahamas. He went on to command his own pirate ship the Queen Anne’s Revenge; she had 40 cannons.

Blackbeard’s boldness to attack ships and plunder their cargo before setting them alight made him the most feared pirate ever.

He gained in confidence attacking any ship that came within range of his guns, including the British ships.

Blackbeard's big mistake

Lt. Robert Maynard set out from England especially to hunt Blackbeard down; when he met Blackbeard in a classic face to face the deck of the sloop ended up soaked in Blackbeard's blood.

Each pulled pistols and fired upon meeting; Blackbeard missed his mark; Maynard’s shot ploughed through Blackbeard’s great body but that didn't stop Blackbeard.

The fight continued with swords, when another seaman approached he slashed Blackbeard's throat. Still fighting he cocked another pistol other British seamen then joined in for the kill.

Blackbeard’s head was removed from his torso; it hung from the bowsprit of Maynard’s warship.

Indonesia's Fast Boats Pirates

Indonesian pirates using fast boats slipped aboard the heavily laden Baltimar Zephir just before midnight.

Armed with machine guns they sprayed the bridge with bullets, destroying the radio and radar.

They killed the British Captain and some of the crew; none were armed.

The First Mate was found on his knees beside the open safe with his brains blown out.

There was thirty British pounds in the safe, which the pirates did not bother to pick up.

China has executed thirteen pirates

In the country’s biggest piracy case for fifty years China has executed thirteen pirates including an Indonesian.

The thirteen pirates wined and dined copiously before staggering drunkenly, some singing a World Cup soccer song, to their execution ground.

The modern-day pirates had hijacked a bulk carrier bound for Malaysia. Once aboard they clubbed the twenty-three Chinese seamen to death. On board the cargo ship CHANGSHENG.

They posed as anti-smuggling police officers when they pulled alongside the bulk carrier off of the coast of Shanghai.

The same pirates were also accused of hi-jacking a Singapore based oil tanker in the same year, where again they killed all of the crew by clubbing them to death.

Sarawak the headless body of a man

Sarawak the headless body of a man was found lying on the side of the road on the Mambong Road 15½ miles from Kuching.

The 55-year-old murder victim was identified as Sim Geok Boi, alias ‘Ah Sie’ through his fingerprint record.

According to initial police investigations, the attack might be an act of revenge due to Sim’s criminal past and involvement in gangsterism.

Sim was suspected of piracy and gangster activities in the early seventies. During his years of terror he was widely known as ‘Ah Sie’.

Six Kentish pirates plundered an Essex ship

Clacton-on-Sea whilst Christopher Columbus was sailing the high seas and discovering America.

The Monks from St Osyth Priory visited the seashore at Eastness (Clacton-on-Sea) to collect their harvest.

The weirs belonged to the Bishop of London whom derived a handsome income from the sale of the fresh fish.

The weir at Eastness (outside Clacton Golf Club) was so fruitful it was called "Fortune of Plenty".

It was off of here that six Kentish pirates attacked and plundered an Essex ship.

They were caught then taken and imprisoned in Colchester Castle.

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