True stories from the Golden Age of Piracy(1630-1730).
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In fiction .".Kidnapped "...the first time David Balfour sees his ominous uncle..he was pointing a blunderbus at him...saying."..Beware I have a blunderbus" After that...things started going South...
its funny how you don't mention the fact that the jack daw has way to many cannons for a brig her size. fully upgraded she has as much cannon as queen anne's revenge a full blown frigate. its halarious.
As someone who lost his right eye at the age of 35 I can confirm that wearing an eyepatch is done solely for reasons of appearance and of course a prosthetic made from glass is the best solution. Mine is made so well that most people don't even notice my disability. The main problem with having only one working eye is not the loss of stereoscopic sight, it is the severe reduction of your field of vision.
I bet more than one poor soul has blown part or all of his own hand off with various versions of the blunderbus. Cylindrical pieces of iron and brass would make a loud, frightening noise as they hurtled through the air toward the enemy buzzing and humming as they flew. Be a good idea to wear brown pants into battle!
I've watched this video(/watch?v=7LhEC4YgWJo) about the USS Constellation (last US sailing ship) and the guy showing the ship states that death by splinters is a myth.
Named 'garłacz' in Poland, after the end of a drain pipe, from French 'gargouille'. Also named 'szturmak' from 'to storm' suggesting it was used in storming fortifications.
Even if it was used by highway men no one was designing weapons just for muggers 😂🤦♂️ they used weapons & equipment from other professions and adapted them to their needs & desires
Debating these bladed weopons academicly is kinda dumb. Pirates were/are violent criminals they would use whatever they could. Of course they'd use the best available but what really matters is to attach fast with overwhelming violence!
The axes shown would only be good for cutting people and rope not wood, of course still better than a sword would be. The heads /blades are flat, axes for wood cutting are wedge shaped to split essentially break the wood. Those boarding axes would cut into the wood without splitting or breaking it- then you would have a hell a time trying to get it back out... There are wood working axes shaped that way for things like timber framing, they are used for precise cuts creating the joints used to join the timbers together and often after a different ax has been used to roughly cut the shape required.
But *who owned the ship* itself? To be signed as a voting member, does the voting member need to buy his share of the total price of the ship? Sounds like something very few could afford 🤔
Minute 3:05, the gun below has an inscription. It says: POR CASTILLA POR LEON NUEVO MUNDO HALLÓ COLÓN. It is Spanish and it means "Columbus found a new world for Castile and Leon". Castile and Leon were two kingdoms in Spain.
I have a modern-made one, sold by Middlesex Village Traders. .69 caliber/14 gauge, 15" barrel. My son used to enjoy shooting it (under supervision, of course) when he was a kid. A 70 grain charge of powder and a load of buckshot used to really rock the little guy back on his heels! Then he'd hand it back to me and say, "I want to do it again, dad!" ♥
Since you have reproduction black powder guns im guessing you've done some black powder shooting and so you know it doesn't have anywhere near the recoil of smokeless powder, right?
