An Overview of Pirate Ship Types (1630-1730) 

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Something I would love to see you cover: The economics of ship ownership. How much would a ship cost (in context of contemporary economy and wages), maintenance, and how much privateers might get for reselling a used ship they captured.

Man, you really sound like you had fun doing this video. It's so refreshing to hear you being happy.

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Actually I know something about the Snow. Depending on who you ask, it originated in Norway or the Netherlands. The name is from the Dutch, originally snauw apparently meaning "beak" because they had sharp beak-like bows. They were shallow of draft and very fast in coastal waters. The ship's shallow draft made them very popular for sailing up fjords and canals. A snow could easily travel with plenty of cargo from the depths of most northern fjord, out to and along the coast, and then deep into the canals of the Netherlands and back again. The reason for the peculiar sail plan is because square sails, while great out at sea, did not permit the necessary maneuverability while in a fjord or canal. When in a fjord or a canal, only staysails and the "snow sail", the gaff sail on the short aft mast, were used. The ship went slower but could turn on a thaller, important for avoiding sandbars and other underwater obstacles not usually found at sea. In the War of 1812, a number of ships on the Great Lakes are described as brigs or brigantines but were actually snows. You'll see them sometimes described as snow-brigs which is how I come to know of them. I had not known until now that you'd have found any in the Caribbean or the Colonies during the Golden Age of Piracy.

It's funny that you call the Piragua the Viking Longship of the Caribbean, because when I first learned about Piraguas, it really made question why the Longship fell out of use so early on, and didn't survive until the Age of Piracy. It seems it would have been as good, if not better than the Piragua at coastal raids, as well as sea voyages.

I wish i could find more stuff about barks and pinques

I can tell you had fun with this, I am looking forward to the upcoming videos!

You forgot the coffin (used by Captain Jack Sparrow in POTC 2).

Schooner is based on a Dutch word "Schoener". The ship design is also Dutch and actually mid 1600's.

I'm looking forwards to this. For research, of course. Also, I was hoping you'd cover schooners.

My dude, I work at a shipyard and I am getting my sailing license. When I am done saving for my ship, I will write you and you can be a pirate yourself if you want for free and make a video about going on the experience yourself.

It's after the time period but technically a ship of the line was built in the colonies. During the war of 1812 HMS St Lawrence, a 112 gun ship of the line larger than Nelson's flagship HMS Victory was built on Lake Ontario. It along with many other smaller ships was used to fight against American ships. I only mention it because the freshwater ship battles were interesting. It's said that the great lakes are the largest ship graveyards in the world. The lakes are huge by most people's standards. You can be out on them far enough to not see land in any direction.

So happy I came across your video. I've always wonder what water warfare would look like between different time periods. Like a Viking raid being met with more modern non-cannon ships or how a few modern (again non-cannon) could have altered the Battle of Artemisium

Thank you for making this video. You brought me more knowledge of the type of ships. Sometimes you search up a ship that looks totally the same like another but is just a different type wich makes it very confusing. I also never even thought of the difference there was in ships that where build in the early to mid 1700s then the ships from the late 1700s to early 1800s.

Hearing Pirates didn't use galleons is heartbreaking 😭

What are the sources for 3:16 and 6:05 sloops? Also, the amount of giggling in this video is uncanny.

Dude, G&G’s utter pleasure when he trolls people by bringing up the canoe is amazing!🤣😂

A shame the pirates never utilized the galleon, would make for an excellent mother ship for the sloops and the occasional Brigantine or a crapton of piraguas.

Such a great video to watch, really interesting and entertaining at the same time! Can't wait to hear more about fluyts, pinacce, sloops and brigantines!

Glad to be back in the channel, love ur videos for a long time bro. If you are into PC games, you wanna take a look at Blood and gold Caribbean, you can literally play with any of these ship classes and customiz them, board in first person or just engage in a ship of the line battle. I used to play it a lot listening to your videos lol.

I love the way you know pirate things.

Very nice and quite informative overview. Looking forward to videos about the half-galley. Very interesting to learn more of the 17th century smaller crafts like it. Also very nice positive attitude in this video. Cheers 🏴‍☠️

And you just got added to my research list for my Golden Age Pirate story. Def can use this because I'm writing about a pirate in this period.

An entire hundred years. How delightful. May not be very long but it is 10 times longer than 10 years.

Never watched a video from someone so passionate about their stuff, keep at it!

Great video! Missed the premier but it's a perfect lunchtime watch

I think this is the first time I've hears you laugh in a video. I didn't know you could feel the human emotion of joy.

I love your videos man. I can’t wait to see the next one. Keep up the great work

Great job on this channel.

You're giving me Port Royal 2 flashbacks.

You could do a second video on boats/ships that are not in this one - tartane, snow, polacca, caravel, chebec/xebec, qarib, and the Dutch round-bottom to name a few. Privateers did not sail with pirates - there was a lot of crossover between the two groups. Privateers were licensed by governments to raid an enemy's ships and were only allowed to take the amount of cargo stated in the license or lettre.- there had t be a formal declaration of war before a privateer could get a lettre-de-marque.- it was a highly regulated career - all ships captured had to be taken to an Admiralty Court and take statements from the crew of both ships as well as the captains and the Court decided if it was a valid capture and what was to be done with the vessel and its cargo

Well slightly different periods the 1630-80s.were the heyday of the buccaneers who operated a little differently to later pirates whose heyday was the 1700s to the 1730s.

You forgot pontoon boats. Also bass boats. Favorite craft of lake "pirates".

Badass video!! Keep them coming!!

Always great information mate! It does get so confusing with a vessel's "type" being reclassified depending on the time period! Lol! I just finished reading the book "Six Frigates" which is about the founding of the US Navy. The British Royal Navy during the War of 1812 considered the American 44's as "Ships of the Line" disguised as Frigates due to their firepower vs their rigging. Locally here in St Augustine the "Pirate" Ship is a small Galleon with non-functional square rigging. The general public believes that Pirates used Galleons thanks to Hollywood movies. There is also a wooden 2-masted 70 ft Schooner called "Revenge" that will soon be plying the local waters as a pirate ship. It is being decorated to look more like the 18th century time period. We also have a 70 ft Schooner called "Freedom" here in St Augustine which is a replica of a Revolutionary War blockade runner.

Out of all these ships, I think I like the Brig the most.

A Royal Navy ship of the line was over 10 x the weight of Blackbeard’s flag ship

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The bark is my favorite sailing ship I’m so happy

great video! I love that it sounds like this guy is really passionate about ships and had fun making the video

Hey idk how interested you are in this kind of video but I'd find it really interesting if you made breakdown videos on fictional pirate and age of sail ships. What real ships might have inspired them, how realistic or unrealistic they are and adjustments that could be made to make them more authentic. Just with the POTC series and AC4 you should already have enough for a small series and there's probably a lot more worth covering. Tintin, Sibad, black sails, etc.

Good video, thank you !

The maritime museum in Beaufort, North Carolina, which houses the relics recovered from the Queen Anne's Revenge, continues to believe pretty strongly that the QAR is the former French slaver, the Concorde. Some dispute that the wreck is even the QAR but I tend to discount those arguments. How would you categorize the "lugger?" Commonly used as garda costas by the Spanish throughout the New World. Is "lugger" a more modern term? It sounds like they are close to your half galley. I also respectfully suggest that it might be more correct to spell "bark" as "barque" and "flute" as "fluyt."

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I was told that privateer is not a reference to a type of ship but rather to the politics of the ship owner. Privateers were state sponsored raiders while pirates were answerable to no one but themselves

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Your paintings are spectacular

Came across your channel through this video, instantly fell in love! Can't wait to binge your pirate ship videos 😊

You would love to play the game "Sea Dogs: To each his own" by Akella

You missed the barquentine.

The Queen Anne's Revenge was a French made frigate and the Black Pearl from Pirates of the Caribbean is based off of her.

Indiamen and Trans-Oceanic Merchant vessels would be neat. Like what did they use in the Americas to trade with Europe, what did they use in Europe to trade with the colonies, what did Europe use to trade with Africa, and so on.

14 : 09 again ? Edward Low ? i'm stuned you don't have do a video about him !

Amazing comprehensive overview, you are truly the best Pirate channel on youtube. Also what was the deal with crossing open ocean in smaller ships? You correctly stated that many roundsmen used full rigged ship but it has been stated (possibly unreliably) that Thomas Tew did some (possibly all) of his work in a sloop called Amity, so could it be done?

Have you played pirates of the Caribbean online game

Awesome! When I play sea of thieves now and someone's on a "galleon" I'll say "eer... I think you'll find that's a full rigged pink"

Enjoying your content, thanks!

Great video!

i have a question that is kind of related to ship stuffs can these type of ship that you are covering in this video sail into the wind. lets say that one day you the captain of a brig ,want to change direction and the wind which is now not blowing behind you but at you. soo wordnet that make your ship go back words ? soo how do pirates maneuver up and down or even around the area if they can only sail where the wind blows, i mean why don't the navy just wait for the pirates to get blown in and catch them hahaha

Hello. I think two things You get wrong in your videos. Can You explain on this? First mainmast should be always taller mast. In most two mast ships the second one is main. What makes ketch a ketch is that first mast is taller and is called mainmast. Second I think brig and brigantine had oposite rig. Brig had squares with spanker and brigantine had big gaff and could have topsail on aft mast. This is what I always find on this topics.

Hey, do you know something about Bilanders? They were a type of ship used in that period and even later, they had three masts usually, two large square sailed masts and one lateen sail mast. There is not much information about them it seems.

G and G, quick question that I haven’t been able to find online. Is there a galleon like ship where the mizzenmast’s lateen sail is instead a gaff or spanker?

My Great Uncle sallied With the famous Blackbeard..

For once, youtube recommendation worked. Score 1 for youtube. Don't know why it took so long - youtube knows I'm all about naval warfare and especially the age of sail.

I am so happy to finally having stumbled across your channel, so refreshing on the Pirates topic and what I like the most, not being blinded by myth or silly wiki copy pasta but reliant on sources which only work with primary sources. well done. Now you lighting up my wish actually to read some more and I appreciate you mentioning some sources in each video, but maybe you could make a video or suggest the 3 top Pirates book to read. And another wish, less academical I suppose but fun, which are the 3 top video games (beside Sid Meiers Pirates!) did you enjoy most? so here we go 2 wishes, keep the videos coming and take care, cheers from Germany

Great video, would love one about the scow.

Also when is the next Baltic empire video? Do you do one video a week on this channel and Baltic empire whenever you have the time? Or is there a schedule for both?

Awesome video. Had a bit of school assignment vibe. Overall still great work. I want my own ship and raise the Red Flag. No black. Surrender or die. Don't judge, you said you'd be a slaver haha

At least in modern terminology, a "boat" is any vessel that can be carried onboard another vessel, so PT 'boat', and submarines, are still called 'boats' although today's sub is certainly too large to carried aboard another vessel. In the Golden Age, as you mention, nomenclature was pretty loose, depended a lot on the country of origin of the person talking and was more descriptive of rigging than size. You could have a sloop that was larger than a barque, a pinnace that was the same size as a small sloop, etc. The main limitations were the size of the sails and number of men required to work the ship. Pirates had lots of men, while cargo ships had small crews to maximize profit. A galleon was basically a floating fortress, designed to carry a large number of men, not for handling the ship, but for defense, since the galleon had a high-value cargo and traveled long distances. Pirates sometimes traveled long distances, but typically worked a local area, whether it was the Carribean, the Red Sea, the coast of the Americas, the Spice Islands, etc. There's not much profit in long-distance cruising, the point was to get to a 'hunting ground' where you'd find the goodies, attack a lightly-defended merchantman with a hired crew that had no interest in dying in the defense of the owners' cargo, make off with everything of value, maybe recruit or force a few skilled new crewman and scarper before any legal authority got wind of you. And, of course, pirates took the ship that was at hand, if it offered any advantage over what they were sailing. Ships didn't have a long service life, rot and marine borers could ruin a ship in a few years, or less, so 'trading up' was necessary. Just as you wouldn't choose a small sloop for a transAtlantic voyage, you wouldn't choose a three-masted, four-deck ship of the line to raid the Carribean. "Form follows function".

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Disembark.. wonder if it means the boat

Is this last one a yawl?

ship must have 3 masts? are you saying that brigs and schooners aren't ships?

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Well, I'm confused now. Did the terms Brig and Brigantine literally swap meanings over the years??

You seem to be in a good mood in this video 😁

So pirates never use a 1st rate ship? my only knowledge of Caribbean pirates is from the game "Sid Meires Pirates" 😅

Subscribbed! What a great video.

i find it unlikley that pirates never used galeons it was definetly rear though. unlike in media were every pirate uses one

I'm going with Anything that they could lay their hands upon ???

a schooner, snow, brig or brigantine has no mizzen, they have a fore and main mast :D a ketch or yawl has a main and mizzen, and no fore mast

So how exactly were schooners harder to sail or more dangerous? A huge pro of fore-and-aft rigging is that it is actually much easier to handle and more manageable to sail with a smaller crew (on a fore-and-aft rigged vessel you can just turn with the rudder then adjust the sails to your new course using the sheets, on a square rigger there are a lot more steps to maneuvering). Fail to see how it's more dangerous either, the sails can be easily reefed in rough conditions and the vast majority of the work can be done from the deck and you don't have to send men aloft like on a square-rigged ship. People take fore-and-aft rigs across the ocean all the time and have since the Polynesians, so the rigs are seaworthy. Square rigs were popular for the high seas because they were optimal for riding the prevailing winds, not because they were easier to sail (they definitely weren't) or less dangerous (not sure exactly why that would be the case). The only way I can see schooners generally being more dangerous back in the time period is because a lot of schooners were built for island hopping and coastal trade and therefore their hull construction was different than ocean-going square riggers, but that's due to the hull construction not the rig itself.

Great Video, but there is something wrong you said, the ships of the line where also build in the Caribbean, like by Spain in habana(Cuba)

Pirate ship are smaller they used the schooner type and they have one or two cannons

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I would love to see the sources, cause some of the ships you covered are quite wrongly described.

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Captain kid use a galleon and he was a pirate

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That's a lot O.o

I'm actually really sad they didn't use Galleons.

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I’m struggling to understand the narrative. It’s very interesting and I wish you could speak just a tiny bit slower.

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Chad piragua > virgin galleon