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Pirate Wench Costume – Fancy Being A Fancy Dress Pirate Then Think About Anne Bonny
The Golden age of piracy was thought to last from around 1650 through to 1720. It was said to thrive during this time because the various naval powers of the time were not established and anarchy ruled the waves. As soon as the Royal Navy and other European fleets started to make their presence felt, primarily in the Atlantic ocean but also the Mediterranean and Indian oceans, many pirates soon either sort a new gig or felt the bite of the hempen halter (and more besides).
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This period has gone through all manner of revisions thanks to books like Treasure Island, movies like the Pirates Of The Caribbean and even kids shows like Captain Pugwash. The popular modern revision of Pirates from those times were incorrigible scoundrels partaking in daring do adventures that usually ended up with tall tales in the Inn or Pub. The sanitized version in fact.
In reality, most pirates were career criminals that would be given short shrift if ever captured. And some of the legendary pirate captains were nasty pieces of work with few redeeming features.
Hey, but why let the truth ruin a good story and anyway, you’re looking for a pirate wench costume so what does all this reality have to do with dressing up like a pirate ? Well I did a little research when looking at pirate costumes and I was quite surprised to find that there were female pirates. Not many, but some were extremely successful. And others had stories of their own well worth telling. Maybe you can use their tales to inspire you in your next fancy dress party or Halloween event.
And possibly one of the most notorious female pirates was Anne Bonny. Her tale is recounted in the famous book “A General History of the Pyrates”.
It tells that Anne was born in County Cork in Ireland. It recounts how her family effectively emigrated to the new world and South Carolina, because of some indiscretions by her father. Despite his shame in the old country, her father was massively successful and became wealthy.
So Anne grew up in a fair degree of comfort and luxury. But as she got older, she got in with a bad crowd. She ended up marrying a low level criminal and aspiring pirate (one and the same thing in fact). And though the details are pretty vauge, it appears they burned her father’s plantation home down accidentally or on purpose. Whoops.
They left South Carolina under a rather heavy cloud and ended up in the Caribbean. They settled on the island of Bahamas that was the center of the pirate world at the time. This gave Anne more opportunity to mix with the rum folks that called themselves pirates. It was also during these days that husband and wife drifted away from each other. She fell in with a man known as John “Calico Jack” Rackham (great name!) who was a known pirate and had a sloop.
The new couple left on the sloop and Anne Bonny became a full blown pirate (probably not a wench though as she seemed to be pretty strong willed).
Anne lived as a man when on board the ship. She dressed in men’s clothing and did the same sort of work as the other men. Only Rackham, who captained the ship knew her real identity.
Rackham’s band of scurvy seadogs performed many acts of piracy, generally on Spanish galleons, laden with gold and other precious items from the colonies. It is believed that Anne distinguished herself well during their missions. However the sloop was eventually tracked down by a Royal Navy sloop and the pirates were captured.
Rackham and many of the other pirates were hanged but Anne Bonny pleaded her belly. She claimed she was pregnant and that forbade the law from enforcing her own hanging sentence. After that nothing else is known of her. Various claims say that she died in prison whilst other claim she escaped and went back to live in South Carolina. Whatever the truth, her story might serve as inspiration for your next pirate wench costume party.
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