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Salty Dog
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PostPosted: Tue Jul 03, 2018 2:40 am    Post subject: The Pirate Code Reply with quote

Was there a real Pirate Code? To be honest, at best it really was more like guidelines . The pirate code really is pure literary fiction and was developed from ship's articles found on some pirate ships. There was no written Pirate Codex as portrayed in Pirates of the Caribbean, at World's End.

The Code refers to the Ship's Articles and some of the false bravado portrayed by pirates to scare their enemies. For instance it was reported at several trials that pirates declared they would blow up their ship and all go to hell before being captured and hanged. Few pirates ever did so (if any), however a few tried, often being stopped by other pirates -- so much for keeping to the code! Still the threat was known well enough to make naval offers fear boarding a pirate ship.
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Salty Dog
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PostPosted: Tue Jul 03, 2018 2:40 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Other than these boasts and ship's articles, there was no real pirate code. Furthermore, from the few surviving ship's articles their is evidence that not every ship was ran the same way which leads one to believe that no universal code existed and if it did, it was not followed.

There is also was no proof pirate council or pirate king controlling all the oceans (or even a single ocean).
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