Did AUSTRALIA have PIRATES?

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Did AUSTRALIA have PIRATES?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gQKV0elau1I

Shadow Matter
2 Jul 2022


Did AUSTRALIA have PIRATES?

Pirates in the stereo-typical sense of ship stealing, treasure obsessed, sword fighting thieves, are mostly derived from the GOLDEN AGE OF PIRACY (1650-1730) in the Carribean, North America and UNITED KINGDOM.


Did Australia have PIRATES?

most were convicts who wished to escape colonial penal life and stole ships to get back home while others lived a dangerous pirate life after whaling or sealing wasn't a good economic option.

in today's episode we count down AUSTRALIA'S TOP 5 PIRATES.
From Mary Bryant, Australia's FIRST FEMALE PIRATE and an escapee of convict life to BLACK JACK ANDERSON who terrorised the AUSTRALIAN COAST during the early 19th century As well as WILLIAM SWALLOW who engaged with SAMURAI in Japan!
Truly inspiring and fascinating stories that stand out in AUSTRALIA'S MARITIME HISTORY.

Get ready to walk the plank and unfurl that map.
join us as we explore AUSTRALIA'S PIRATES

Timecodes on youtube page

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Cyprus mutiny
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyprus_mutiny
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyprus_(1816_ship)


The Cyprus mutiny took place in 1829 off the British penal settlement of Van Diemen's Land (now Tasmania, Australia).

Convicts seized the brig Cyprus and sailed her to Canton, China, where they scuttled her and claimed to be castaways from another vessel. On the way, Cyprus visited Japan during the height of the period of severe Japanese restrictions on the entry of foreigners, the first Australian ship to do so.

The mutineers were eventually captured.

Two of them, George James Davis and William Watts, were hanged at Execution Dock, London on 16 December 1830, the last men hanged for piracy in Britain.

Their leader, William Swallow, was never convicted of piracy because he convinced the British authorities that, as the only experienced sailor, he had been forced to remain onboard and coerced to navigate the ship. Swallow was instead sentenced to life on Van Diemen's Land for escaping, where he died four years later.

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The Last Pirate

https://www.sea.museum/2017/05/31/the-last-pirate

In the early 19th century Japan had closed its doors to foreign ships in an effort to resist colonisation.
One day in January 1830, a British flagged ship appeared off the coast of Mugi, in Shikoku, southern Japan.

The ship, the brig Cyprus, was in fact a pirated vessel with a crew of escaped convicts from Tasmania under the command of the self-styled ‘Captain William Swallow’.


https://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-06-25/english-surfer-solves-mystery-of-australian-pirate-ship-in-japan/8639906


http://www.telelib.com/authors/C/ClarkeMarcus/prose/OldTales/seizurecyprus.html


http://www.gomezsmart.myzen.co.uk/POBJOYs/individuals/johnppj/cyprus.html


CONVICTS & PIRACY In Australia
https://oztreasure.weebly.com/convicts--piracy.html

Includes the Cyprus Brig