Just need to make a 100 part 200 hours pirate documentary for the history channel at this point with quality this high lol. Always good stuff and always informative and well researched!
It amazes me how in so many of these accounts, how these massive intricate and expensive vessels were used and discarded, burned, sank or otherwise destroyed. When I watch wooden ships being built like the "Tally Ho", a vessel that would hardly be considered even a sloop, with how much work goes into building one... It makes the mind construct the world in which these men lived, and how of the worlds work force focused on building sailing ships. Each one would be considered a work of art by todays standard, but in their day, I wonder if they simply thought of them as means of work transportation.
I'm making an Empire: Total War series on my channel playing as pirates and the Royal Fortune is my flagship. Thanks for posting, it's great to see pirate history being taken seriously for once.
I thoroughly enjoyed this, very proffesional and some fine ships. Really interesting, thank you. Ive named my ship the Royal Fortune in Skull and Bones !
Interesting again. He really liked Royal Fortune as a name. (Decided to comment also some older videos too to perhaps influence the algoritm for the vids favorably.) Cheers!🏴☠️
According to the historical book "A Gross of Pirates : From Alfhilde the Shield Maiden to Alfwein the Big Mouth" , written by Terry Breverton : "Roberts after careening the Good Fortune and renaming her Royal Fortune, he attacked Basataria and then sailed off Tortola where he captured a French brig which he made his new flagship and naming her Royal Fortune before replacing her with the Dutch interloper which also renamed Royal Fortune. But after a while he found to be leakey and abandoned her. After that he made the Sea King (the ship of his old companion , Montigny la Palisse , who rejoined forces with him) his new Royal Fortune" .
I didn't realize the final "Royal Fortune" sank at Port Royal during a hurricane. There is probably nothing left of the ship that would help identify her. Roberts probably just liked the name "Royal Fortune". Maybe calling pirate ships "Revenge" was getting boring by that time! Lol! Enjoyed the video.
In my opinion the only reason why he named all of his flagships the same was because he wanted to show the world that he was seeking fortune and that he wanted to live like a king (free and rich).
I cannot wait for this video to be released, and most importantly I can't wait to see this channel grow to become one of the main channels about piracy. I do have a few questions, however. 1. Let's say I am wanting to find more period correct depictions, paintings, and drawings of pirates and/or pirate ships. Where is the best place to look for them, since Google only shows the common myths, fake flags, ext. 2. I think it is a bit important in terms of seeing the pirate with the most powerful ship. Royal Fortune is said to have 44 guns, and Henry Avery's Fancy was around the same armament. Mainly to see how good of a captain they were in terms of crew size and the means of capturing such a ship (capturing like the RF, and mutiny like on the fancy). Though, were these 40 gunners the largest ships that any pirate sailed in the Golden age? 3. I assume the answer to this one is a hard "No" but other than Bonney and Read, were there any other notable women who were pirates?
1. pinterest, needs a lot of digging 2. neither gun count nor tonnage is really indicative of a ship's effectiveness. there aren't enough details that allow us to speculate, in the end the resource itself is not the important part, its how they were used - buccaneers accomplished much more than the golden age pirates using only rowboats and muskets. look at the actions of pirates rather than their ships which are seldom defined by something more than gun count(without any info about the guns) 3. you guessed right
@@GoldandGunpowder Ah, I gotta use pinterest more then. And I assumed there weren't many notable women as pirates like pop culture wants us to believe. With the conquests pirates and buccaneers did with small ships was no small feature, capturing whole towns and much larger vessels with far fewer men and firepower on a much smaller vessel. However, I was more or less asking if the captains and crew of the Fancy or the larger "Royal Fortune" ships were able to utilize these ships to their full potential, and asking if these were basically the largest ship that golden age pirates had. Not trying to discredit pirates who are much more successful eith smaller vessels, but mainly out of curiosity.
how can we know if they were able to utilize those ships to their "full potential"(what does that even mean?) if we barely have any information available on said ships?
@@GoldandGunpowder ...yeah, good point. Forgive me, I'm just interested in tall ships and especially curious on the larger ones captained by pirates like the Fancy and Royal Fortune (at least, one of the Royal fortunes at least.) Thinking of it now, only one I can see having more of an idea about is a similarly gunned Queen Anne's Revenge, which is said to have 40 guns but the guns found range from 1lb-6lb shot and would be very light guns. And more curiously, these guns came from England and Sweden surprisingly... though I'm not finding a list on how many of each gun they found.
This channel is amazing. I just subscribed to it. I hope we will also see videos about famous pirate hunters, anti-piracy tactics and what classes of ships were used to accomplish these goals. I already watched the video about Frigates and Men o' War of this channel, but I feel like there was a lot more depth that could have been covered.
9:48 Damn I want a model of that. the closest thing to it is the Lindbergh jolly roger kit but it's smaller, doesn't have two decks of cannons and the deck is very flush more so than this ship.........
According to sources the Ranger was sunk in port royal not the Little Ranger (one archaeologist claimed to have found the wreck of the Ranger). Sources : a documentary about port royal with the tittle : "Sin City Jamaica - Pirate Paradise" in 36:04
Season 1 Episode 12, I did a renaming ceremony for my ship. We used an old ceremony script. but had altered it to fit our pirate needs. I was curious to know if you know of any documented pirate ship renaming rituals.
In my opinion Bartholomew Roberts was cruel but also sympathetic and tragic (And before you make me walk the plank let me explain) , just like we learned back in the last video, Roberts worked onboard a slave ship and people who had worked as slavers had been abused by their captains and ended up like them (strict and cruel). Also Roberts lost his former captain and also good friend Howell Davis and later 22 members of his crew after an attack made by the Barbadians when he was elected their new captain (I don't know, but If my friends/crewmates were killed in cold blood and If I was in Roberts' place I'd want revenge too). Conclusion : Bartholomew Roberts was indeed strict , eccentric and cruel , but he had the motive to become such a kind of a man , he lost his friend/mentor and he was abused by his captain while he was still a slaver , making him also a sympathetic and tragic man (before we judge him by his biography, we must understand his psychology and inner problems such as : what went wrong with him and why , I'm not saying that we must forgive him though , the atrocities that he committed can't be forgiven , but still we can feel a little sorry about him)
Im planning on buying a book by William Dampier, because they are still published today, although im not sure which one to get, preferably one that shows a lot how pirates lived, can you suggest one for me?
Question : Is it true that Roberts hanged the governor of Martinique? I'm asking because according to Konstam and Rickman, this was an embellishment by Charles Johnson.
@@GoldandGunpowder A mobile game with anthropomorphised WWII warships, but they just added Royal Fortune, not entirely sure how her 12 pound long guns are going to do when the other ships have massive cannons and missiles.
Here's my pirate meme :
Anne Bonney to Calico Jack after he surrenders to the pirate hunters : (GRETA THUNBERG MOOD) : HOW DARE YOU!!!!!!!!!😡😡😡😡😡
Maybe the Royal Fortune was the friends we made along the way?
I really doubt that in his case
More like the enemies he made along the way
[Groans & then dies a little inside]
Just need to make a 100 part 200 hours pirate documentary for the history channel at this point with quality this high lol. Always good stuff and always informative and well researched!
Or at least a complete Playlist in order:)❤
I disagree, at this point the quality of his research actually exceeds that of the history channel!
It amazes me how in so many of these accounts, how these massive intricate and expensive vessels were used and discarded, burned, sank or otherwise destroyed.
When I watch wooden ships being built like the "Tally Ho", a vessel that would hardly be considered even a sloop, with how much work goes into building one...
It makes the mind construct the world in which these men lived, and how of the worlds work force focused on building sailing ships.
Each one would be considered a work of art by todays standard, but in their day, I wonder if they simply thought of them as means of work transportation.
Probably so it can't be used against them on the future
I figure they did view them like we view semis most are plain but then some will make ur jaw drop
@@celuler22 even the plain ones really are impressive upon further thought. That's a lot of metal and a lot of tiny explosions going 70 mph
Him naming every vessel Royal Fortune gives off the same energy as George Foreman naming all his sons George Foreman.
I think he put george in the girls names too 😅
What if he kept calling them the Royal Fortune because he kept forgetting the names?
he had a google document with all his ships, so i dont think so(confirmed by scholars)
I'm making an Empire: Total War series on my channel playing as pirates and the Royal Fortune is my flagship. Thanks for posting, it's great to see pirate history being taken seriously for once.
Very nice pictures to illustrate all these ships. Thank you for your excellent content.
AWESOME production...very informative!
I thoroughly enjoyed this, very proffesional and some fine ships. Really interesting, thank you. Ive named my ship the Royal Fortune in Skull and Bones !
Interesting again. He really liked Royal Fortune as a name. (Decided to comment also some older videos too to perhaps influence the algoritm for the vids favorably.) Cheers!🏴☠️
According to the historical book "A Gross of Pirates : From Alfhilde the Shield Maiden to Alfwein the Big Mouth" , written by Terry Breverton : "Roberts after careening the Good Fortune and renaming her Royal Fortune, he attacked Basataria and then sailed off Tortola where he captured a French brig which he made his new flagship and naming her Royal Fortune before replacing her with the Dutch interloper which also renamed Royal Fortune. But after a while he found to be leakey and abandoned her. After that he made the Sea King (the ship of his old companion , Montigny la Palisse , who rejoined forces with him) his new Royal Fortune" .
I didn't realize the final "Royal Fortune" sank at Port Royal during a hurricane. There is probably nothing left of the ship that would help identify her. Roberts probably just liked the name "Royal Fortune". Maybe calling pirate ships "Revenge" was getting boring by that time! Lol! Enjoyed the video.
I can recognise where that thumbnail is coming from.
Awesome. can't wait..I always look forward to your posts.
Sincerely, Captain Scurvy Dan.
cheers captain o7
In my opinion the only reason why he named all of his flagships the same was because he wanted to show the world that he was seeking fortune and that he wanted to live like a king (free and rich).
Enjoying the content can't wait to check out your second channel
I might write a pirate storyline sometime. Black Bart is my inspiration for the comic relief's personality.
I cannot wait for this video to be released, and most importantly I can't wait to see this channel grow to become one of the main channels about piracy.
I do have a few questions, however.
1. Let's say I am wanting to find more period correct depictions, paintings, and drawings of pirates and/or pirate ships. Where is the best place to look for them, since Google only shows the common myths, fake flags, ext.
2. I think it is a bit important in terms of seeing the pirate with the most powerful ship. Royal Fortune is said to have 44 guns, and Henry Avery's Fancy was around the same armament. Mainly to see how good of a captain they were in terms of crew size and the means of capturing such a ship (capturing like the RF, and mutiny like on the fancy). Though, were these 40 gunners the largest ships that any pirate sailed in the Golden age?
3. I assume the answer to this one is a hard "No" but other than Bonney and Read, were there any other notable women who were pirates?
1. pinterest, needs a lot of digging
2. neither gun count nor tonnage is really indicative of a ship's effectiveness. there aren't enough details that allow us to speculate, in the end the resource itself is not the important part, its how they were used - buccaneers accomplished much more than the golden age pirates using only rowboats and muskets. look at the actions of pirates rather than their ships which are seldom defined by something more than gun count(without any info about the guns)
3. you guessed right
@@GoldandGunpowder Ah, I gotta use pinterest more then. And I assumed there weren't many notable women as pirates like pop culture wants us to believe.
With the conquests pirates and buccaneers did with small ships was no small feature, capturing whole towns and much larger vessels with far fewer men and firepower on a much smaller vessel. However, I was more or less asking if the captains and crew of the Fancy or the larger "Royal Fortune" ships were able to utilize these ships to their full potential, and asking if these were basically the largest ship that golden age pirates had. Not trying to discredit pirates who are much more successful eith smaller vessels, but mainly out of curiosity.
how can we know if they were able to utilize those ships to their "full potential"(what does that even mean?) if we barely have any information available on said ships?
@@GoldandGunpowder ...yeah, good point. Forgive me, I'm just interested in tall ships and especially curious on the larger ones captained by pirates like the Fancy and Royal Fortune (at least, one of the Royal fortunes at least.)
Thinking of it now, only one I can see having more of an idea about is a similarly gunned Queen Anne's Revenge, which is said to have 40 guns but the guns found range from 1lb-6lb shot and would be very light guns. And more curiously, these guns came from England and Sweden surprisingly... though I'm not finding a list on how many of each gun they found.
This channel is amazing. I just subscribed to it. I hope we will also see videos about famous pirate hunters, anti-piracy tactics and what classes of ships were used to accomplish these goals. I already watched the video about Frigates and Men o' War of this channel, but I feel like there was a lot more depth that could have been covered.
the bio on woodes rogers is coming soon
Ahoy there lads!
9:48
Damn I want a model of that. the closest thing to it is the Lindbergh jolly roger kit but it's smaller, doesn't have two decks of cannons and the deck is very flush more so than this ship.........
I think to him royal fortune was a title instead of a name yknow
I hear Monkey Island Music in the background
According to sources the Ranger was sunk in port royal not the Little Ranger (one archaeologist claimed to have found the wreck of the Ranger).
Sources : a documentary about port royal with the tittle : "Sin City Jamaica - Pirate Paradise" in 36:04
Season 1 Episode 12, I did a renaming ceremony for my ship. We used an old ceremony script. but had altered it to fit our pirate needs. I was curious to know if you know of any documented pirate ship renaming rituals.
nothing that i know of
In my opinion Bartholomew Roberts was cruel but also sympathetic and tragic (And before you make me walk the plank let me explain) , just like we learned back in the last video, Roberts worked onboard a slave ship and people who had worked as slavers had been abused by their captains and ended up like them (strict and cruel). Also Roberts lost his former captain and also good friend Howell Davis and later 22 members of his crew after an attack made by the Barbadians when he was elected their new captain (I don't know, but If my friends/crewmates were killed in cold blood and If I was in Roberts' place I'd want revenge too).
Conclusion :
Bartholomew Roberts was indeed strict , eccentric and cruel , but he had the motive to become such a kind of a man , he lost his friend/mentor and he was abused by his captain while he was still a slaver , making him also a sympathetic and tragic man (before we judge him by his biography, we must understand his psychology and inner problems such as : what went wrong with him and why , I'm not saying that we must forgive him though , the atrocities that he committed can't be forgiven , but still we can feel a little sorry about him)
Im planning on buying a book by William Dampier, because they are still published today, although im not sure which one to get, preferably one that shows a lot how pirates lived, can you suggest one for me?
a new voyage around the world and two voyages to campechy are good
@@GoldandGunpowder Thanks
Question : Is it true that Roberts hanged the governor of Martinique? I'm asking because according to Konstam and Rickman, this was an embellishment by Charles Johnson.
it only ever appeared in general history
Black Bart was a Real Pirate.
How does a brig have 32 cannon
Are they 6 pounders
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Azur Lane players, rise up!
Weeb. HMS Royal Fortune don't exist in that Crap Game, only Wet Dream Weebs could, this ships since as same as USS Constitution
@@ChloeKruegerSenpai Boo hoo, are you angry about the way we enjoy things? Do you need your milkies, and huggies, and sleep, so you can cool down?
@@ChloeKruegerSenpai what you say about azur lane
@@THEVadenK and a 16 inch shell with that too
@@minecraftwizzard2010 Nah. A 18.1 inch shell is better.
Thumbs up if you're adding to the view count via Azur Lane XD
no idea what that is
@@GoldandGunpowder A mobile game with anthropomorphised WWII warships, but they just added Royal Fortune, not entirely sure how her 12 pound long guns are going to do when the other ships have massive cannons and missiles.
@@GoldandGunpowder don't mind that, its just a degenerate weeb game, since that's a fiction ship from that Crap Game, not real, just an Ideal
@@flandrble fucking weeb