description:The channel dedicated to Mary Read. She was a Caribbean pirate. Dressed as a man, Mary went to sea and later joined the British army, fighting in the War Of The Spanish Succession. She married and settled down as a woman, but dressed back as a man following the death of her husband, later boarding a ship bound for the West Indies.
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- name:Anne Bonny crew
description:The channel dedicated to Anne Bonny. She was one the most famous female pirates. She operated in the Caribbean. She discovered that one of her crew companion, Mark Read, was secretly a woman (Mary Read) and the two became very close.
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- name:Mary Cricket's ship
description:The channel dedicated to Mary Cricket. Toghether with 5 other prisoners Mary Crickett escaped and overpowered the two-man crew of the sloop John and Elizabeth on 12 May 1729. She held the prisoners in the ship's hold, sitting on the hatch to prevent their escape. The pair was released a few days later. The pirates sailed into Chesapeake Bay but before they could raid any other ships, they were captured by HMS Shoreham. Returned to Virginia, they were tried in August 1729, convicted of piracy, and sentenced to hang.
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- name:Flora Burn's island
description:The channel dedicated to Flora Burn. She began her pirate career in 1741 and operated mainly on the East Coast of North America.
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- name:Sayyida al Hurra
description:She was a Moroccan pirate from the 16th century, and controlled the Mediterranean Sea together with Barbarossa. Her name means "noble lady who is free and independent"
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- name:Ching Shih
description:She was a Chinese pirate from the 19th century. She is considered to be the pirate with the largest crew ever assembled (between 20.000 and 40.000 pirates) and died peacefully as a free woman
