Maritime folklore

English sailor and privateer (c. 1540 – 1596)

1719 novel by Daniel Defoe

Moby-Dick; or, The Whale is an 1851 epic novel by American writer Herman Melville. The book centers on the sailor Ishmael's narrative of the maniacal quest of Ahab, captain of the whaling ship Pequod, for vengeance against Moby Dick, the giant white sperm whale that bit off his leg on the ship's previous voyage. A contribution to the literature of the American Renaissance, Moby-Dick was published to mixed reviews, was a commercial failure, and was out of print at the time of the author's death in 1891. Its reputation as a Great American Novel was established only in the 20th century, after the

Edward Teach (or Thatch; – 22 November 1718), better known as Blackbeard, was an English pirate who operated around the West Indies and the eastern coast of Britain's North American colonies. Little is known about his early life, but he may have been a sailor on privateering ships during Queen Anne's War before he settled on the Bahamian island of New Providence, a base for Captain Benjamin Hornigold, whose crew Teach joined around 1716. Hornigold placed him in command of a sloop that he had captured, and the two engaged in numerous acts of piracy. Their numbers were boosted by the addition to

weather phenomenon

Female pirate

Latin term used for hypothetical continent since ancient times

legendary ghost ship

Welsh pirate (1635-1688)

fictional sailor

Cossack leader (c. 1630 - 1671)

British pirate and explorer (1651-1715)

thumb|A "colossal octopus" attacking ship, Wash (visual arts)|pen and wash by Pierre Denys-Montfort, engraved by Étienne Claude Voysard, 1801

English pirate

Irish monastic saint

British naval officer and explorer (1786–1847)

settlement in Jamaica

English pirate (1682-1720)

British sailor

Spanish corsair (1678–1747)

trade route among three ports or regions

Scottish sailor who was tried and executed for piracy after returning from a voyage to the Indian Ocean

Ship found abandoned in the Atlantic Ocean in 1872

ship with no living people onboard

English captain and pirate

Welsh pirate (1682-1722)

1798 poem by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

pirate Queen of Umaill, chieftain of the Ó Máille clan

mythical or legendary creature, believed to dwell in the sea and often imagined to be of immense size

thumb|upright|"Buccaneer of the Caribbean" from Howard Pyle's Book of Pirates. Buccaneers were privateers and pirates operating in the Caribbean Sea during the 17th and 18th centuries. First established as early as 1625 on northwestern side of Hispaniola after the devastations of Osorio, their heyday was from the Restoration in 1660 until about 1688, during a time when governments in the Caribbean area were not strong enough to suppress them. Martinique was a home port for French buccaneers as well as pirates like Captain Crapeau.

The Merlion () is the official mascot of Singapore. It is depicted as a mythical creature with the head of a lion and the body of a fish. Being of prominent symbolic nature to Singapore and Singaporeans in general, it is widely used to represent both the city state and its people in sports teams, advertising, branding, tourism and as a national personification.

mythological creature in Phoenician and Greek mythology

natural phenomenon, whitish or rosy light during twilight or before sunset

thumb|right|Captain Misson, described by Johnson as founder of Libertalia

mythological creature

English pirate

1784 survey ship

English pirate (1680–1719)

island in Chile

British pirate

French pirate and privateer

pirate Blackbeard's ship

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republic on the New Providence island in the Bahamas ruled by pirates between 1706–1718

British sea captain and governor of the Bahamas (1679–1732)

unidentified object submerged in water

piracy in the Caribbean region from the 1500s to the 1830s

thumbnail|Robinson Crusoe in an 1887 illustration

legend

form of execution for pirates at sea

thumb|240px|right|upright|A Klabautermann on a ship

British pirate

American whaleship from Nantucket, Massachusetts

1810 Pallas-class frigate

Royal Navy Admiral (1653-1702)

medieval Irish narrative

Initiation rite for first crossing of the equator

phantom island in North Atlantic Ocean

French pirate

mercenary and pirate from France