LONDON, England (CNN)-- More than 1,000 British tourists on a round-the-world cruise were ushered to safety amid fears their ship was being ... Somalia have become a pirate hotspot in recent ...

up until his demise at the hands of the British Navy in 1718. Naturally, Blackbeard's status as the most feared pirate of his time made him and his ship, the Queen Anne's Revenge, ripe for ...

Passengers aboard Cunard’s Queen Anne were ordered to darken their cabins during overnight passage through the notorious Sulu and Celebes seas. Industrial water cannons are used as non-lethal ...

An Italian cruise ship carrying 1,200 passengers and crew fended off a pirate attack near the Seychelles ... Italians as well as Austrians, Swiss and British citizens. Initial reports of the ...

Due to British trade restrictions ... The Jolly Roger is the name given to a flag which identifies a pirate ship. It was typically a black flag that featured either a skull and crossbones ...

At its peak, the pirate alliance in West Cork boasted ... As a result, most pirates avoided attacking British Navy ships and instead focused on the naval fleets of Spain, Portugal, and the ...

After months at sea, Selkirk's ship put in at the island ... Flag that it was common practice in the British colonies to place the body of a captured pirate in a steel cage shaped like a man ...

March 20: After 16 years of tearing up the airwaves the bell finally appeared to toll for pirate station Radio Caroline. Disc jockeys had been pop picking for Caroline since 1964 and had used the good ...