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Keel-Hauled
Wow! If you watch the BLACKSAILS series on STARZ this last episode was a doozie! Blackbeard (Edward Teach) was keel-hauled by the Governor of Nassau, Woodes Rogers and it was graphic and true to tale. His keel-Hauling was even on his own vessel, the Queen Annes Revenge. In truth, Teach was killed off Okracoke Island, North Carolina, not by keel hauling, but by gunshot and sword. This form of execution was in fact a rare but necessary punishment if found guilty of a crime (usually killing a fellow shipmate (pirate).
Imagine if you will, being dragged along the bottom of a barnacle strewn hull, from port to starboard and back being shredded by barnacles, drowning, bleeding to death and then fed to the sharks.  The last time I recall seeing keel hauling on television was Errol Flynn's, Captain Blood, but this was filmed in a six gallon aquarium with a doll!! Keel-Hauling...........................a hell of a way to go!!  Bob _/) |
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Takes the fun out of being a pirate, I think.
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This will not be discussed on talk like a pirate day, it's a taboo subject.
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We watched this episode last night. Damn... Seriously...
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I can think of a few good candidates
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That entire era had some pretty brutal practices. Getting drawn and quartered or disembowelment would be horrible ways to go.
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It's a good series. The season opener shot was an underwater view of the gallion broken in half sinking towards long john silver - stunning... I love that show, pirates and loose women, what's not to like..
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