Pirates may not be as prevalent as they once were, but they can still be a nuisance on a cruise ship. This is how ships use ...

The notorious pirate Barbarossa, who eventually went on to be an Admiral in the Ottoman Navy, was surprisingly half Greek.

The two vessels had been trafficking hundreds of enslaved Africans when a navigational error led them astray. They sank off the coast of Costa Rica in the 18th century ...

Marine archaeologists have discovered that two shipwrecks in Costa Rica that were previously believed to be pirate ships are ...

Two of those ships, the Portsmouth Adventure and the Susanna, were also led by Rhode Island pirates: Newport natives Joseph Faro ... sending privateer William Kidd to attack Tew and his associates in ...

However, for years, they were believed to be pirate ships, the museum said in a news release. Fisherpeople who established themselves in the area in 1826 thought this because the ships’ remains ...