Holy Moley!!! Look At All The Female Pirates!!! One Was A Commander Of 50,000 Pirates
All I can say is look at what all of these female pirates have done!!! just goes to show not only boys can be bad ... or heroes!!!
List of Known Women Pirates - Women make good pirates
A Few Female Pirates
Ch'iao K'uo Fό Jλn Chinese legend from c. 600 B.C.
Queen Artemisia of Halicarnassus (in Greece) 480 B.C., Mediterranean.
Elissa ("Dido") c. 470 B.C., Mediterranean, legendary founder of
Carthage.
Queen Teuta of Illyria 232 B.C. to 228 B.C., Adriatic Sea.
Princess Sela c. 420 A.D., Norwegian Viking.
Princess Rusla Norwegian Viking.
Russila and her sister Stikla Norwegian Viking.
Wigbiorg 800s A.D., Viking.
Hetha 800s A.D., Viking.
Wisna 800s A.D., Viking.
Alfhild, a.k.a. Ζlfhild, Alwilda, Alvilda post-850 A.D. (some wrongly say c. 450 A.D.), Swedish Viking.
Ladgerda c. 870 A.D., Viking.
Ζthelflζd, "Lady of the Mercias."
Grace OMalley, a.k.a. Granuaile, Grainne O'Malley 1500s, Atlantic, commanded three galleys and 200 men.
Anonymous 1520-1810, there were hundreds of Chinese female pirates. Whole families of pirates lived at sea, including mothers, wives, daughters, and servant girls. Some were forced, some voluntarily joined and some were born into piracy.
Lady Killigrew 1530-1570, Atlantic.
Mrs. Peter Lambert of Aldeburgh, Suffolk late 1500s.
Elizabeth Shirland (fictional), alias "Cutlass Liz" 1604, Atlantic.
Anonymous Indian Pirate Queen 1680s, Arabian Sea.
La Marquise de Frθsne late 1600s, Mediterranean.
Maria Lindsey (fictional?) early 1700s, Canadian East Coast.
Anne Bonny, aliases Ann Bonn and Fulford, possibly also Sarah Bonny 1719-1720, Caribbean.
Mary Read, alias Mark Read 1718-1720, Caribbean.
Mary Harvey (or Harley), alias Mary Farlee 1725-1726, Carolina.
Mary Crickett (or Crichett) 1728.
Fanny Campbell (fictional).
Rachel Wall 1780s, New England Coast.
Maria Cobham (fictional?) Atlantic.
Sadie the Goat 1800s, New York State.
Charlotte Badger.
Qi Sao (Seventh Elder Sister-in-law) South China Sea, commanded a fleet of 20 ships.
Li (wife of Chen Acheng) early 1800s, South China Sea, was involved in at least 10 robberies at sea with her husband before she was captured and made the slave of a military officer.
Shi Xainggu (better known as Cheng I Sao, Ching Yih Saou, or Zheng Yi Sao) 1801-1810, South China Sea, commanded either five or six squadrons consisting of 800 large junks, about 1,000 smaller vessels, and between 70,000 and 80,000 men and women.
Cai Quin Ma (Matron Cai Quin) died 1804, South China Sea.
Catherine Hagerty 1806, Australia and New Zealand.
Anonymous died 1809 in a sea battle after wounding soldiers, attacking them with cutlasses in both her hands.
Margaret Jordan 1809, Canadian East Coast.
T'ang Ch'en Ch'iao alias "Golden Grace".
Gertrude Imogene Stubbs alias "Gunpowder Gertie, the Pirate Queen of the Kootenays", 1898-1903, Kootenay Lake and river system of British Columbia, Canada.
T'ang Ch'en Ch'iao alias "Golden Grace".
Lo Hon-cho (Honcho Lo) took over command on husbands death in 1921, was a supporter of the Chinese revolution.
Wong 1922, united her 50 ship fleet with Lo Hon-cho's 64 junks.
Lai Sho Sz'en (Lai Choi San) 1922-1939, South China Sea, commanded 12
junks.
P'en Ch'ih Ch'iko 1936, commanded 100 pirates.
Ki Ming (this may be another name for P'en Ch'ih Ch'iko).
Huang P'ei-mei 1937-1950s, leader of 50,000 pirates.
Linda 1980s, Philippines.
A Few Female Privateers
Jeanne de Montfort ("The Flame") 1343, English Channel plundering French ships, fighting with the English for Brittany's independence. (Some list her, Jeanne de Clisson and Jane de Belleville as pirates especially the French.)
Jeanne de Clisson (maiden name Jeanne-Louise de Belleville, Dame de Montaigu; a.k.a. "The Lioness of Brittany") 1343, English Channel plundering French ships.
Mary Read, alias Mark Read 1719, Caribbean, before she became a pirate.
Flora Burn 1741, American East Coast.
Sarah Bishop 1778-1780, this New Yorker was forced to join the crew of a British privateer during the Revolutionary War.
Mary Anne Talbot, alias John Taylor, on a French privateer 1793-1794.
Several black women (probably slaves) were cooks onboard the Duke, a British privateer early 1800s, Pacific.
Anonymous female commander of French privateer La Baugourt 1805, West Indies.
Gender: Female Location: at the second star to the right
Oh, I can't remember her name, but she was a Chinese pirate who took over like 100 smaller pirates and had her own empire for a while and was never caught, but she was famous for it. Wife of someone.... thanks for posting this! You're bringing back old history lessons! Girl power!
*Speaking mind* I wonder what it was like to be a pirate. I don't think they were ever free ... they always had to keep looking over their shoulder and keeping a weather eye on the horizen but ........... they weren't really good people sometimes. They stole, shed blood, were violent, ect. I don't think alot like a favourite T & T characters. I'd rather live in their ficticious, supernatural world of swashbuckling, cheery lives, than face what reality was like for our 16th century sea robbers ... I like fantasy alot more than reality - I WANNA GO TO NEVERLAND!!! sorry, i had to get that, i like world's created by talented minds ... they always seem exciting and adventurous! It seems the characters are never bored, but I suppose there has to be an adventure/quest/event/plot in order to create a story ...... soooo blah blah blah ill go back on topic! ........
But doesn't anybody see what I mean, how sometimes you wanna slip into your characters world .... to escape ours sometimes ..... face something else .....
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Holy Moley!!! Look At All The Female Pirates!!! One Was A Commander Of 50,000 Pirates
Jan 17th, 2007 03:49 AM
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